As Chair of the British Academy of Management, Professor Katy Mason has been developing and putting in place the first strategic aim in the British Academy of Management’s Strategy ‘BAM2024': 'To put Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) ‘best practice’ in place across BAM's portfolio of activities'

As Professor Mason explained, “in 2019 we elected our first ever Vice-Chair EDI of our Academy, Professor Martyna Sliwa, and we are now making a real difference.”

Professor Martyna Sliwa, has been working with Dr Scott Taylor, Professor Melissa Tyler, and Dr Shalini Vohra, to understand how to best organise inclusive events and on 30 November 2021, the British Academy of Management and the Chartered Association published these findings in the form of an accessible ‘All Welcome’ guide to inclusive event organising.

The guide has already been shared with national Business and Management School Deans, and internationally with BAMs partner learned societies, including the Academy of Social Sciences, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Management, the Irish Academy of Management, the Italian Association of Management (SIMA) and International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management.

Professor Mason explained, “this EDI work has been driven by our now President, Professor Nic Beech, over more than ten years, and today continues to ensure our Academy is inclusive and welcoming. Importantly it also reflects our commitment to helping influence and spread best practice beyond the boundaries of our Academy and more broadly across the sector - that’s why we are making the event organising guidelines available to everyone. We are sure that people beyond the business and management field - in all sorts of academic and practitioners roles - will find the ‘All Welcome’ guide really valuable.”