ESRC Seminar Series 2008-09

This seminar series explores methodological issues relating to the visual dimensions of business, management and organizational life. Visual Methods explicitly use images in various ways including drawing, photography, published organizational literature, advertisements, video/film and Internet pages. The images are either regarded as a source of data in themselves, as a way of producing data through their use, or a combination of the two. Visual studies of organization and the use of visual methods inorganizations are both under explored areas of business and management studies.

This seminar series has been designed with five aims in mind:

  • To provide a sustained, critical forum to think through the challenges and opportunities in developing visual studies in organizations;
  • To bring together researchers who are studying organizations visually and to draw in expertise on visual matters from wider social science and arts disciplines;
  • To raise awareness of visual studies/ methods among researchers and all stakeholders in academic, cultural and business (profit and not-for-profit) organizations;
  • To inspire doctoral, early-career and established researchers;
  • To provide impetus and momentum for inVisio as an established international research network.

    • Images and Organization

    inVisio evening launch event, 14th October 2008, 7pm-9.30pm, Photographers Gallery, London UK

    Co-ordinators: inVisio founding members

    19:00 Welcome and introduction to inVisio
    19:15 Jonathan Schroeder (University of Exeter): “Snapshot Aesthetics in Brand Culture“
    20:00 Helen Couchman (Photographic Artist): “Workers HCouchsymbol“
    20:45 Claus Noppeney (CNC Berlin/Grenoble Ecole de Management): “Seeing Organizations – Understanding Organizations?“

    Constructing the Visual Organization

    26th November 2008, 10am-4.30pm, Kingswood Room, University of London, Royal Holloway, UK

    Co-ordinator: Dr Jane Davison

    Directions to the event

    09:30 Arrival, registration, coffee
    10:00 Introductions
    10:30 Prof Eric Guthey (Copenhagen Business School) – “Pictures of Big Shots: The Visual Construction of Corporate Leadership”
    11:15 Coffee
    11:45 Dr Karen Dale (University of Leicester) – “Beyond the Frame? The Visual and Lived Experience”
    12:30 Lunch
    13:30 Dr Nina Kivinen (Abo Akademi, Finland) – “Performing the organisation online“
    14:15 Coffee
    14:45 Dr Jane Davison (Royal Holloway, University of London) – “Icon, iconography, iconology: visual branding and the case of the bowler hat” (re the Bradford & Bingley Building Society)
    15:30 Dr Cathy Johnson (Royal Holloway, University of London) – “Branding the Television Corporation: the case of Channel 4“
    16:15 Round-up, announcements, overview of next seminar, glass of wine and departure

    Multidisciplinary Visual Resources

    30th January 2009, 10am-3.45pm, University of Manchester, UK

    Co-ordinator: Dr Chris McLean

    Directions to the event

    10:00 Registration and Coffee
    10:20 Amelia Jones (Art History & Visual Studies) – “Live Art in History: Thinking Across Art History and Performance Studies”
    11:05 Coffee
    11:20 Susie Howarth (Art & Visual) – “Is Everything Going to be Alright”
    12:05 Rafael Alcadipani (Organizational Theory) – “Making the Visual Factory”
    12:50 Lunch
    13:45 Andrew Hill (Visual Culture) – “Visuality, the unseen and the War on Terror”
    14:30 Coffee
    14:45 Albena Yaneva (Architecture & SST) – “Making Statements with Visuals: the Architecture of the Architectural Presentation”
    15:30 Closing & Details of the next seminar
    15:45 Drinks

    ‘Seeing is believing?’ Truth and Representation in Organizational Images

    11th March 2009, 10.45am-4.30pm, University of Surrey, UK

    Co-ordinators: Dr Sam Warren & Dr Caroline Scarles

    Directions to the event

    10:45 Registration and Coffee
    11:00 Dr Sharon Schembri (Marketing) – “The Paradox of a Legend: A Visual Ethnography of Harley-Davidson in Australia” (via web broadcast)
    11:45 Dr Jon Prosser (Education) – “The ethics of visual research methods“
    12:30 Coffee
    12:45 Dr Caroline Scarles (Tourism) – “Where Words Fail, Visuals Ignite: The Use of Visual Autoethnography“
    13:30 Lunch
    14:30 Mr Julian Burton (Delta 7) – “Visual Dialogue in Organisations”
    15:15 Coffee
    15:30 Prof Lee Parker (Accounting and Strategy) – “Photo-Elicitation: An Ethno-Historical Accounting and Management Research Prospect“
    16:15 Closing & Details of the next seminar
    16:30 Drinks

    Event includes PhD Poster Presentation by Miss Vicky Marimuther

    Visual Analysis and Interpretive Methods

    29th May 2009, 10am-4.30pm, University of Exeter, UK

    Co-ordinator: Prof Jonathan Schroeder

    Directions to the event

    10:00 Registration and Coffee
    10:15 Susan Hayward (University of Exeter Department of Film Studies) “A View from Film Studies”
    11:15 Coffee
    11:30 Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson (University of Exeter Business School ) “Critical Visual Analysis: Toward an Ethics of Representation“
    12:15 Norah Campbell (Trinity College Dublin) “An Oblique Look: Derrida and Image Research“
    13:00 Lunch
    14:00 Sam Warren (University of Surrey) and Harriet Shortt (University of Bath) “Analysing Visual Narrative: Space and Identity in an Iconic Profession“
    14:45 Coffee
    15:00 Susanne Tietze (Nottingham Trent University) and Gill Musson (University of Sheffield) “Spaces of Identity: Images of a Home-located Worker“
    15:45 Jan Betts (University of Surrey) “Visual Adaptation of Repertory Grids“
    16:30 Glass of Wine, sponsored by University of Exeter Business School

    Visualizing Impossible Worlds

    18th September 2009, 12pm – 2pm, noon BST (GMT +1), View the flier

    Co-ordinator: Dr Craig Prichard

    This is an interactive web seminar. View the video

    Join the seminar on the 18th here: http://connect.massey.ac.nz/invisio

    Drawing Things Together

    23rd October 2009, 10.15am – 4.30pm, School of Management, Building 8 West, Room 3.14,
    University of Bath, UK

    Co-ordinators: Dr Emma Bell & Prof. Russ Vince

    Directions to the event

    10:15 Registration and Coffee
    10:30 Susan Halford (Southampton University) ?What Do You See? Reflections on Visual Approaches in Organizational Research?
    11:15 Coffee
    11:30 Prof. Burkard Sievers (University of Wuppertal, Germany) ??Perhaps It Is the Role of Pictures to Get In Contact with the Uncanny?: The Social Photo Matrix as a Method to Promote the Understanding of the Unconscious in Organizations?
    12:15 Prof. Russ Vince (University of Bath) ‘Spatial Designs in the Management Classroom’
    13:00 Lunch
    14:00 Dr Tim Strangleman (University of Kent) ?Negotiating Organisational Power: The Politics of Visual Research?
    14:45 Coffee
    15:00 ?Drawing Things Together? ? An Activity Based Conclusion to Seminar Series Involving Drawing: Julian Burton (Delta 7) and Russ Vince
    16:00 Building Capacity in Visual Methods: Discussion led by Emma Bell
    16:30 Glass of wine, sponsored by University of Bath School of Management