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25 outstanding researchers win inaugural Excellence Awards 2024

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Twenty five researchers have won awards in the first Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Research Excellence Awards.

Twenty five researchers from across Oxford Saïd were last night named winners in the School’s inaugural Research Excellence Awards 2024 and Dean's Excellence Research Awards at a formal ceremony in the historic great hall of Oxford’s Keble College. The cheers and celebration at the dinner speak to the fact that research is a collaborative effort and everyone's work stands on the shoulders of others. Faculty from across the career spectrum - from DPhil students to postdoctoral researchers to established scholars came together to celebrate their colleagues' success.

Last night's ceremony came at the end of an exciting and thought-provoking Research Excellence Day at the School, during which the whole Oxford Saïd community celebrated and showcased the range of research being explored by faculty and students. All 16 finalists for the Research Excellence Awards had the opportunity to talk about their research and delivered interesting and engaging explanations.

The six Research Excellence Awards 2024 winners are: Dize Dinçkol [now at Birkbeck, University of London], Alex Rustler, Bige Kahraman Alper, Niels Johannesen, Agni Orfanoudaki and Pedro Bordalo. They are all current or former researchers with Oxford Saïd and they scooped prizes for Early Career Research, Established and Senior Scholars and Research Impact. Two, Niels and Pedro, were also winners of a new award introduced by our Dean, Soumitra Dutta, to honour researchers who have produced and published outstanding research consistently over the last five years. 

The 18 other Dean's winners are: Daniel Armanios, Marya Besharov, Michael Gill, Rhonda Hadi, Matthias Holweg, Kejia Hu, Timothy Jenkinson, Trudi Lang, Tom Lawrence, Sally Maitlis, Tom Noe, Juliane Reinecke, Violetta Splitter, Andrew Stephen, Jonathan Trevor, Eero Vaara, Richard Whittington, and Eric Zhao.

And another award, the Tim Morris Award, was presented to Alfie Jackson, winner of the Best Doctoral Student Paper in Management. The award is named in honour of emeritus professor Tim Morris and was made possible by his former doctoral students, including Michael Smets who presented the award to Alfie. Christopher Hyland was winner of the Best Doctoral Student Paper in Finance.

It has been a great day, and an impressive day. To celebrate the achievements of faculty colleagues, who have been producing outstanding research...we have created a special award - the Dean's Research Excellence award. Many congratulations to all award winners.

Soumitra Dutta

Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management

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Throughout the day there were fascinating talks and explanations of the research being undertaken at Oxford Saïd. Scholars were able to deliver talks about their research in an amazing array of areas, from social media marketing to the impact of monetary policy on inequality, from shareholder risk to middle managers’ struggles and the impact of happiness on productivity and corporate workarounds.

As well as showcasing the research of individual faculty members, there were highly-popular sessions about the difficulties of getting published and creating impact, led by leading members of the School.

Research Excellence Awards 2024

Early career winners

Dize Dinçkol was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation, based in the School. Her research, into Banking Regulation and regulatory standards, also involved the School’s Professor Pinar Ozcan who was able to share the research.

Alex Rustler is a current postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation. The research for which he won a prize is The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations.

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Established Scholar

Bige Kahraman Alper, Associate Professor of Finance, won this category for her research: ES Risks and Shareholder Voice, (environmental and social risk).

Senior Scholar

Niels Johannesen, Director for the University’s Centre for Business Taxation, is the winner in this category for his research on monetary policy and inequality.

Research Impact in Practice

Agni Orfanoudaki, Associate Professor of Operations Management, won her award for her work in researching machine learning (ML) and risk – looking at real-life applications of ML and the potential risks.

Scholarly Impact

Pedro Bordalo, Professor of Financial Impact, won this category for his important research on Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles.

Other finalists’ research, included work on behaviours, middle managers, happiness, patient waiting times, social media marketing, strategies for tackling complex problems and common ownership.

 

Report of Research Excellence Day 2024.