About this Event
The Ironies That Structure Scholarly Life: Playfulness, Reflexivity and the (Re)Construction of Scholarly Identity
Date: 14 May 2026
Time: 10.00am–5.00pm
Venue: Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Facilitated by:
Dr David Higgins (University of Liverpool, Board Member of ECSB), Dr Trudie Murray (Munster Technological University, Country VP of ECSB), Gavan Drohan (Trinity College Dublin)
This PDW explores the complexities of building and sustaining a scholarly career in entrepreneurship and wider business management fields in a higher education environment increasingly shaped by performance pressures, metrics, and institutional expectations. It invites participants to reflect critically on what it means to become and remain a scholar, and how scholarly identity is formed, challenged, and renewed over time.
Designed for early-, mid-, and later-career scholars and researchers, the event will create space to think about academic purpose, wellbeing, identity, and agency. Through keynote inputs, creative reflexivity, and active participation, the day will encourage participants to consider how they might imagine (re-imagine) and shape their own academic futures while engaging with wider questions about entrepreneurship scholarship and professional development.
This ECSB-funded event, supported by INTRE, is free and open to all. We warmly encourage non-members to join ECSB and engage with its wider scholarly community (https://ecsb.org/join-ecsb/)
Schedule
9.30 – 10.00 - Registration, tea and coffee
10.00 - 10.10 - Welcome.
10.15 – 11.00 - “Educaring from the Heart: How to Nurture Your Wellbeing and Rediscover Your Purpose in Education” - Led by Dr Deirdre McGillicuddy (University College Dublin)
11.00 – 11.10 - Tea / Coffee
11.10 – 11.30 - Activity 1 – “Through the Looking Glass”
11.30 – 12.15 - “Getting to where we need to – a gender perspective” Led by Dr. Briga Hynes (University of Limerick)
12.15 – 13.00 - Activity 2 – “Picking up the Pieces”
13.00 – 13.40 - Lunch
13.45 – 14.30 - “Playing the GAME understanding what others want” shhhhhh” Led by – Professor Gary Kerr (Atlantic Technological University)
14.30 – 15.00 - A Creative Pause – Vocalising what we are Anticipating - “Hanging thoughts”
15.30 – 16.00 - Panel Discussion – “Looking Beyond Naivety – New Scholars filling Old Boots”
16.00 – 16.15 - Closing Comments / Thoughts
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Trinity Business School, 182 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
EUR 0.00
