Getting EU Funding for Historical Research in Business and Management
Hosted by the BAM Management and Business History Special Interest Group
Are you looking for research funding for your historical project in business and management? Do you dream of getting a big grant to do that ambitious project you have been thinking about for a long time? Join us for our next Management & Business History SIG webinar with Dr Marie Huber, University of Marburg, Germany, who has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starter Grant in African Business History.
ERC grants are some of the largest, most prestigious research grants offered by the European Commission and successful applicants can put together research teams to pursue a five-year research project of their own design. Extremely competitive and highly sought after, few economic and business historians have successfully bid for an ERC.
Marie’s interdisciplinary project, MAGIC, investigates the long-term history of factories built by the multinational company Bata in Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe in the late colonial period and which are still operating today. This research addresses the understudied area of industrialisation and manufacturing in Africa, particularly the lack of a comprehensive understanding of the local impact of these factories and the mechanisms behind their influence. The project’s innovative approach combines historical anthropology, geography, global history, and quantitative economic analysis to bridge the gap between micro-level factory studies, meso-level political and business histories, and macro-level development scholarship.
By focusing on these Bata factories, MAGIC aims to explain how manufacturing facilities have both shaped and been shaped by colonial and postcolonial contexts, adapted to and transformed local communities and environments, while giving rise to competing visions of modernization and economic development, and show what measurable impacts these factories have had on local economic indicators.
Join us for Marie’s talk about how her strategies and advice around gaining grant funding from international funders, and how to start thinking about those really big grant applications.
Provider Information
BAM Management and Business History Special Interest Group
Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to Sections A1 and A2, as detailed in the BAM Framework.
Speakers
Dr Marie Huber
Postdoctoral Fellow, Philipps-Universität, Marburg