Newsround: Running inclusive events - new book alert - Hagley announces grants & fellowships
The BAM-CABS All Welcome Guide - Global Enterprise in Australia - Hagley Exploratory Grants and H.B. du Pont Fellowship
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This week’s Newsround features the BAM-CABS All Welcome guide to running inclusive events as a follow-up to my rant last week. As incoming president of the Association of Business Historians in the UK, I find this a key resource for the field to continue building on its reputation of being a friendly and welcoming group of scholars. There is also a new business history book out with Routledge about Global Enterprise in Australia, and the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, announces the recipients of its generous grants and fellowships, with further information to bid.
Contents
BAM-CABS Guide to running inclusive events
New book alert! Global Enterprise in Australia
Hagley Center Fellowships and Grants announcement
1. All Welcome Guide to inclusive, accessible and sustainable events
After my rant last week, a colleague and friend reminded me that there are plenty of free resources out there to support people who actually want to run inclusive, accessible and, increasingly, sustainable events. The key one is the brief “All Welcome” guide published jointly by the British Academy of Management and Chartered Association of Business Schools. It’s free to download, just follow the link: https://www.bam.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/inclusive-accessible-and-sustainable-events.html
2. New book alert: Global Enterprise in Australia
Global Enterprise in Australia
International Business Down Under since Federation
By Simon Ville, Pierre van der Eng, André Sammartino, David Merrett, Monica Keneley
ABSTRACT
For two centuries, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have arrived in waves on Australia’s shores. Highly visible and influential household names among them – Ford, IBM, Kodak, Electrolux, ANZ – but also many smaller, lesser-known enterprises. Foreign MNEs in Australia today account for almost half of our top 2,000 firms and control over A$1.4 trillion of assets. There is much we do not understand about these important institutions, why they chose to invest here, how they entered, and why some firms survived for long periods, while others exited.
The history of MNEs, more than most topics, is inextricably connected to international experience. Across half a century of research, their history has emerged as a vibrant field of investigation in North America, Europe, and, increasingly, Asia. MNE activity in Australia, briefly referenced in some of these studies, formed an important part of the global presence of many firms. This is the first history of foreign MNEs in twentieth-century Australia, filling a major gap in the economic and business history literature of Australia and of the history of international business globally. It integrates the important and distinctive Australian experience with an extensive international and comparative scholarship on big business and MNEs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
International Business in Australia Since Federation
The Contours of Multinational Enterprises and Their FDI in Australia Since 1900
Australia as a Multinational Host
The Evolution of Multinational Enterprise Engagement with Australia
The Design and Management of Australian Subsidiaries
3. Hagley Center Fellowships and Grants announcment
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware is pleased to announce the recipients of grants and fellowships awarded April 2026. Please note that the next deadline for applications for the exploratory grant and Henry Belin du Pont is June 30th. Here is the link on Hagley Museum and Library’s website for further info and to apply….https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships.
Exploratory Grant
Louis Bissieres, Associate Professor, Universite Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle: Banking in the Countryside in the Early Republic
Hsiao-Yun Chu, Professor, San Francisco State University: Exquisite Boredom: Ladies fancy work boots and the birth of the leisure crafts
Charlie Colenutt, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge: Multinational Contractors and the Political Economy of Anglo-American Imperialism, 1880-1918
Adia Cullors, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University: Black Powder: Medicine and Militancy in the Black Atlantic, 1741-1897
Adam Fertig, Teaching Assistant, NYU: Development’s groundwork: American business and environmental review, 1970s-1990s
Leo Garofalo, Professor, Connecticut College: Coca and Opium Counterpoint: Economic Racialization of Products and Laborers in the Andes
Sofia Grant, Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University: Designing for Autoimmune Disease: Universal Design, Patients’ Knowledge, and Embodied Experience in Twentieth Century America
Henry Jacob, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University: A Corridor of Capitalism: A History of Ships and Shipping through the Panama Canal
Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Ph.D. Candidate, George Washington University: A Global Environmental History of U.S. Space Infrastructure
Kathleen McHugh, Ph.D. Candidate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Home Economics is the Solution to all Your Problems: Home Economics, Feminism, and Activism in Twentieth-Century Americs
Flor Isabel Palomino Arana, Independent scholar: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Photographers and their Aesthetics, Techniques and Subjects, Peru, Chile and United States
Mariela Pichardo, Yale University: DuPont (China) Inc.
Hannah Scott Deuchar, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London: The Arabic Typewriter: Toward a Global History
Andrew David Allan Smith, Associate Professor, Birmingham Business School: Federalizing the Quarter: SEC Reporting Rules and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy of the 1970s
Patrick Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University: Signal by Signal
H.B. du Pont Fellowship
Peter Astras, Assistant Teaching Professor, Syracuse University: The Life and Mind of Hudson Maxim
Jasper Cattell, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University: The World Without Work? The Regulatory Politics of the Work/Environment Divide
Nida Kadayifci, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University: The Small Business Smokescreen: A Historiographical intervention into Employment Law Exemptions through Family and Medical leave Act, 1984-`993
Anca Lasc, Associate Professor, Pratt College: Toward a Unified Aesthetic of Window Design--the Art, Science, and Business Venture of Window Dressing at the turn of the Twentieth Century
Jonathan Robins, Associate Professor, Michigan Technological University: Forgotten Fibers: Biomaterials in Industry before and after Synthetics
Yen Nie Yong, Senior Lecturer, Kyoto University: Unnaturally Caring: Shaping Female Bodies for Service Labor in Southeast Asia
Brandywine Dissertation Fellowship
Charlotte Leib, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University: An Environmental and Energy History of the New Jersey Meadowlands
Exploratory Grants
Hagley Exploratory Research Grants
These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Applicants should reside more than 50 miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30 and October 31
Henry Belin du Pont Fellowships
These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the collections of the Hagley Library. They are awarded for the length of time needed to make use of Hagley collections for a specific project. The stipends are for a maximum of eight weeks and are pro-rated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than 50 miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within 50 miles. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30 and October 31
The Brandywine Dissertation Fellowships
Brandywine Dissertation Fellowship is designed for graduate students who are actively working on their dissertation. A residential fellowship for three to four months duration, it provides $10,000 and free housing on Hagley’s grounds along with an office and other amenities. Brandywine Dissertation fellows are expected to work at Hagley at least four days weekly and to participate in events organized by Hagley’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society.
We invite applications from Ph.D. candidates whose research on important historical questions uses Hagley’s research collections. Applications should demonstrate superior intellectual quality, present a persuasive methodology, and show that the dissertation makes significant use of Hagley research materials. Research in Hagley’s collections may take place prior to the fellowship residency. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with Hagley reference staff at askHagley@Hagley.org prior at to submitting their dossier.
Application Deadline: March 31