Management School

The OSCM PhD Summer School 

Organised by the Management School's Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) Group and the Centre for Supply Chain Research (CSCR), the PhD Summer School provides a platform for postgraduate research students to learn different methodologies and how to apply them in the OSCM context.

The Summer School consists of several sessions delivered by expert faculty on the most relevant approaches to study OSCM, including logistics and transportation modelling, as well as tips on how to design impactful research and develop your career as an OSCM researcher. 

Our Summer School is an ideal opportunity for any PhD students (from OSCM fields and non-OSCM fields) interested in learning OSCM-related research methodologies.

The 2026 ECR Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) aims to provide a platform for Early Career Researchers (ECRs), including PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty members such as lecturers and assistant professors, to connect with peers, exchange ideas, and discuss research in a supportive and collegial environment. The conference will feature multiple parallel presentation sessions, enabling ECRs to present their research and receive constructive feedback from peers and senior scholars. It will also include panel discussion sessions covering topics relevant to ECRs, such as research publication and career development. 

We are delighted to invite you to the 21^st New Institutionalism Workshop (NIW), to be held at the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS), UK.

The NIW is an annual event aiming to unite scholars from diverse disciplines, countries, and academic traditions to push the theoretical and empirical frontiers of research on institutions in a broad sense.

The NIW provides an open forum for experienced academics, early career scholars, as well as doctoral students to meet and have engaging conversations, for reflections on existing work, as well as sharing innovative research ideas and approaches. 

We are delighted to welcome you to the 11th Annual Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference, which will be hosted at the University of Liverpool Management School, 7-10th April, 2026.

As a research community, this conference aims to advance our understanding of entrepreneurship-as-practice, foster network ties, facilitate collaborative writing relationships, and build a strong community of practice scholars.

Building on this tradition, our theme for the eleventh edition of this conference will be “Entrepreneuring and Knowing From the Inside: A Dialogue between entrepreneurship processes and practices”. Find out more here:

Keynote speakers

• Professor Jeffrey McMullen (Imperial Business School, UK)

• Professor Raghu Garud (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

• Professor Boukje Cnossen (Leuphana University, Germany)

• Albert Read, Executive Chairman of The Evening Standard and Former    Managing Director of Condé Nast Britain.