The ASAC Experience: Making the Most of Academic Conferences

Academic conferences are a great opportunity to raise your profile as a researcher. You might be asking some of these questions: What benefits do academic conferences offer? How should you select a conference for participation? If you have already dipped your feet into conferences, how could you become more involved and further leverage this platform to develop your research career?

The Graduate Research Programs Student Society is pleased to invite you to our brown bag series, The ASAC Experience: Making the Most of Academic Conferences. The event will be recorded.

The brown bag session counts toward Sprott research seminar participation.

Our keynote speaker, Dr. Kunle Akingbola, VP Membership and Marketing, ASAC Board of Directors, Associate Professor, Human Resource Management & Organizational Behaviour, Lakehead University, will discuss the benefits of participating in the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC).

Dr. Kumle Akingbola
VP Membership and Marketing, ASAC Board of Directors
Associate Professor, Human Resource Management & Organizational Behaviour, Lakehead University

Dr. Kunle Akingbola is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management & Organizational Behaviour in the Faculty of Business Administration at Lakehead University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Dr. Akingbola’s other graduate degrees include an MBA, Masters in Industrial Relations & Personnel Management (HRM), and MA, Workplace Learning & Change. He is a Certified Human Resources Leader(CHRL).

Dr. Akingbola’s intellectual interests focus on the complex interactions in the environment that influence strategic change and human resource management in nonprofit and healthcare organizations. His research also explores the organizational dynamics of social purpose enterprises. Dr. Akingbola is the lead author of the book “Change Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Practice” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and the author of “Managing Human Resources for Nonprofits” (Routledge, 2015). He has published book chapters and articles in leading international journals such as International Journal of Human Resource Management and Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Akingbola served in management roles in HR and consulting. In addition to his research and teaching, Dr. Akingbola is actively involved in professional and community activities.  He was previously an Associate Editor of the journal Nonprofit Management & Leadership. Dr. Akingbola is also on the board of directors of Association for Nonprofit & Social Economy Research (ANSER) and two community organizations.  He established and facilitates the HR Nonprofit Network.

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