When: Thursday, November 28, 2024, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMWhere: Online
Join us for a deep dive into personal and communal mental health sustainability in leadership. Our panel of experts, Professor Bridget Escolme, Professor Nigel Spenser and Dr Mustafa B. Ozturk will explore how compassion, rather than resilience alone, can be a powerful leadership tool in addressing the mental health needs of workplaces and communities.
Professor Escolme came to Queen Mary's Department of Drama in 2005, after a first academic post at the Workshop Theatre, School of English, University of Leeds; she undertook my MA and PhD at Leeds too. Her PhD explored the relationship between performer and audience in Shakespeare production and she has been interested in how theatre can address and include audiences ever since. More recently, her research has turned to histories of emotions and the arts and mental health; she has published on the depiction of ‘mad’ figures in early modern drama, and how contemporary theatrical culture deals with those depictions.
Her current academic administrative role is Director of Student Support in the Department of Drama and she is a Mental Health First Aider for the School of English and Drama.
Find out more about Professor Escolme and her work.
Dr Ozturk operates in the broad area of human resource management and organisational behaviour, with a primary specialisation in workplace equality, diversity and inclusion. His research aims to delineate privileges and disadvantages associated with gender, gender identity, sexual orientation as well as race and ethnicity in organisations.
Originally from Turkey, Dr Ozturk spent ten years in the US, where he attained a BA in Economics and Politics from New York University, and subsequently an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago, having studied the political economy of human capital investment. Dr Ozturk started his academic career in the UK at Middlesex University Business School before moving to the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London.
Find out more about Dr Mustafa and his work.
Professor Spencer has been working closely with the Law School since 2014 and, co-created the School’s innovative Law in Practice programme, and is Director of Queen Mary's Hub for Professional Practice.
Previously he has held senior talent development roles at international law firms and was responsible for designing and implementing firm-wide talent development strategies. A qualified Executive Coach, one major focus for Professor Spencer was associate and partner development and assessment, often embedding mentoring and coaching into programmes in order to create sustainable behaviour change.
At the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, he contributed to executive leadership programmes and practitioner research projects, created the School’s award-winning practitioner research series, and led projects looking at the future of Executive Education and how the design of educational programmes leads to learning impact and behavioural change.
Find out more about Professor Spencer and his work.