PDW on Building Bridges: Enhancing Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration in Career Research
Friday, July 25, 2025 | 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM CEST at Bella Center, Hall B - B6-m51,
What does it take to create meaningful collaboration between researchers and practitioners? How can we ensure that academic insights translate into real-world impact-and vice versa?
Don't miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and build toward more impactful research-practice collaborations.
This PDW addresses the ongoing disconnect between research and practice and we explore together ideas on how we could contribute to bridging this gap.
Through expert-facilitated roundtables, real-world examples, and peer discussion, we will:
· Explore the causes and implications of the research-practice gap
· Discover how successful collaborations are built and sustained
· Reflect on our own collaborations and opportunities
· Develop ideas for research with real-world impact
Our facilitators:
Ans De Vos (Antwerp Management School)
Denise Jepsen (Macquarie Business School)
Kathleen Vangronsvelt (Antwerp Management School)
Simone Kauffeld (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
Jan Laurijssen (SD Worx & Univ. of Antwerp)
Who should attend:
Early-career to senior academics, HR and OB scholars, and practitioner-scholars seeking to create research that matters and builds bridges across domains.
Registration
Pre-registration is required. The workshop is in-person only, with limited spots (max. 40 participants).
Deadline: June 30, 2025 – applications reviewed on a rolling basis, first-come, first-served. To apply, email domingo.valero@hslu.ch with:
1. Full Name
2. Affiliation
3. Role: Researcher, Practitioner, or Hybrid
4. Brief experience with practitioner-researcher collaborations (3-5 sentences)
5. Why you're interested in participating and what you hope to gain (3-5 sentences)
We are looking forward to welcoming you there!
The Organizing Committee
Madeleine Haenggli, Noemi Nagy & Domingo Valero
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Domingo Valero
Domingo Valero Person
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