This workshop provides an in-depth exploration of strategies for building a sustainable and impactful academic career. Participants will engage with topics including research portfolio development, publication planning, grant acquisition, interdisciplinary collaboration, and professional networking. The session emphasizes aligning academic goals with institutional priorities, leveraging digital scholarship tools, and navigating the evolving global higher education landscape. Through interactive discussions and reflective exercises, attendees will learn how to design personalized career roadmaps, strengthen scholarly identity, and cultivate leadership in teaching, research, and service. Ideal for doctoral candidates and early-career academics aspiring to long-term academic excellence.

This workshop focuses on promoting mental, emotional, and professional wellbeing among academicians in today's demanding research and teaching environments. Participants will explore strategies for managing workload, maintaining work–life balance, and fostering resilience in academia. The session highlights mindfulness practices, time management techniques, and approaches to prevent burnout while sustaining motivation and creativity. Through reflective exercises and peer discussion, attendees will learn to identify stress triggers, build supportive academic networks, and cultivate positive habits for sustainable productivity. Designed for faculty, researchers, and doctoral candidates, the workshop encourages holistic wellbeing as a foundation for long-term academic success and fulfillment.

This interactive workshop empowers academicians to develop a strong professional identity and personal brand in the academic and research community. Participants will learn how to effectively communicate their expertise, research impact, and academic values across digital platforms, including academic websites, social media, and professional networks. The session covers visual identity, research storytelling, and strategic online presence management. Through hands-on activities, attendees will craft personal branding statements, optimize profiles, and align their scholarly reputation with institutional and global visibility goals. Designed for faculty and researchers, this workshop bridges academic credibility with modern visibility and influence in academia.

This workshop focuses on helping PhD scholars and early career researchers in business management understand and strengthen their academic identity. As emerging scholars navigate research choices, supervisory relationships, teaching responsibilities, and institutional expectations, their sense of scholarly identity becomes crucial for long-term career development. The session introduces key dimensions of academic identity—research, teaching, service, and professional presence—and guides participants in reflecting on their values, interests, and disciplinary positioning. Through interactive activities such as identity mapping, short writing exercises, and mentoring circles, participants learn how to articulate their scholarly voice, communicate their research identity, and manage identity tensions arising from publication pressures, interdisciplinary work, or evolving research interests. The workshop also emphasizes building a strategic digital presence and fostering supportive academic networks. By the end of the session, participants will have greater clarity and confidence in presenting themselves as developing scholars within the business management field.

This workshop explores how PhD scholars and early career researchers can build effective, healthy, and productive relationships with their academic supervisors and vice versa. The scholar–supervisor relationship significantly shapes research progress, academic identity, well-being, and long-term career trajectories. The session provides a structured understanding of key aspects such as communication norms, expectations management, authorship practices, feedback processes, and boundary setting. Participants will engage in reflective exercises to identify their own needs, working styles, and challenges in supervision. Through interactive discussions and case-based scenarios, the workshop addresses common tension points—misaligned expectations, conflicting priorities, independence versus guidance, and emotional labour in supervision. Strategies for navigating power dynamics, fostering open dialogue, and cultivating professional trust are emphasized. The workshop also highlights how scholars can transition from dependency to autonomy while maintaining a constructive mentor–mentee relationship. By the end, participants gain practical tools to manage supervision proactively and develop resilient, collaborative academic partnerships.

We invite PhD scholars and Early-Career Researchers to participate in a hands-on workshop on AI for Research Integrity, a timely exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping ethical and responsible research practices. As academic work becomes more complex and data-driven, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and credibility is more important than ever. This workshop will demonstrate how AI tools can support you at every stage of the research journey—from designing stronger studies and detecting methodological gaps to improving data quality, spotting anomalies, and maintaining clear audit trails. You will also learn how AI enhances manuscript integrity through advanced plagiarism checks, citation verification, stylistic analysis, and image forensics that identify manipulation with far greater precision than traditional methods. Beyond publication, we will discuss how journals increasingly use AI to screen submissions and support reviewers, and how you can align your work with these evolving standards. Equally important, the session will address responsible and ethical AI use, ensuring transparency and preventing overreliance. Whether you are preparing a thesis, conducting empirical research, or navigating early publications, this workshop will equip you with practical skills and future-ready tools to strengthen your scholarly practice and uphold the highest standards of research integrity.