Dr Beatriz Acevedo

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Management

Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, Cambridge
Room: LAB 322

UK: 0845 196 2911
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 2911
Email: beatriz.acevedo@anglia.ac.uk

Beatriz Acevedo is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Management at Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University and she is fellow of the Higher Education Academy. At Lord Ashcroft International Business School, she teaches at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels, and she is the module leader for 'International Environmental Management and Sustainability', 'International Intercultural Management' and 'Managing Across Cultures'. Beatriz is passionate about education for sustainable development and currently she is the director of the GoGreen Pilot' 12, a project co-funded by the Higher Education Academy in collaboration with the National Union of Students and the University of Bristol. This project aims at enhancing employment opportunities for undergraduate students while contributing to promote environmental practices in organisations. Beatriz has been collaborating with the Anglia Ruskin Sustainability committee and the Global Sustainability Institute. She joined the university in 2008 and during her career at Anglia Ruskin she has received some important awards - The VC Inspire Award with her GoGreen team (2011); the Early Career Researcher Award in 2012 and the University Teaching Fellowship in 2012.

Beatriz received a PhD in Management from the University of Hull (UK). She also holds a Masters on Sociology (Universidad Nacional de Colombia); a MBA with emphasis in gender by the International Training Centre for Women in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and a bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia). Beatriz has been committed with education for the last twenty years and she is passionate about students' engagement and action learning. Beatriz has developed innovative methodologies for teaching, using art-based techniques and critical approaches to education. In addition, she has extensive experience in academic consultancy at the national, international and regional level in developing a number of projects in social policy; leadership, public policy evaluation and monitoring, sustainable development, women entrepreneurship, sustainability, environmental practices and the use of systems thinking methodologies for policy making processes. She has coordinated and participated in projects funded by the World Bank, the Interamerican Development Bank, the European Social Fund and other international funding bodies.

Beatriz is also an artist and her research interests concern the intersection between aesthetics, arts, visual research methodologies in relation to education for sustainable development. Currently she is co-editing a Special Issue on Vision for the Journal Culture and Organization, and a Special Issue on Arts and Management for the International Journal of Management Practice. She also is member of the Standing Conference for Organizational Symbolism, the British Academy of Management and the European Association of Universities and Colleges for Sustainability.

Current research interests:

Sustainable Development and Sustainable Management
Education for Sustainable Development
Aesthetics, arts and visuality in organizations studies
Critical Management
Public policy

Publications in Academic Journals

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Acevedo, B. and Warren, S. (2012) 'Vision in Organizational Studies', Special Issue on Vision in Organizations, Culture and Organization, vol.18, no.4, pp. 277-284.
Acevedo, B. (2011) 'Memories of La Violencia in Colombia in the work of Colombian artist Doris Salcedo', Special Issue on Arts and Human Rights, Journal of Arts and Communities, vol.2, Issue 2, pp. 105-122.
Acevedo, B. (2011) 'The Screaming Pope: Imagery and Leadership in Two Paintings of Pope Innocent X', Leadership, vol.7, Issue 1, pp. 27-50.
Acevedo, B., Warren, S. and Wray-Bliss, E. (2009) 'The Devil in High Heels: drugs, symbolism and Kate Moss' Culture and Organisation, vol.15 (3-4), September-December, pp. 331-345.
Acevedo, B. (2007) 'Creating the cannabis user: A Genealogical Analysis of Cannabis Reclassification in the United Kingdom', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol.18, Issue 3, pp. 177-186.
Acevedo, B & Common, R (2006) 'Governance and the management of networks in the Public sector: Drugs Policy in the United Kingdom and the case of Cannabis reclassification', Public Management Review, vol. 8, no 3, September, pp. 395-414.

Book Chapters

Acevedo, B. (Forthcoming, 2013) A critical view of sustainability in management education. In Kenneth Jørgensen and Carlos Largacha. "Critical narrative Inquiry - Ethics, sustainability and action". Nova Science Publishers, New York.
Acevedo, B. and Johnson, S. (2013). Sustainability in Practice: Action Learning and the Green Impact Initiative in Editors Richard Atfield and Patsy Kemp. Higher Education Academy: Enhancing education for sustainable development Case Study Publication.
Acevedo, B., with Bonner, C., Johnson, S. and Malevicius, R. (2012). Students' [passionate] engagement with processes of greening the campus. In Leal, W. (Ed.) "Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons". Frankfurt, Peter Lang Scientific Publishers. Pp. 374-383
Acevedo, B. and Common, R. (2010) Policy Networks in Practice, the Case of Drugs in the United Kingdom. Chapter 21, in Osborne, S. P. (Ed.) The New Public Governance? Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice. London: Routledge. Pp. 394-412
Acevedo, B. and Carreira, A. M. (2010) Hybrid Cities: Resistance practices in the city of Medellin-Colombia. In Sonda, G. Coletta, C. and Gabbi, F. Urban Plots, Organizing Cities. Farnham: Ashgate. Pp. 49-66

Key Presentations and Conference Papers

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Acevedo, B., Malevicius, R. Rippin, A., Stowell, A., and Taylor, C. GoGreen Pilot'12: Engaging students on sustainability. To be presented at the National Union of Students Annual Meeting. July 2013.
Key Speaker at the Research Seminar of the School of Management, University of Bristol, December 13 2011. "Student [passionate] engagement with sustainability: is this possible?"
Key Speaker at the University Human Resources Development Forum. Anglia Ruskin University. January 21 2011. Chelmsford, UK. Preliminary results of an investigation about motivations and incentives for environmentally friendly practices in Higher Education.
Key Speaker at Seminar on Organising Cities, University of Trento, July 13, 2009. Acevedo, B. (2009) Hybrid Cities: Sustainable urban development in the case of Medellin (Colombia). Progetto Penelope.
Co-Organiser of the 28th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism on the topic of "Vision", Lille (France) in collaboration with University of Surrey and the Institute d?Administration d'Enterprises. International Conference with more than 150 participants.
Conference Papers
Acevedo, B. and Weston, A. Arts and Sustainability: A creative entrepreneurial perspective. Paper to be presented at the 30th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism about Creative Deconstruction, Poland, July, 2013.
Acevedo, B., Malevicius, R. Rippin, A., Stowell, A., and Taylor, C. GoGreen Pilot'12: Engaging students on sustainability and employability. To be presented at the Higher Education Annual Conference, July 2013.
Acevedo, B. and Willis, R. The rolling legacy of motoring in management studies. Paper presented at the 30th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism about Organising through displacement, travel and movement. Barcelona, July, 2012.
Acevedo, B. and Malevicius, R. Greening the automobile industry: notes from a case study of two companies associated to car racing in the United Kingdom. Paper to be presented at the 30th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism about Organising through displacement, travel and movement. Barcelona, July, 2010.
Acevedo, B. and Rust, F. (2012) Sustainability Beyond The Campus: Students Working As Eco-Auditors, The Case Of Showtrax and The Green Impact. Paper to be presented at the British Academy of Management conference. Cardiff, September, 2012.
Acevedo, B. An aesthetic education for sustainability: a potential path for critical engagement? Paper for the Arts of Management Conference: Creativity and Critique. York, September, 2012
Acevedo, B. Student Passionate Engagement with processes of greening the campus. At the World Sympoisum on Sustainable Development in Universities. Parallel event to Rio+20. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 4-6, 2012.
Acevedo, B. Discrimination and Shibboleths: A view on the work of the artist Doris Salcedo and its implications for organizations. Paper presented at the 29th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Istanbul, Turkey. July, 2011.
Acevedo, B. Images of Leadership: An analysis of two paintings of the Pope Innocent X by Velazquez and Bacon. Presented at the 28th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Lille, France, July 17/2010.
Acevedo, B. and Carreira A. M. (2008) Urban and sustainable development in Latin America. Paper presented at the 26th Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, SCOS, July 1-4, 2008 Manchester UK.

Other Publications

Acevedo, B. and Warren, S. Editors of the Conference Proceedings of the 28th Standing Conference on organisational Symbolism on VISION (July 2010). Published electronically by University of Surrey: epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2689
Acevedo, B. (2008) Ten Years of Plan Colombia. In Briefing Papers Drugs Policy. The Beckley Foundation, International Drugs Policy Consortium.
Acevedo, B. and Roomi, M. (2007) Transforming contacts into resources: Women entrepreneurs in the East of England. Publication by the Centre for Women's Enterprise. University of Bedfordshire.

Editorial Activities

Co-editor of the Special Issue of Arts and Management. International Journal of Management Practice. Forthcoming, 2013.
Co-editor of the Special Issue of Vision in Organization Studies. Culture and Organization. September. 2012. Vol. 18 No. 4

Teaching Grants

Director of Go Green Pilot'12. Collaborative Teaching Grant led by Anglia Ruskin University, in collaboration with National Union of Students and University of Bristol. August 2012-December 2013.