General inquiries, questions, comments, thoughts, or interested in getting engaged within the community? Send an email to info@organizingextremecontexts.org
Below you find a description of the current activities that is organized by the community. In addition to these there are, of course, special issues, conference tracks, seminars, workshops and what not.
If you have an idea of an activity that would fit a ”community format”, please reach out and we can look into it.
If you have something that you would like to be included in e.g. the newsletter, or would like to become a mentor or mentee, please send an email to one of the contacts points per below.
Social media, website etc
The community maintains a LinkedIn group where we regularly post news that may be of interest. Some of the posts make it into the newsletter, but not all. Moreover, the LinkedIn group contains more timely news, while the newsletter and this website is updated more sparsely. We also have a Youtube channel, with some of the first virtual seminars. If you have something that you would like to share, you are free to do so on the LinkedIn group, or email Kijan.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14245317/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/@extremecontexts4105
Steward: Vacant; socials@organizingextremecontexts.org
Extreme Contexts Newsletter
Over the years the newsletter has become increasingly popular. If you have something you would like to share, please let us know and we would be happy to include it. It can be anything between an event that you are organizing, through a paper you have had accepted and would like to share, to a call for papers. You find more information, and a possibility to signup to the newsletter, here.
Steward: Anja Danner-Schröder; newsletter@organizingextremecontexts.org
Mentoring program
The program is designed to provide guidance and support to postdocs and junior faculty (non-tenured) as they navigate their academic and professional journeys launched this academic year (2024/2025). The mentoring program is built on the idea to foster a culture of community among extreme context enthusiast, and create friendly exchanges among like-minded scholars.
Steward: Madeleine Rauch; mentoring@organizingextremecontexts.org
R&R Club
The ultimate aim of the club is to develop the community, and help scholars publish extreme context research in high quality Management and Organization studies journals. ECR&R will operate in much the same way as Cambridge’s OTREG. We’ll meet roughly every three to six months. At each meeting two or three people will have the opportunity to present R&R manuscripts. People sign up to meetings in advance. Manuscripts and reviewers’ comments will be distributed to attendees prior to the meeting. During the meeting we’ll dissect the paper (and reviews) with the aim of trying to help the author(s) develop the manuscript and successfully navigate the review process. Anyone who has attended more than two meetings is eligible to present their work.
If you would like to be part of ECR&R, please contact Robin Burrow (Robin.Burrow@york.ac.uk), and I’ll add you to the mailing list.
Stewards: Robin Burrow & Sophie Jané; RnR@organizingextremecontexts.org
Caring with Extreme Contexts Researchers
This is a peer-based, rather than professionally or psychologically mediated, format where colleagues can share experiences and seek advice from others in the community about planning, conducting, and analysing research in extreme contexts, with particular attention to the ethical, emotional, practical, and methodological challenges these settings entail. The meetings are intended as a space to discuss experiences related to designing empirical research, planning and conducting fieldwork, entering and leaving the field, and working with difficult or emotionally demanding research data. Colleagues can reach out to if they would like to discuss their “discussion issue” at the next meeting.
Stewards: Gloria Kutcher & Anja Danner-Schröder; caring@organizingextremecontexts.org
Extreme Contexts Virtual seminars
The purpose of the workshop series is to bring together the community of extreme context researchers on a recurrent basis throughout the year and outside of the typical conference format. Extreme context research has been an international and interdisciplinary effort among scholars interested in organizing in contexts that have potential to cause severe physical, psychological, or material harm to participants or those in close psychosocial proximity to them (Hällgren, Rouleau, & de Rond, 2018). The ongoing workshop series will allow those of us interested in ECR to connect with each other, to stay up-to-date with the latest research through presentations and discussion, and to get ideas and feedback for empirical or theoretical studies.
Stewards: Derin Kent & Markus Hällgren; v_seminars@organizingextremecontexts.org