Call for Papers

King’s Business School, KCL | London, UK

Submission Deadline is Friday 29th January, 2027

Conference Dates: 14 - 16 July, 2027

  Theme: The Human Advantage - Management Education in an Age of Acceleration

Submission Guidelines  |  Paper Submission

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International MOBTS 2026 Team:

• Alison McFarland, King's Business School, KCL (alison.mcfarland@kcl.ac.uk)
• Brandon Taylor Charpied, MOBTS (brandon@mobts.org)

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Welcome to International MOBTS. We look forward to hosting you in central London at King’s Business School, and we warmly invite your proposals.

Theme: The Human Advantage - Management Education in an Age of Acceleration

The world is changing at extraordinary speed. Artificial intelligence, technological disruption, geopolitical uncertainty, shifting expectations of work and complex societal challenges are reshaping the environments in which organisations operate and leaders act. In the face of this, the need for and contribution of management education becomes clearer and more relevant than ever before. Technology can generate information but it cannot replace human judgement, creativity, empathy, ethical reasoning, or the ability to bring people together to solve complex problems.

This conference invites management educators to explore what the human advantage means for management education today and in the future. How do we prepare learners not simply to adapt to change, but to lead through it? How should our teaching, assessment, curricula and institutions evolve in response to new technologies while remaining grounded in the development of distinctly human capabilities? And how can management education help shape a future of work that is innovative, inclusive and impactful?

MOBTS accepts eight different submission types to its conference. Details and descriptions of each are available in the Submission Guidelines:

• Experiential Activities or Exercises (1 hour)
• Professional Development Workshops (PDW, 1 hour)
• Roundtable Provocations (1 hour)
• Symposia or Panels (1 hour)
• Case Studies (1 hour)
• Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Research Papers (20 mins)
• Gather Round the Experiential Fire (GAIF, 8 mins)
• Writer’s Workshop

Consistent with the experiential tradition of MOBTS, we particularly welcome contributions that allow delegates to experience, discuss and adapt ideas for their own teaching contexts.

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Suggested Session Inspiration

The conference invites activities, exercises, demonstrations, empirical studies, case studies, and theoretical explorations on a variety of topics:

1. Connection, Community and the Human Side of Learning

How can management education create meaningful connection between students, educators and peers in an increasingly complex environment? We invite contributions that share practices, activities and experiences which build belonging, dialogue, collaboration, trust and community, and which explore the value of relationships and human interaction in the learning experience.

2. Inclusive Management Education

How can we make management education a more inclusive and accessible space, truly representative of the students and societies we serve? Contributions might explore inclusive classroom and assessment practices, decolonisation and diversification of curricula, student participation and belonging, accessible learning, co-creation, or ways of engaging critically with inequality within management education and organisational life.

3. Teaching With and Beyond Technology

How can technology enhance management education, and when might we choose to move beyond it? We welcome practical and critical contributions exploring artificial intelligence, digital tools, simulations, virtual and hybrid teaching, immersive technologies, assessment in a changing technological landscape, or approaches that deliberately prioritise human interaction, reflection, creativity and judgement. Contributions that question the assumptions, limitations or unintended consequences of technology are equally welcome.

4. Preparing Students for an Uncertain World

How can management education prepare students for organisations and societies shaped by uncertainty, complexity and rapid change? We welcome teaching practices and SoTL projects that help learners engage with ambiguity, ethical dilemmas, sustainability, geopolitical change, changing expectations of work and complex real-world decision making.

5. The Management Educator: Developing Ourselves and Our Careers

What does it mean to develop and sustain a career as a management educator today? We welcome submissions exploring educator identity, career progression, professional development, mentoring, educational leadership, recognition of teaching, communities of practice, scholarship of teaching and learning, and ways of sustaining ourselves and one another as educators.

6. ‘Your Take’ on Management and Organisational Behaviour Education

MOBTS conferences welcome a broad range of ideas, practices and perspectives on management and organisational behaviour education, and contributions do not need to fit neatly within the themes above or the overall conference theme. If you have an idea or practice that you think would be valuable to the MOBTS community, we encourage you to submit it.

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Session Formats

MOBTS Oceania values innovative, interactive, active sessions with a strong preference for experiential sessions. Proposals can be in the form of interactive exercises, panel/symposium sessions, round table provocation sessions, or Professional Development Workshops (PDW). Sessions are to be 60-minutes long. A noteworthy criterion is that of audience engagement; we encourage submissions that share teaching innovations by showing and doing them.

Additionally, we have three new exciting formats we are unveiling at this year’s conference:

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Papers

For those ready to bring rigor to the conversation about teaching innovation, our new SoTL Papers format groups three related papers into a single 60-minute session, with each presenter given a 20-minute window to share findings and engage the audience in discussion. Published, unpublished, and working papers are all welcome, this is a space to test ideas, get feedback, and connect with others researching similar questions in management education. It's the perfect format for educators who want to move beyond anecdote and into evidence-based practice.

Gather Around the Experiential Fire (Rapid-Fire Style Sessions)

New this year, Gather Around the Experiential Fire (GAEF) brings the energy of a campfire story circle to MOBTS Oceania. In this fast-paced 60-minute session, 7-8 presenters each get 7-8 minutes to share a classroom approach, activity, success, or even a failure worth learning from. No long setups, no slow burns, just the highlights that matter. GAEF is built for educators who want to share a great idea (or a lesson learned the hard way) without committing to a full session, and for attendees who want to leave with a notebook full of ideas they can use Monday morning. This rapid-fire session can be submitted to in the conference submission system and requires a 500-word extended abstract.

Writers Workshop for Developmental Papers

Have a paper in works that isn't quite complete, needs some extra sets of eyes, discussion, and input? Submit to our preconference Writers Workshop to discuss and advance your work. Accepted papers into the workshop will be published in the conference program the same as any other session. The workshop will take place on 3 February prior to the opening reception.

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All submissions are double-anonymous reviewed. Authors should expect to review three other submissions as part of the reciprocity and collegiality that is MOBTS, namely “an environment in which educators at all stages of their careers can reaffirm the relational nature of learning and the values essential to the integrity of the learning process”.

Accepted submissions will have the opportunity to be included in our Conference Proceedings.