The ISBE Early Career Researcher Special Interest Group (ECR SIG) is delighted to announce the award of two travel grants to support attendance at the upcoming ECR/A Spring Symposium, taking place at Dublin City University on 31st March 2026.
These travel funds are designed to help early career researchers engage with the symposium, share their work, build networks, and take advantage of professional development opportunities within the ISBE community.
Please join us in congratulating Funke Olawale (University of the West of Scotland) and Elizaveta Petrovskaia (University of Iceland).
We look forward to seeing the valuable contributions they will bring to the symposium.
Funke Olawale is a management specialist and doctoral researcher focused on how organisational design and people systems shape business performance. Her work centres on organisational development, SME strategy, and capability building, with particular interest in how structure, leadership, and performance systems support sustainable growth. She is committed to helping organisations build resilient, people-centred systems that improve execution, accountability, and long-term effectiveness.
Elizaveta Petrovskaia is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow at the University of Iceland School of Business, working within the SEISMIC Doctoral Network in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Her research focuses on social entrepreneurship and impact investing, with particular attention to how organizations maintain alignment between their social mission and operational and strategic decisions as they grow and engage with investors. Her doctoral work examines “impact fidelity” across the investment lifecycle, exploring governance mechanisms, stakeholder dynamics, and identity processes that shape mission preservation in hybrid organizations.