Professor Jean M. Bartunek delivers Richard Normann Lecture 2020
Professor Jean M. Bartunek gave this year’s Richard Normann Lecture, delivering a fascinating talk that explored how translations of academic articles are consumed and whether that adds value to both the translation process and academic research.
The talk, entitled ‘Re-imagining academic-practitioner translation as a value-creating system’, was given via Zoom on Thursday 5 November. The Richard Normann Lecture is held annually at Green Templeton College in memory of the late Richard Normann, one of the most profound and sophisticated management thinkers of our time.
Professor Jean Bartunek (left), Ulf Mannervik (right) and Professor Rafael Ramírez (bottom) took part in a panel discussion after the lecture
The lecture is co-sponsored by NormannPartners, the advisory and consultancy company founded by Richard Normann and others including Green Templeton Governing Body Fellow Professor Rafael Ramírez and Ulf Mannervik.
Professor Bartunek is the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and Professor of Management and Organization at Boston College
Before beginning her presentation, Professor Bartunek, the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and Professor of Management and Organization at Boston College, said: “I wish I could actually be with all of you. I do look forward to coming sometime and having the chance to meet several of you in person.
“I have read about Green Templeton College and the fact it’s a meeting point of practitioners, professional and academic worlds, and I’m particularly grateful to be with several people from this college and others.”
Professor Bartunek said she wished she had the chance to know Richard Normann, who died in 2003, adding: “I have been really struck with how creative he was and how much his creativity endures today in NormannPartners.”
She was introduced by Professor Ramírez, who worked with Richard Normann for 18 years, and also gave an overview of the history of the Richard Normann Lectures, and Normann’s legacy.
Her talk covered how management scholarship is translated or practiced, some of Normann’s ideas pertinent to such translation, her current research with Isabelle Ren regarding translation of academic research in practice, and re-imagining of relationships within the translation process based on Normann’s work.
Following the lecture there was a Q&A session with Professor Bartunek and a panel discussion between Professor Bartunek, Professor Ramírez, who is Professor of Practice at Saïd Business School, and Ulf Mannervik, Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School.
Full lecture, panel discussion and Q&A available on YouTube.
The college is delighted to welcome a new Oxford PharmaGenesis DPhil Scholarship in Translational Health.
The scholarship has been established through an endowment gift of £1,660,000 from Oxford PharmaGenesis, now part of the Klick family, creating a permanent fund to support doctoral students undertaking outstanding postgraduate research in the field of translational health at Nuffield Department of Primary Care @oxford_uni
Yesterday our alumni celebrated the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong alongside @st_annescollege alumni at the two societies’ first co-organised event.
The group gathered at a Michelin-starred restaurant to mark the joyful occasion, make new connections and enjoy exquisite traditional food together.
It is wonderful to see the two college alumni societies bringing the wider Oxford community together for what Nathaniel Chan (MBA, 2016), co-chair of the Green Templeton College Hong Kong Alumni Society, described as ‘a memorable occasion’.
Plans are already taking shape for a hike and karaoke event in November, following an ‘impressive impromptu a cappella performance by one alumnus’ at the lunch.
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🌌 Last weekend, Green Templeton welcomed Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Professor Brian Schmidt for the latest event in our Astronomy for All series.
Professor Schmidt took a packed audience on a journey through more than 13 billion years of cosmic history, from the Big Bang to the distant future of the Universe. He explored what we know about the cosmos, how we know it and some of the biggest mysteries that remain.
The lecture was chaired by Governing Body Fellow Rob Fender, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, and continued our celebration of Green Templeton’s connections with Oxford Astrophysics.
Our Oceania Alumni Group is on a roll after successful events in Sydney, Brisbane and last night in Perth.
We`re very thankful to the group`s committee for their energy, commitment and hard work in bringing the community together. It’s wonderful to see connections being strengthened, engagement growing, and the alumni community going from strength to strength.
Exciting times ahead!
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