ECRM 2026
25th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies
Biographies
Below are the ECRM Biographies of the Conference and Programme Chairs, Key Note Speakers and Mini-Track Chairs.
Conference and Programme Chairs
Ejindu Iwelu MacDonald Morah is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director MBA Healthcare Management at York St John University, London. He holds a PhD in Marketing from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. An award-winning educator, he has taught at University of Westminster, presented at global conferences, serves on editorial boards of journals, and examines doctoral theses Internationally across universities. He is also a review, editorial board and international advisory scientific board member for several international journals.
Shawren Singh PhD, is an associate professor and Head of Department of the Graduate Centre for Management at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He has spent more than 25 years teaching and researching in the Information Systems space. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence grant in 2024. In 2014 he obtained his PhD, based on research into eGovernment in South Africa, from the University of the Witwatersrand. His current research has focused on digital scholarship and e-Government, and his research has been internationally recognised. He is currently supervising several post-graduate candidates, and he was the Chair of Information Systems in the School of Computing at the University of South Africa.
Key Note Speakers
Professor Renitha Rampersad has a DPhil from the University of Zululand, in South Africa. She is the Assistant Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Her research on transformation in business, digitalisation, work integrated learning and women mentorship has contributed to co-edited books and authored chapters in journals. She is involved in national and international funded research projects. She leads a multidisciplinary project on transformation of the socio-economic environment which aligns with digitalisation and infrastructural challenges with BRICS countries.
Hussein Suleman is the Dean of Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His research is situated within the Digital Libraries Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science, with a focus on digital libraries, ICT4D, African language Information Retrieval, cultural heritage preservation, Internet technology and educational technology. He has in the past worked extensively on architecture, scalability and interoperability issues related to digital library systems. He has worked closely with international and national partnerships for metadata archiving, including: the Open Archives Initiative; Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations; and the NRF-CHELSA South African National ETD Project. His recent research has a growing emphasis on the relationship between low resource environments and digital library architectures. This has evolved into a focus on societal development and its alignment with digital libraries and information retrieval. He is currently collaborating with various colleagues in digital humanities groups to develop a proof-of-concept and experimental low-resource software toolkit for digital repositories; this reconceptualision of the architecture of digital repositories will arguably lower the bar for adoption and reduce the risk of data loss for archivists in low-resource environments.