Innovation in Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards 2017 : An Anthology of Case Histories

Not that many years ago academics spoke about there being individualswho were teachers and other individuals who were researchers. Thesuggestion was that teachers were not necessarily competent researchersand equally it was not necessarily clear that good researchers would makegood teachers. There may have been some truth in this and maybe therestill is. However, the main thrust of universities have been that research isthe sine qua non for an academic career. This being the case all academics,whether they are designated as teachers or researchers, need to knowsomething about research methodology and research methods.It is for this reason that the European Conference on Business ResearchMethods has had a substantial following the last 16 years.But as well as having academics present research papers on the topic ofresearch methodology for business and management studies we havebeen interested to elicit and record examples of good practice in theteaching of this important topic. For this reason we established theExcellence Awards in this field three years ago.This publication contains the entries from the shortlisted contestants andgives the reader a good overview of the type of issues which academics arecoping with in classrooms today in various parts of the world.