The Hamrin Foundation Visiting Researcher Program

Visiting researchers 2024-2025

Visiting researcher presentations

Dr. Vittoria Magrelli

The Free University of Bolzano, Italy.

Visiting researcher 9-20th of September 2024

Dr. Magrelli works on craft, creativity and innovation. She collaborates with the ABC-centre on research on Olivetti and craft as a philosophy for making things, and organizing the making of things.

More on Dr. Vittoria Magrelli, Free University of Bolzano, Italy – unibz.it

Dr. Magrelli presented her work at a seminar on 12^th of September 2024.
Please contact Dr. Magrelli for more information: vittoria [dot] magrelli [at] unibz [dot] it (vittoria[dot]magrelli[at]unibz[dot]it)

Prof. Damian O’Doherty

University of Liverpool.

Visiting researcher 10-13 December, 2024

Prof. O’Doherty is collaborating with the ABC-centre on research related to craft, and on passion.

Lately, Damian has been working on extending the understanding of organization beyond its anthropogenic limits and is conducting fieldwork into patterns of organization that link a range of human and non-human materials and practices across restaurants, farming, the working of soil, permaculture, homesteading communities, landscape ethnogeomorphology, community forest gardens, and party political policy development. He is working on papers that address debates in social movement theory, alternative organizations, community resiliance, and organization and the natural environment. His most recent publications have addressed the role of ethnographic film in the management learning of climate change and extinction. 

More on Prof. Damian O’Doherty, School of Management, University of Liverpool – liverpool.ac.uk

 Prof. O’Doherty gave a seminar on December 11^th 2024 at the ABC centre. 

Prof. Roberto Verganti

Stockholm School of Economics

Visiting researcher 19-21st of February, 2025

Prof. Verganti is collaborating with the ABC-centre on research related to craft, innovation and aesthetics and business creativity.
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations loved by people, both their users and their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real.  His studies lie at the intersection between leadership, design and technology strategy. In his research Roberto combines methodologies of in-depth analysis of cases with experimentations with pioneering firms, in a variety of industries and contexts. 

More on Prof. Roberto Verganti, Stockholm School of Economics – hhs.se

Prof. Verganti presented his work on February 21^th 2025, at the ABC centre.

Prof. Mollie Painter

Nottingham Business School

Visiting researcher March 23-April 1, 2025

Prof. Painter is co-Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, and works with the ABC-centre on questions of ethics and leadership, craft and social entrepreneurship, and leadership of cultural institutions.

Mollie’s most recent research focuses on sustainability, organisational culture, leadership, and ethics within complex organisational environments. As a philosopher by training, her trademark is bringing insights from 20^th century and contemporary philosophy to management and organisational studies. Topics she has published include leadership and gender, relational accountability, critical perspectives on organisational ethics, and rethinking ethics pedagogies. 

More on Prof. Mollie Painter, Nottingham Business School – ntu.ac.uk

Prof. Painter offered a seminar on March 25^th 2025, at the ABC centre.

Prof. Timon Beyes

Leuphana University Lüneburg
Visiting researcher April 22-25, 2025

Prof. Beyes is collaborating with the ABC-centre on research related to aesthetics, art and organization.

Timon is a sociologist of organization and culture. His research seeks to reconsider organization as a primary concern of cultural theory, and cultural theory as a primary concern for the study of organization. Recent activities include a monograph and several articles on colour as elemental medium of the social. He is also working on art’s ‘organizational turn’ and artistic practices of organizing, on publics and counterpublics as political organizational forms, on the spatial and atmospheric constitution of social organization and on a media theory of technological organization.

Timon is affiliated with the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, is Senior Editor for the journal Organization Studies and co-edits the In Search of Media book series (University of Minnesota Press/meson press).

More on Prof. Timon Beyes, Leuphana University Lüneburg – leuphana.de

Prof. Beyes will offer a seminar on April 23rd, 14.30 – 16.00 at the ABC Centre