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Stakeholders Workshop-Goa Stepping Stone Towards a Safe and Sustainable Ocean Economy in India

Venue

The International Centre Goa

Event Date and Time

Tuesday, 24th February 2026

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The workshop is structured as a panel discussion, with the Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Directorate General of Shipping as strategic partners. The goal is to foster actionable dialogue on a safe and sustainable ocean, with a particular focus on Goa’s role and its associated challenges. 
The focus area of this workshop is shipping & ports as well as the fisheries & aquaculture sectors, with a central theme centred on the “Challenges in Shipbuilding and the Knowledge & Skill Gaps in India”, and “Navigating Change: Integrating Modern Safety Technologies and Climate Resilience into Goa’s Traditional Fishing and Aquaculture Ecosystem”.
The workshop will bring together multi-stakeholders around the identified themes with a focus on putting safety at the heart of sustainability. There will be an inaugural session followed by two panel discussions.
The workshop will take place at The International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula, Goa, from 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM.

To register, kindly fill the following google form:
https://forms.gle/NFYWL1phmqCytm7g7

Speaker

Professor Dulini Fernando

Professor, Leadership and Management, Aston Business School, College of Business and Social Sciences

Dulini Fernando (BSc Lancaster, BSc LSE, MSc LSE and PhD Loughborough) is Professor of Work and Organisation at Aston Business School. She researches on highly skilled careers, diversity and inclusion,workplace mistreatment and work in multinational organizations. Dulini’s research as single authorand first author has been published in an array of journals such as Academy of Management Learningand Education, Academy of Management Discoveries, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and the Journal of World Business, and funded by UKERC, UKRI ESRC, British Academy, Midland Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada and GCRF. In 2021, Dulini was chosen as a British Academy Mid Career Fellow to examine intersectionality in the careers of skilled refugees. Dulini’s research has influenced government policy and organizational practice and is cited in international media

Speaker

Professor Mehdi Boussebaa

Professor of International Management , Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

Mehdi Boussebaa is a Professor of International Management at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. His research focuses on multinationals and the politics of management knowledge production in the context of global North-South relations, challenging conventional perspectives and advocating for more inclusive approaches. He has published in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Organization Studies. He serves on the editorial boards of top-tier journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and Organization Studies and is Co-EiC of Critical Perspectives on International Business. Mehdi’s research has received funding from the ESRC and the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust.

Speaker

Professor Monder Ram

Professor Aston Business School, Centre Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME), Aston University

Monder Ram is Professor of Small Business and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) at Aston University. His research examines entrepreneurial processes in marginalised communities, developing theoretical frameworks that challenge conventional understandings while generating practical impact. His work exemplifies engaged scholarship through sustained partnerships with policy bodies, business support agencies, and community organizations. He is a two-times winner of the ESRC Impact Prize for Business (2017 and 2021). Professor Ram has secured substantial research funding from sources including ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, British Academy, and numerous government departments. He has published extensively in leading journals including British Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies

Discussant

Sebastian Morris

Senior Professor, General Management & Public Policy & Chair, Centre for Public Policy & Governance

Prof. Sebastian Morris is Senior Professor and Chair of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at the Goa Institute of Management. He retired from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after over 25 years of teaching, research and consultation. His principal interests are the Indian economy, infrastructure development and regulation, the public sector and governance, international trade and investments, macroeconomics, and small industry. His recent books have been: Macroeconomic Policy in India since the Global Financial Crisis – Trends, Policies and Challenges in Economic Revival Post COVID (Springer Nature, 2022); (ed.) The Difficulty of Being Gajendra Haldea – Reflections on His Life and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2023) and (ed.) The India Infrastructure Report 2023 – Urban Planning and Development (Bloomsbury, 2023). 

Discussant

Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar

Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management

Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar is Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management. He had earlier served as labour administrator for more than two decades with the Govt. of West Bengal. His interests include labour & industrial economics, development economics, business economics, labour administration and labour laws, plantation economics and labour, labour laws and labour administration, employment relations and informal labour. In the past, he has worked as a faculty at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida specializing in labour laws and labour administration. He has also worked as Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, in connection with works related to BPL Census 2011. 

Schedule

9.00 to 9.15 am–  Registration
9.15 to 9.30 am – Welcome
9.30 to 10.30 am – Positioning and motivating papers for publication – Mehdi Boussebaa (with a focus on challenging west-centrism in management scholarship)
10.30 to 11.30 am – Crafting empirical research findings for publication in high profile journals– Dulini Fernando
(with a focus on highly skilled work, cross border movement of labour and EDI scholarship)
11.30 to 11.45 am – Break
11.45 to 12.45 pm –  Crafting engaged scholarship for publication and developing a research agenda via successful collaboration, co-construction and partnerships -Monder Ram (with a focus on small business and enterprise)
12.45 to 2.00 pm – Lunch
2.00 to 3.15 pm – Parallel groups (3 groups, each headed by one of the speakers for participants to engage in idea development, conceptualisation of research questions, etc.)
3.15 to 3.30 pm – Break
3.30 to 3.45 pm –  Developing an academic career alongside out of work responsibilities Dulini Fernando
3.45 to 4.15 pm – Insights into editorial decision making and peer review – Mehdi Boussebaa
4.15 to 5.00 pm -Parallel groups
5.00 to 5.15 pm – Close

Contact Persons

For any queries kindly contact:
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Professor, and Member, CPPG, GIM 
Email: kingshuk@gim.ac.in 
Contact no: +91 9007704524; +91 8322366942

Ms. Bernice de Souza, Manager, CPPG, GIM
Email: bernice@gim.ac.in  
Mb: +91 9923693329

Ms. Shruti Shirodkar, Executive, CPPG, GIM 
Email: shruti.shirodkar@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 8669160128

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