Since our first gathering in 2004, the Adderley Positive Research Incubator has enabled 250 researchers in the broad domain of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) to share early research ideas. Designed to foster a developmental environment characterized by positive regard, generative insights, and new collaborative possibilities, incubators encourage both high-quality research and scholarly growth.

In the spring of 2021, we relaunched the Adderley Positive Research Incubator to celebrate and invest in the research ideas of young scholars (doctoral students and junior faculty members). We redesigned the incubator to enable young scholars to offer research ideas and have designated faculty build on these ideas.

The design also invites incubator attendees (from our 1,000+ person POS Community of Scholars) to offer gifts of feedback and to share their major learning from the presented research. By design, the research incubator is an exciting forum for the growth, celebration, and expansion of research ideas aimed at fostering our understanding of the science of thriving organizations.

Lidiia Pletneva, London School of Economics and Political Science

I am an Assistant Professor of Management with a focus on Organisational Behaviour at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I received my PhD in Organisational Behaviour from ESSEC Business School, France.

As an Organizational Behavior scholar, I use qualitative methods to explore the impact of personal critical events on professional life, including on work identity.

My current focus is on grief-inducing events and how work can help an individual to move through such an experience as well as how this experience affects work identity. Additionally, I am interested in understanding how such a personal experience can also affect an individual’s coworkers. My work outside of my dissertation is also tightly linked to critical events and professional life. An additional facet of my published work explores teaching practices in the field of management.

Register here for this free online event. Please note, this event has been standardized to the Eastern Time Zone.