The Hamrin Foundation Visiting Researcher Program

Visiting researchers 2024-2025

Visiting researcher presentations

Dr. Vittoria Magrelli

The Free University of Bolzano, Italy.

Visiting reasearcher 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 reasearcher 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 will give a seminar on December 11^th, 14.30 – 16.00 at the ABC centre. 

Prof. Roberto Verganti

Stockholm School of Economics

Visiting reasearcher 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 will offer a seminar on February 21^st, 12 – 13 at the ABC centre.

Prof. Mollie Painter

Nottingham Business School

Visiting reasearcher March 17-28, 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 will offer a seminar on March 25^th, 11.30 – 13.00 at the ABC-centre.