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Upcoming events

Whether you're looking to network with industry leaders, learn from expert speakers, or stay ahead of the latest trends, our business events provide invaluable opportunities for growth and connection.

NUBS Women's Network: Welcome Social

Come along to our welcome social to learn more about NUBS Women’s Network and connect with women from across the Business School over coffee and treats.

Date Time Location
9 October 2025 16:30 - 18:00 Newcastle University Business School, Room 3.13 PWC

Are Bidder-Initiated Takeovers Opportunistic?

Finance research seminar with Professor Bjorn Espen Eckbo. He presents a first test of an opportunistic market-timing hypothesis.

Date Time Location
10 October 2025 13:00 - 15:00 Newcastle University Business School, Room 2.10

Deliberate Process Navigation Through Sensing as a Design Thinking Threshold Concept

Entrepreneurship & Innovation research seminar with Dr Lucy Hatt. Explore how designers navigate uncertainty, context and others in the gaps between process steps.

Date Time Location
15 October 2025 13:30 - 14:30 Newcastle University Business School, Room 2.05

Alumni webinar: Find your work-life balance

Learn practical ways to spot burnout, set healthy boundaries and build routines in a 60-minute alumni webinar with wellbeing coach and EMBA graduate Bethany Ainsley.

Date Time Location
16 October 2025 12:30 - 13:30 Online via Zoom

The Covenant-Defeasance Option in Corporate Bonds

Finance research seminar with Professor Karin S. Thorburn on why issuers under financial constraints often add defeasance to bonds with high uncertainty, growth potential, and many covenants.

Date Time Location
20 October 2025 13:00 - 15:00 Frederick Douglass Centre, Room 1.17

Aspiration Digital

This free one-day digital skills conference is designed to educate students about the wide range of roles within the digital industry and the diverse career paths available. It’s an ideal experience for those studying media, business, computing, IT, or marketing.

Date Time Location
5 November 2025 09:00 - 17:00 Newcastle University Business School

How do Investors Trade Option Anomalies?

Finance research seminar with Professor Chardin Wese Simen on how investors trade option anomalies.

Date Time Location
12 November 2025 15:00 - 17:00 Frederick Douglass Centre, Room 1.17

How Entrepreneurs Develop Collective Strategies for Institutional Work in their City

Entrepreneurship & Innovation research seminar. PhD student Juan Hwang explores how entrepreneurs build collective strategies to influence institutions and create change in their city.

Date Time Location
19 November 2025 13:30 - 14:30 Newcastle University Business School, Room 2.13

Bank Credit Risk and Biodiversity

Finance research seminar with Dr Nikolaos Papanikolaou. His paper explores the relationship between banks’ biodiversity-related activities and credit risk by analysing both disclosure narratives and institutional actions.

Date Time Location
19 November 2025 14:00 - 15:00 Frederick Douglass Centre, Room 1.17

Decomposing Unrealized Returns into Adapted and Unadapted Components Using Reference Points

Finance research seminar with Professor Darren Duxbury. His research examines how unrealized returns can be split into adapted (internalised) and unadapted (externalised) components, showing that each has opposing effects on future risk-taking and stock returns.

Date Time Location
26 November 2025 13:00 - 15:00 Frederick Douglass Centre, Room 2.16