Dr Keira O’Kane reflects on PrOPEL Hub’s 2nd Knowledge Exchange (KE) Bootcamp for Early Career Researchers, co-delivered alongside Dr Nicola Murray and Dr Helen Fitzhugh at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in June 2024. “I am no longer afraid to do KE” A particularly heartening piece of feedback from one of our participants on completion […]
The last PrOPEL Hub event, in June 2024, saw us drawing on the project’s long-standing commitment to knowledge exchange and on the experience our first Knowledge Exchange Bootcamp for Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences from January this year, to encourage PhD students from various Scottish universities to make their research count. Here, course
Dr Nicola Murray of Strathclyde Business School and ESRC PrOPEL Hub reflects on our Knowledge Into Practice event – in collaboration with Flexibility Works – that engaged with a range of HR stakeholders to discuss the evidence on ‘what might work’ in EDI and flexible working strategies. In late 2023, the Strathclyde team hosted a
Professor Colin Lindsay, Director of ESRC PrOPEL Hub, reflects on insights from our recent Knowledge Into Practice event, hosted in collaboration the Enterprise Research Centre, on Mental Health, Workplace Wellbeing and Productivity Here at the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council PrOPEL Hub, we hugely enjoyed partnering with the Enterprise Research Centre (UK) on our
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For the attention of Early Career Researchers (doctoral student at least two years into their PhD work, through to early career lecturers and research fellows) This free, intensive KE event organised by ESRC PrOPEL Hub colleagues may be of interest to you. Numbers are limited to 30, so please apply now via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/knowledge-exchange-bootcamp-for-early-career-researchers-social-sciences-tickets-896472823347 Tuesday
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Written by Dr Imelda McCarthy, CREME Introduction The P WORD, a programme dedicated to nurturing creative talents, has embarked on its third year, running from July to December 2023. This initiative, a collaboration between CREME and Punch Records, offered bespoke workshops focused on business development, mentoring, and networking opportunities. The Cohort Participants on the programme
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Line managers play a central role in shaping working experiences and building more effective and productive workplaces. In particular, they are ideally placed to prevent, contain and resolve conflict at work, which currently costs UK organisations more than £28billion per year. But research has consistently shown that most managers are not provided with the skills
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PrOPEL Hub colleagues, Rhys Davies and Alan Felstead, both of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data based at Cardiff University, presented their findings on job quality to the Wales Productivity Forum. Large infrastructure projects – such as HS2 – or investment in R&D are often considered to be among the main
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Join us for a free Knowledge into Practice event co-hosted by the PrOPEL Hub and Flexibility Works for a morning of insights, discussion and activities followed by a networking lunch! Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) has become an important consideration for all organisations regardless of size or sector, however it can be a tricky area to navigate with lots
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In 2022, PrOPEL Hub partners at the Workplace Wellbeing Research team, Norwich Business School (NBS), University of East Anglia launched the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing toolkit. 15 months later, the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council Propel Hub is happy to share the outcome of the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing toolkit Evaluation Report. Stakeholders who have engaged with the Evolve team have reported
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