Our ESRC PrOPEL Hub and Strathclyde Business School colleague Professor Colin Lindsay blogs about recent Job Crafting workshops with NHS oncology teams At the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council PrOPEL Hub, we have hugely valued the opportunity to share insights on the potential for Job Crafting to empower people to solve problems and drive […]
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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
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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Professor Colin Lindsay PhD, MCIPD, FRSA, Director of the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council PrOPEL Hub, reflects on the latest of the project’s series of innovative ‘Hackathons’ bringing together leading workplace researchers with HR leaders and people managers to explore how we can use cutting-edge evidence to inform workplace practice and enhance productivity. The
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Dr Helen Fitzhugh reports back on the experience of running PrOPEL Hub’s first ever Knowledge Exchange Bootcamp in January 2024, alongside colleagues Dr Nicola Murray and Dr Keira O’Kane. What a way to start 2024! Keira, Nicola and I – all Knowledge Exchange Fellows for PrOPEL Hub partner universities – spent two and half days
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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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Introduction Job crafting is a bottom-up, employee driven approach to job design that can complement more traditional top-down, manager led approaches. In this short article, we’ll explore the basics of job crafting and share some examples of what it can look like in practice as well as the research evidence for why it matters. At
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Professor Colin Lindsay of Strathclyde Business School, Director of ESRC PrOPEL Hub, welcomes the award of additional funding that will support university researchers across all four nations of the UK to engage in knowledge exchange with business leaders, people managers and workplace stakeholders to promote evidence-based practice to benefit employee wellbeing, productivity and innovation. The
Professor Colin Lindsay, Strathclyde Business School and ESRC PrOPEL Hub Director, reflects on this month’s latest “SPARC” event bringing together workplace researchers and people managers to share insights on evidence-based HRM Since 2021, the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) at Strathclyde Business School has been leading the ESRC PrOPEL Hub (Productivity Outcomes of Workplace
