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Closing the ESRC PrOPEL Hub in style: The end of the ESRC PrOPEL Hub – the beginning of its KE legacy

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 […]

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“It’s about how your research can come to life!” Reflections on the Second ESRC PrOPEL Hub Knowledge Exchange Bootcamp

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

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Knowledge Exchange Bootcamp for Early Career Researchers – Social Sciences

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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Reflections on the ESRC PrOPEL Hub People Management Hackathon, Belfast, 29 February

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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First PrOPEL Hub Knowledge Exchange Bootcamp inspiring an engaged scholarship revolution

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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Workplace practice for engagement, innovation and learning: next steps for the ESRC PrOPEL Hub

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

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Next steps in building a “Sustainable Practice Action Research Community” (SPARC) for Evidence-based HRM

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

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Productivity Outcomes of Workplace Practice, Engagement, & Learning: Insights from the ESCR PrOPEL Hub

ESRC PrOPEL Hub has been a bridge to boost productivity and wellbeing in public and private organisations. This has been possible by transforming the outputs of cutting-edge research projects into practice. PrOPEL Hub has exchanged knowledge and provided practical lessons to the organisations through different deliveries such as hackathons, toolkits, podcasts, blogs, and free online

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