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 […]
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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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
Workplace Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and The Role of Flexible Working Read More »
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
In this blog, Professor Monder Ram draws on evidence from the recent Time to Change Report to advocate for better and more inclusive support for ethnic minority entrepreneurs to help boost the UK economy. A £100 billion boost to the UK economy is tantalisingly within reach if the country’s ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) are given
Time to change: advancing the UK’s ethnic minority businesses Read More »
Dr Nicola Murray of the PrOPEL Hub team and Strathclyde Business School shares key insights from Flexibility Works’ Flex for Life 2022 Report and highlights the benefits of embedding flexibility into organisational strategy. The pandemic has given rise to one of the biggest shake-ups to the world of work we have ever experienced and as
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In the latest PrOPEL Hub blog, Tim Butcher, Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary at the Low Pay Commission and Dr Imelda McCarthy, Research Fellow and Organisational Psychologist at CRÈME, consider how increases in the National Living Wage and the Covid-19 pandemic will impact small and microbusinesses and outline opportunities to join the Low Pay Commission
In the latest blog in our series exploring managerial capability, Peter Urwin and Emma Parry reflect on the lessons arising from diversity and inclusion research for management practice. They consider how the pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities and explore the value in moving away from an emphasis on particular divisions in the workplace. The UK
Diversity In The British Workplace: Are We Managing? Read More »
In this blog, Professor Sara Connolly and Dr Matthew Aldrich share findings from research into gender perceptions and uptake of flexible working arrangements.
Fathers’ Flexible Working Arrangements Read More »
In this blog, Professors Melanie Jones, Kim Hoque, Victoria Wass and Nick Bacon outline lessons learned from the Great Recession 2008-09 on how to protect disabled employees during the deepening recession resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Protecting disabled employees from unequal treatment during a Covid-19 recession Read More »
