The PROPEL Hub - Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Strathclyde
Department Name: Business School
Abstract
Boosting productivity is the greatest economic challenge facing the UK. There is now a strong consensus on the potential for synergy between (1) agile and high performing businesses/organisations; (2) high quality, inclusive and engaging work and (3) effective, efficient and prosperous societies. The key domain in which to drive engagement and productivity is the workplace - where managers and employees create economic value. The ESRC has correctly prioritised research on management practice and employee engagement (MP-EE) within this context. This proposal, to establish the PROPEL Hub (Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning), seeks to bring together all recently funded ESRC MP-EE projects through a process of co-production and co-creation, connect with other major ESRC investments and engage with world class scholarship on engagement and productivity, to maximise the synergies and impacts of ESRC-funded work in this space. The PROPEL Hub's Primary Investigator will be based at the University of Strathclyde, but all other ESRC MP-EE teams are active partners in this proposal. The approach agreed among and beyond MP-EE teams therefore represents excellent value for money for ESRC - combining limited resources to deliver additional value from existing investments, rather than imposing from the top-down an external hub co-ordinator unconnected to our projects. Our proposal is further strengthened by collaboration with Cardiff and Ulster Universities (so that the PROPEL Hub will impact, and learn from, practice in all nations of the UK) and by an active role for a major national workplace partner, the CIPD. The PROPEL Hub has five distinguishing features:
1. The Hub will be co-created by the five ESRC MP-EE projects and key partners.
2. The model adopted will be a spoke and hub model (as opposed to being a hub and spoke model), locating the research projects at the core of insight, engagement and impact.
3. The Hub will contain a major national partner (CIPD) with links to management, employees and workplaces across the UK.
4. The Hub will deliver genuinely UK-wide engagement and impact through the five ESRC project teams spanning Glasgow to London, along with two additional academic partners from Cardiff/Wales and Ulster/Northern Ireland).
5. The Hub is led by a team with extensive experience of, and expertise in, working in an impactful manner with employers, employees, entrepreneurs and policy stakeholders.
Resources are sought to support the work of co-investigators at ESRC MP-EE institutions, Hub management support and knowledge exchange (KE) staff to help to maximise opportunities for collaboration and impact. The PROPEL Hub will drive new activity to bring together ESRC MP-EE teams to share learning, add value and facilitate opportunities for them to engage with other relevant groups and organisations, most crucially policy and business communities. Specific activities will include: MP-EE Masterclasses, bringing together ESRC MP-EE teams, international research leaders, and targeting an audience of business and policy leaders; MP-EE International Research Seminars, focusing on making connections between, or 'learning from difference' across the conceptual, methodological and empirical work of the ESRC MP-EE projects, and again engaging with other world leading researchers; Knowledge into Practice events and Engagement Hacks, where PROPEL Hub KE staff will engage directly with businesses and key stakeholders to share practical insights and solutions around engagement and productivity; and extensive online KE activity to extend the reach of our collaboration and establish a peer learning network. Formative, process and summative evaluation activities will capture the impact of the PROPEL Hub's engagement with academic, business and policy communities, and report on inter-disciplinary and/or international research collaborations or shared learning emanating from our activities.
1. The Hub will be co-created by the five ESRC MP-EE projects and key partners.
2. The model adopted will be a spoke and hub model (as opposed to being a hub and spoke model), locating the research projects at the core of insight, engagement and impact.
3. The Hub will contain a major national partner (CIPD) with links to management, employees and workplaces across the UK.
4. The Hub will deliver genuinely UK-wide engagement and impact through the five ESRC project teams spanning Glasgow to London, along with two additional academic partners from Cardiff/Wales and Ulster/Northern Ireland).
5. The Hub is led by a team with extensive experience of, and expertise in, working in an impactful manner with employers, employees, entrepreneurs and policy stakeholders.
Resources are sought to support the work of co-investigators at ESRC MP-EE institutions, Hub management support and knowledge exchange (KE) staff to help to maximise opportunities for collaboration and impact. The PROPEL Hub will drive new activity to bring together ESRC MP-EE teams to share learning, add value and facilitate opportunities for them to engage with other relevant groups and organisations, most crucially policy and business communities. Specific activities will include: MP-EE Masterclasses, bringing together ESRC MP-EE teams, international research leaders, and targeting an audience of business and policy leaders; MP-EE International Research Seminars, focusing on making connections between, or 'learning from difference' across the conceptual, methodological and empirical work of the ESRC MP-EE projects, and again engaging with other world leading researchers; Knowledge into Practice events and Engagement Hacks, where PROPEL Hub KE staff will engage directly with businesses and key stakeholders to share practical insights and solutions around engagement and productivity; and extensive online KE activity to extend the reach of our collaboration and establish a peer learning network. Formative, process and summative evaluation activities will capture the impact of the PROPEL Hub's engagement with academic, business and policy communities, and report on inter-disciplinary and/or international research collaborations or shared learning emanating from our activities.
Planned Impact
Each MP-EE project will link their beneficiaries and target audiences into the integrated PROPEL Hub, growing exponentially the opportunities for networking and collaborative learning that will impact business practice:
1 the Strathclyde-led MP-EE is rooted in action-focused engagement with policymakers and representatives of public agencies (the Scottish Government, Skills Development Scotland, and Scotland's main enterprise agencies, Highland and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise), employers' bodies (CBI and FSB) and a trade major trade union confederation (STUC);
2 the Aston University-led MP-EE features extensive impact activities with business stakeholders including BCC, FSB and MakeUK, as well as regional policy stakeholders;
3 the University of Sheffield-led MP-EE partners with ACAS and will engage with business representative bodies on workplace conflict;
4 the NIESR-led MP-EE (including partners at NUBS leading that project's contribution to this proposal) is working closely with ONS, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Bank of England, CBI, Be the Business and CMI;
5 the UEA-led MP-EE is based on collaboration with employers and their representative bodies, the NHS and occupational health stakeholders.
Further information is available in the MP-EE projects' Pathways to Impact statements, but the key message is that our Hub will connect these existing beneficiary networks, rather than seeking to impose additional demands from outside. The inclusion of partners from Wales and Northern Ireland with access to strong business and policy networks means that we will be able to extend and contextualise lessons to all nations of the UK and the unique policy environments that exist there. Our partners at CIPD will ensure that lessons from the MP-EE projects and PROPEL Hub are disseminated to the fullest extent across the HR profession. Our proposal represents an effective and efficient approach to growing and connecting beneficiary networks and provides outstanding value for money. The cross-fertilisation of ideas and actions will further strengthen and expand networks with business and policy stakeholders established by MP-EE projects.
KE staff in each institution will extend the impact of lessons from the research by engaging directly with businesses and other relevant stakeholders through 'Knowledge Into Practice' days and 'Engagement Hacks' - the emphasis here is on identifying practical lessons from across all projects (made easier given that the PROPEL Hub will be co-created by those five projects) and engaging with the business community to test solutions in context. The outcome of such engagements - and the practical impacts that they have on business practice and performance - will be fed back in our peer review reporting and the practical 'learning from difference' insights.
Most importantly, by co-creating a Hub based on collaboration across the five MP-EE teams, we will create a unique opportunity to develop knowledge-sharing across our groups of business beneficiaries. Our proposal details an extensive programme of activities where MP-EE teams will share findings and identify both shared and distinctive themes emerging from their research: together; in collaboration with leading international scholars who will engage with the teams and their beneficiary audiences, and with each other's networks of business and policy stakeholders. These learning and networking events, and the online materials co-created to support the work of the PROPEL Hub, will mean that business and policy stakeholders connected to each MP-EE project will be able to extend their networks and learning by connecting with the practical insights being identified by the other four projects and the shared lessons generated by the PROPEL Hub. This will deliver significant impact in terms of learning among business stakeholders around a range of approaches to employee engagement.
1 the Strathclyde-led MP-EE is rooted in action-focused engagement with policymakers and representatives of public agencies (the Scottish Government, Skills Development Scotland, and Scotland's main enterprise agencies, Highland and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise), employers' bodies (CBI and FSB) and a trade major trade union confederation (STUC);
2 the Aston University-led MP-EE features extensive impact activities with business stakeholders including BCC, FSB and MakeUK, as well as regional policy stakeholders;
3 the University of Sheffield-led MP-EE partners with ACAS and will engage with business representative bodies on workplace conflict;
4 the NIESR-led MP-EE (including partners at NUBS leading that project's contribution to this proposal) is working closely with ONS, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Bank of England, CBI, Be the Business and CMI;
5 the UEA-led MP-EE is based on collaboration with employers and their representative bodies, the NHS and occupational health stakeholders.
Further information is available in the MP-EE projects' Pathways to Impact statements, but the key message is that our Hub will connect these existing beneficiary networks, rather than seeking to impose additional demands from outside. The inclusion of partners from Wales and Northern Ireland with access to strong business and policy networks means that we will be able to extend and contextualise lessons to all nations of the UK and the unique policy environments that exist there. Our partners at CIPD will ensure that lessons from the MP-EE projects and PROPEL Hub are disseminated to the fullest extent across the HR profession. Our proposal represents an effective and efficient approach to growing and connecting beneficiary networks and provides outstanding value for money. The cross-fertilisation of ideas and actions will further strengthen and expand networks with business and policy stakeholders established by MP-EE projects.
KE staff in each institution will extend the impact of lessons from the research by engaging directly with businesses and other relevant stakeholders through 'Knowledge Into Practice' days and 'Engagement Hacks' - the emphasis here is on identifying practical lessons from across all projects (made easier given that the PROPEL Hub will be co-created by those five projects) and engaging with the business community to test solutions in context. The outcome of such engagements - and the practical impacts that they have on business practice and performance - will be fed back in our peer review reporting and the practical 'learning from difference' insights.
Most importantly, by co-creating a Hub based on collaboration across the five MP-EE teams, we will create a unique opportunity to develop knowledge-sharing across our groups of business beneficiaries. Our proposal details an extensive programme of activities where MP-EE teams will share findings and identify both shared and distinctive themes emerging from their research: together; in collaboration with leading international scholars who will engage with the teams and their beneficiary audiences, and with each other's networks of business and policy stakeholders. These learning and networking events, and the online materials co-created to support the work of the PROPEL Hub, will mean that business and policy stakeholders connected to each MP-EE project will be able to extend their networks and learning by connecting with the practical insights being identified by the other four projects and the shared lessons generated by the PROPEL Hub. This will deliver significant impact in terms of learning among business stakeholders around a range of approaches to employee engagement.
Publications

Daniels, K
(2021)
Home Alone
in Safety Management

Darby J
(2022)
What can analysis of 47 million job advertisements tell us about how opportunities for homeworking are evolving in the United Kingdom?
in Industrial Relations Journal

Davies R
(2023)
Is job quality better or worse? Insights from quiz data collected before and after the pandemic
in Industrial Relations Journal

Deng X
(2022)
Participation in setting technology standards and the implied cost of equity
in Research Policy

Felstead A
(2022)
Remote Working - A Research Overview

Foucart R
(2021)
The role of technology standards in product innovation: Theory and evidence from UK manufacturing firms
in Research Policy


Nasirov S
(2021)
Converting technological inventions into new products: The role of CEO human capital
in Journal of Product Innovation Management
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub has substantially over-delivered against our objectives. In the wake of Covid-19, we have refocused our activity online, significantly improving the reach of our work. Accordingly, the planned 36 items of web content expanded to become more than 180 items of content accessed by more than 18,000 users. We have used online platforms (and increasingly in-person events) to build a suite of impactful engagement activities that have engaged business, workplace and policy stakeholders. Our initial objective or running a modest number of masterclasses, seminars and 'hacks' morphed into a substantial body of hacks, hackathons, webinars and seminars, Knowledge Into Practice events and (as mentioned above) online toolkits and resources. We have engaged directly with more than 3,800 employers, people managers and workplace stakeholders through our online and in-person webinars, masterclass and 'Knowledge Into Practice' events. We have engaged with more than 1,000 managers and employees through problem-solving 'hacks' and 'hackathons'. ESRC PrOPEL Hub has therefore achieved its objective of working in partnership to catalyse change, with many business and workplace stakeholders confirming new learning and thinking in response to our engagement and impact activities. Our national conference in 2022, attended by 79 stakeholders, included presentations from many employers and stakeholders who had directly engaged with our research and KE activities. ESRC PrOPEL Hub network members have also learned from each others, sharing insights from a wide range of approaches to impact and both qualitative and quantitative research methods. A second national conference in 2024 gathered more than 80 participants. Our objective of growing the capacity of the KE community involved in knowledge exchange on workplace practice has also been achieved. We have supported the emergence of a network of KE Associates - early career researchers who have developed substantial experience of turning knowledge into practice and who have played a key role in our engagement with workplace stakeholders. A series of buddying and mentoring activities, KE Associate training and development days, experience-sharing platforms and critical reflection tools were developed to assist our KE Associates to learn collaboratively. An innovative 2.5 days KE Bootcamp saw PrOPEL Hub researchers impart KE and impact skills to a wider community of ECRs from a number of different HE institutions. We have co-produced strong synergies and collaborative relationships across the ESRC PrOPEL Hub institutions, presenting research together (and learning from each other) at numerous KE events run by the Hub and our colleagues at The CIPD (e.g. there have been dedicated ESRC PrOPEL Hub sessions involving multiple PrOPEL Hub team members at the 2022 and 2023 CIPD Applied Research Conferences). We have therefore made good on our promise to link and build synergies across different ESRC MPEE investments and inter-disciplinary researchers from elsewhere who share our interest in informing workplace practice. We have collaborated on the development of KE tools and events. We have worked The CIPD (the chartered people managers association with more than 160,000 members) to build a 'Sustainable Practice Action Research Community' (SPARC) bringing together managers, business stakeholders and workplace researchers in a collaborative learning community. We have co-produced collaborative relationships with other key stakeholders such as ACAS, CMI, Healthcare People Management Association and Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. We have also made good on our objective to link with other ESRC investments, exchanging learning with colleagues at the Productivity Institute and co-creating events with the Good Employment Learning Lab. In summary, ESRC PrOPEL Hub partners have collaborated to achieve the objectives set for the project and substantial additional impact. |
Exploitation Route | Our extensive online presence will be maintained as a repository containing cutting-edge research tools and resources and impactful materials that can inform workplace practice. The collaboration between ESRC PrOPEL Hub and The CIPD has influenced a fundamental shift in how The CIPD engages with both KE as an agenda and the academic research community. Some of our engagement practices such as Knowledge Into Practice formats and the establishment of a 'Sustainable Practice Action Research Community' (SPARC) for evidence-based HRM have been taken up and adopted by The CIPD as an element of their mainstream activities. The CIPD has also partnered with other ESRC investments specifically because of their positive experience as an ESRC PrOPEL Hub partner. The shared inter-disciplinary learning across our network will inform the future practice of the academics and stakeholders involved, who might not otherwise have been able to tap these cross-disciplinary insights. Many of the toollkits and research instruments developed as part of our work will continue to be used by ESRC PrOPEL Hub academics and will continue to inform the practice of those stakeholder with whom we have engaged. The practice of PrOPEL Hub partners has been informed and challenged, substantially growing our understanding of effective KE and impact strategies. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Education Government Democracy and Justice |
URL | http://www.propelhub.org |
Description | Despite a delayed start to the PrOPEL Hub and its feeder MP-EE projects due to Covid-19, the project significantly over-achieved against its objectives. We refocused our activity online and prioritised building our digital presence to disseminate content and run events. This shift online allowed us to broaden our audience reach, increased flexibility in delivery of events and opened up access to international academics and speakers. In the final year of the project we were able to complement our extensive online presence with multiple in-depth, in-person activities such as 'hacks', 'hackathons', 'Knowledge Into Practice' seminars, and (in collaboration with The CIPD) the establishment of a new 'Sustainable Practice Action Research Community' (SPARC) bringing together managers, business stakeholders and workplace researchers in a collaborative learning community. We have engaged directly with more than 3,800 employers, people managers and workplace stakeholders through our online and in-person webinars, masterclass and 'Knowledge Into Practice' events. We have engaged with more than 1,500 managers and employees through problem-solving 'hacks' and 'hackathons'. Feedback from workplace stakeholders who we have engaged with frequently suggests that they have gained new evidence-based insights and often consider using our evidence to inform workplace practice. There are numerous of case studies of ESRC PrOPEL Hub 'products' (e.g. the UEA team's workplace wellbeing toolkit; job crafting hacks developed by the Strathclyde team; support and insight for microenterprises provided by the Aston team; benchmarking analysis on technology adoption provided by the Nottingham team; and others) where we identify direct impacts on management decision-making and workplace practice. Our web resources have been visited by more than 18,000 users. We have supported the next and new generation of KE professionals by offering learning and mentorship for our KE Fellows and Associates, and funding and supporting a KE Bootcamp to impart impact and KE skills to early career researchers at other institutions. We have established an important new modus operandi with our partners at The CIPD (the professional association for people management with 160,000 members), disseminating ESRC PrOPEL Hub insights through many CIPD-sponsored events, co-organising Knowledge Into Practice events and creating a new 'Sustainable Practice Action Research Community' (SPARC), which will act as a sustainable network for promoting evidence-based HRM and sharing effective workplace practice. The CIPD's engagement with ESRC PrOPEL Hub has fundamentally re-shaped how the former organisation engages with the research and KE community and has informed multiple additional collaborations between the CIPD and the business research community. We have also fostered close and impactful relationships with other key stakeholders in management and workplace practice, including ACAS, the FSB, the Chartered Management Institute and the Healthcare People Management Association, among others, expanding the reach of our insights, and generating shared learning across the research, KE and business stakeholder communities. Our extensive investment in web resources has facilitated the delivery of impactful engagements with business, policy and workplace stakeholders. Our website continues to host more than 180 items of web content and has been accessed by more than 18,000 users. We have established and supported a network of KE Associates - early career researchers who we have supported to develop skills that will enable them to develop impact-oriented careers. We have delivered a substantial programme of shared learning activities across ESRC PrOPEL Hub partners informing inter-disciplinary learning and potential future collaborations among partner institutions. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Energy,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Other |
Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Citation in the Welsh Centre for Public Policy review of remote working |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.wcpp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Remote-working-.pdf |
Description | Member, Business Purpose Commission, Scotland |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/business-purpose-commission-report-scottish-government-response/ |
Description | Verbal and Written Evidence on Homeworking to Senedd 2020/2021 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://business.senedd.wales/documents/s500006852/Remote%20working%20report%20Professor%20Alan%20Fe... |
Description | contribution to the "Rebuilding a Resilient Britain" programme led by the Government Office for Science 2020 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.upen.ac.uk/go_science/ |
Description | Benchmarking digital readiness and managing technology for productivity |
Amount | £22,647 (GBP) |
Funding ID | UKRI QR Strategic Priory Funding (QR SPF) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2020 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Good Work Index 2021 |
Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2021 |
End | 04/2021 |
Description | Supporting Innovative Work Behaviours to Drive Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) Innovation in Fintech |
Amount | £15,296 (GBP) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 07/2021 |
Description | The Productivity Institute People Programme: Effective Worker Voice and Pathways to Productivity |
Amount | £105,540 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2024 |
End | 12/2024 |
Description | Transforming productivity: evidence and coordination |
Amount | £45,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 07/2022 |
Title | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Impact Capture Tool |
Description | A qualitative impact capture tool was designed by ESRC PrOPEL Hub researchers and deployed to engage with 17 participants and stakeholders who engaged with PrOPEL Hub activities. A question set was developed and deployed to explore stakeholders' views of the objectives, impacts, benefits and limitations of PrOPEL Hub interventions. |
Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The data generated informed and impact capture report that will be used to inform future research and KE activities taken forward by ESRC PrOPEL Hub partners. |
Title | Business case calculator |
Description | Business case calculator for workplace health and wellbeing activities |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Engagement with professional practitioners, invitations to workshops |
URL | https://evolveworkplacewellbeing.org/business-calculator/ |
Title | https://evolveworkplacewellbeing.org/ - Overall wellbeing programme toolkit |
Description | Web enable tool hosting a range of diagnostics, case studies and other resources for HR and occupational health professionals |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Engagement with professional practitioners internationally and continuing collaborations with employers on wellbeing strategies |
URL | https://evolveworkplacewellbeing.org/ |
Description | A fair work recovery - Fair Work Convention Webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Participation in an event examining the implications of the Covid19 pandemic for fair work. This webinar was organised by the Fair Work Convention and the expert panel comprised national and international speakers. The content of the webinar included discussion of workplace innovations and their implications for fair work. Policy makers, business representatives, trade unions, researchers and civil society organisation members attended the event and engaged in discussions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.fairworkconvention.scot/a-fair-work-recovery-speakers-bio/ |
Description | A talk or presentation - Series of cross-hub events to celebrate launch of PrOPEL Hub Website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Ran a series of cross-hub webinars and podcasts to generate interest in the PrOPEL Hub website launch in June. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://twitter.com/PrOPEL_Hub/status/1271060365158371329 |
Description | All Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Policy - The Future of Work |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Expert presentation to All Party Parliamentary Group on science and policy, on the invitation of ESRC, drawing on the insights from the MPEE research project and the PrOPEL Hub. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ukri.org/our-work/supporting-collaboration-in-the-uk/supporting-collaboration-esrc/all-p... |
Description | Aston - The 'P-word' Knowledge into Practice Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A knowledge into practice event showcasing and reflecting on learning from the first year of the part PrOPEL funded "P-word" - a leadership development programme for ethnic minority creatives in the West Midlands. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.wearepunch.co.uk/blogs/pword-speakers |
Description | Blogs and web content: more than 40 items of web content added April 2023-March 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Blogs and web content: more than 40 items of web content added April 2023-March 2024 at www.propelhub.org and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/propel-hub-7288231ab/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
URL | http://www.propelhub.org |
Description | CIPD Applied Research Conference mini podcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Mini podcast on MPEE findings on innovation in HR practice |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | CIPD People Profession Survey with Universities of Ulster and Strathclyde |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | An first in-person event at the University of Strathclyde in collaboration with the CIPD and Ulster University on findings from their People Profession Survey. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/cipd-people-profession-survey/ |
Description | Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development Applied Research Conference Video Showcase |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The PrOPEL Hub MP-EE project teams delivered a 5 video showcase at the CIPD Applied Research Conference. These videos outlined the major research projects underpinning the hub and funded by the ESRC thatexplore links between workplace practice and productivity. • Getting to grips with productivity in ethnic minority businesses - Aston University • Managerial competences, engagement and productivity - developing productive relationships - University of Sheffield • Transforming Productivity and Wellbeing Through Engagement & Innovation - University of Strathclyde • Workplace Wellbeing Interventions - University of East Anglia • The Impact of Homeworking on Productivity - Cardiff University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/management-practice-and-employee-engagement/ |
Description | Chartered Management Institute Career Confidence Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk on job crafting as a route to career innovation at the Chartered Management Institute Career Confidence event, Glasgow, 27 February |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/colinlindsay_i-very-much-enjoyed-speaking-at-this-week-activity-71691... |
Description | Cited in the Financial Times Feature 'Remote Work' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Alan Felstead's research as part of the PrOPEL Hub into the impact of homeworking on productivity featured in the Financial Times piece 'Remote Work.' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ft.com/content/38f3389e-e792-4062-91fc-2da888d9010a?sharetype=blocked |
Description | City of Glasgow College: Nautical & STEM ED&I Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Panel presentation on flexible working and EDI strategies' benefits for STEM and nautical engineering businesses. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Conference (Glasgow) - Kevin Daniels and Helen Fitzhugh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Outlined main insights from MPEE projects |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Conference presentation PrOPEL Hub |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Follow-ups with delegates |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Content for PrOPEL Hub Website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | We have continued to build an online repository of blogs, podcasts, videos, infographics and toolkits for our website. The 200+ pieces of content developed explore the impact of management practice and employee engagement on productivity across 5 broad themes; managing people, employee engagement, boosting innovation, encouraging diversity and improving wellbeing. We have also used this as a means of delivering knowledge into practice style interventions such as the UEA/ Strathclyde Embedding Resilience Mini Series, which included a range of mini-concept videos exploring resilience. The website has attracted 11,700+ users and 48,000+ page views to date. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://www.propelhub.org |
Description | Cross Hub series of 7 webinars and workshops in our "Spotlight on Health & Social Care Series" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Delivered in partnership with the Healthcare People Management Association and featuring contributions from 8 different universities, PrOPEL Hub colleagues developed a "Spotlight on Health & Social Care" event and video series which drew on evidence gathered before and during the pandemic to explore the implications of Covid-19 for employment relations in the sector across the 4 UK nations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/spotlight-on-health-and-social-care-event-series/ |
Description | Cross-hub - Half day workshop "The Silent Majority: A deep dive on business support for microbusinesses" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This half day workshop led by Professor Monder Ram brought together a number of hub partners and the CIPD, FSB, businesses owners and other key stakeholders to explore challenges and solutions to providing more effective and inclusive people management support for microbusinesses. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/the-silent-majority-a-deep-dive-on-people-management-support-for-microbusi... |
Description | EDI in male-dominated sectors - case study insights webinar, December 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | EDI in male-dominated sectors - case study insights webinar, December 2023. An online webinar helped HR and business leaders develop insights from research on equality and diversity strategies in male-dominated sectors. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | ESRC Festival of Social Sciences Events: Promoting wellbeing in the workplace |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | We held two different sessions on 31 October as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, focusing on evidence-based approaches to workplace wellbeing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/promoting-wellbeing-in-the-workplace-an-evidence-based-approach-insights-f... |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Approximately 80 business and policy stakeholders attended presentations over two days from all ESRC PrOPEL Hub teams on issues including: work engagement; job crafting; conflict resolution; engaged scholarship and impact; job quality; workplace wellbeing; and public policy to promote engagement and productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/propel-hub-conference-6-7-march-glasgow-insights-uk-colin-kqzie/ |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A two day conference in November 2022 shared key insights from ESRC PrOPEL Hub research and KE activities. 79 participants attended. All ESRC PrOPEL Hub team members presented. Key stakeholder organisations such as the CIPD, CMI, ESRC and Scottish Enterprise also participated. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Engagement Hacks, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Members of the Strathclyde PrOPEL Hub team delivered three 'hacks' on supporting job crafting for engagement and innovation, engaging with two companies and approximately 40 people managers, London, 26-27 September. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Hackathon, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Four PrOPEL Hub institutions (Strathclyde, Ulster, Westminster and UEA) delivered a 'hackathon', in person, London 28 October - we welcomed 28 HR colleagues from 10 organisations, who engaged in KE with members from our different PrOPEL Hub institutions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Knowledge Into Practice Webinar: The new normal - good and bad workplace practices that are here to stay, 17 June 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The ESRC PrOPEL Hub Knowledge into Practice webinar "The new normal - good and bad workplace practices that are here to stay" was attended by 40+ HR and people professionals, and involved presentations from PrOPEL Hub team members at Ulster University, as well as external speakers from the academic and business communities and the CIPD. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Knowledge Into Practice webinar: People Management in Microbusinesses and the Impact of the Changing World |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | PrOPEL Hub Knowledge Into Practice webinar: People Management in Microbusinesses and the Impact of the Changing World, 5 October. The webinar, led by Prof Monder Ram, Aston University, featured input from four PrOPEL Hub colleagues, as well as talks from Be The Business, the Small Business Commissioner and a wide range of other stakeholders. 45 business and policy stakeholders attended. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Online Masterclass: People, performance and wellbeing in manufacturing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This online PrOPEL Hub Masterclass, hosted by Professor Fiona Lettice (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation at the University of East Anglia), involved invited academic and practitioner speakers to offer insight into people, performance and wellbeing in manufacturing organisations. Speakers from business and research communities joined PrOPEL Hub colleague Dr Helen Fitzhugh to share perspectives on dealing with issues of people, performance and wellbeing - around problem-solving, people-focused leadership and continuous improvement processes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/people-performance-and-wellbeing-in-manufacturing/ |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Webinar: Managing People for engagement, innovation, productivity and wellbeing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar led by PrOPEL Hub team member Prof Patricia Findlay, shared insights on how workplace practice can support engagement, wellbeing and productivity. There was discussion among business and academic stakeholders as to actions from the research and KE insights. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atD23_rTUic |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub Workshop: The Silent Majority: A Deep Dive on People Management Support for Microbusinesses, December 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | In December 2021, we held the first of a series of activities designed to advance the agenda on support for effective workplace practices in microenterprises. At the half day workshop, The Silent Majority: A Deep Dive on People Management Support for Microbusinesses, we were joined by representatives from across policy, business and academia to kick off a conversation and ask the question - how can we design more inclusive and effective support structures for micro businesses to improve employee engagement and management practice? The webinar was led by PrOPEL Hub member Prof Monder Ram (Aston), supported by ESRC PrOPEL Hub colleagues Prof Patricia Findlay (Strathclyde) and Prof Graeme Roy (Glasgow). A number of presenters from the academic and business communities also spoke and there was extensive discussion of the need for targeted support for small businesses. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/the-silent-majority-a-deep-dive-on-people-management-support-for-microbusi... |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub and CIPD Knowledge Into Practice event: Towards a Sustainable Action Research Community for Evidence-based HRM, SPARC event 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | ESRC PrOPEL Hub and CIPD Knowledge Into Practice event: Towards a Sustainable Action Research Community for Evidence-based HRM, SPARC event 1, in person, Glasgow, 12 Sept. This event, hosted by Strathclyde and CIPD PrOPEL Hub engaged 40+ HR stakeholders and researchers to exchange ideas on key priorities for evidence-based HRM. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub and CIPD Northern Ireland Knowledge Into Practice in-person event on Performance Management in Practice, Belfast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | ESRC PrOPEL Hub and CIPD Northern Ireland Knowledge Into Practice in-person event on Performance Management in Practice, Belfast 4 Aug. This event involved three PrOPEL Hub partners: Ulster University; University of Strathclyde; and CIPD. The event engaged 30+ HR professionals and stakeholders. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub and CIPD Sustainable Practice Action Research Community Event 2, Glasgow, January 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Strathclyde Business School and the CIPD hosted a 'SPARC' session in January 2023, welcoming 30 researchers and HR practitioners to share ideas together. Participants engaged in two interactive sessions about: key challenges for people management (and how the research community can help people managers to meet these challenges); and "what works" in evidence-based HRM. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub and ESRC InterAct Knowledge into Practice webinar: Empowering people to drive innovation in high-tech manufacturing, 14 April 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | In this ESRC PrOPEL Hub and InterAct Masterclass, leaders from cutting-edge manufacturer Peak Scientific shared insights on how the company has embraced organisational transformation, shifting from a centralised engineering department to a distributed model where multiple work groups and teams are empowered to collaborate and drive innovation. This session was chaired by Professor Colin Lindsay, Director of the PrOPEL Hub. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub and ESRC InterAct webinar: Navigating uncertainty: How HRM dynamic capabilities contribute to organizational well-being and performance, 14 April 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dr Paula Apascaritei & Professor Marta Elvira of IESE Business School, Madrid presented on how HRM can contribute to organisations' dynamic capabilities at this webinar chaired by Prof Colin Lindsay of ESRC PrOPEL Hub. There was substantial discussion of how HRM dynamic capabilities can help organisations navigate uncertainty and prepare their workforce for the challenges that are already in our midst: from labour shortages and hybrid work models to environmental uncertainties such as inequality, sustainability and artificial intelligence. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/navigating-uncertainty-how-hrm-dynamic-capabilities-contribute-to-organisa... |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub presentation at Advances with Field Experiments Conference, Chicago, 9 June 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | ESRC PrOPEL Hub team member Prof Richard Kneller (University of Nottingham) presented on Managing Digital Technologies: Evidence from a Field Experiment at the Advances with Field Experiments Conference, Chicago, 9 June 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub session at CIPD Applied Research Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Four members of the ESRC PrOPEL Hub team (drawn from Cardiff, Strathclyde and Westminster universities and the CIPD) presented insights at the CIPD Applied Research Conference, Manchester, January 2023. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub session, CIPD Applied Research Conference, January 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This session showcased some of the work of the ESRC PrOPEL Hub. Three short discussion sessions will highlighted: the latest evidence on the impact of homeworking on productivity and insights on how supporting 'job crafting' and good work at home or in the workplace can improve employee engagement and performance (led by Professor Patricia Findlay, University of Strathclyde and Professor Alan Felstead, Cardiff University) how both health and wellbeing strategies and interventions to improve line management can contribute to employee performance and wellbeing (led by Professor Richard Saundry, University of Westminster and Professor Kevin Daniels, Professor of Organizational Behaviour in Norwich Business School at UEA) how PrOPEL researchers have used a range of strategies to inform management decision-making from 'nudging' managers to make better/different investments by providing independent data analysis, to working with managers at the line to inform people management in SMEs (led by Dr Cher, Associate Professor in Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School and Professor Monder Ram, Aston University) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub sessions at Good Employment Learning Lab Festival of Engaged Scholarship |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Delivered multiple PrOPEL Hub sessions planned for Good Employment Learning Lab Festival of Engaged Scholarship. Seven PrOPEL Hub researchers from four different institutions shared PrOPEL Hub insights across six different sessions at the Festival in July. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub team-led online conference: Rights, regulation and resolution - developing a framework for better work |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Our Sheffield/Westminster ESRC PrOPEL Hub team-led online conference: Rights, regulation and resolution - developing a framework for better work, 27 September. This event brought together leading academic researchers with colleagues from FSB, CIPD, ACAS and many other stakeholder organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar - Putting Microbusinesses on the Agenda: The View from Policymakers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | On 15 March 2022, Prof Monder Ram and Aston University colleagues held a half day roundtable discussion, involving key stakeholders such the Federation of Small Businesses, the Charted Institute for Personnel and Development and the Low Pay Commission. We will be exchanging ideas and brainstorming solutions on: • The contribution of microbusinesses in helping us to level up and recover post-pandemic. • The impact of current business support initiatives such as the government's help to grow scheme and implications of the Levelling Up White Paper for microbusinesses • The role of public and private policymakers and the PrOPEL Hub in evolving more inclusive business support interventions that reflect the lived experience of microbusinesses; and • Approaches to policy development that involve microbusinesses in co-production Speakers included: Tim Butcher is Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary at the Low Pay Commission David Grimes is Principal Growth Consultant at Enable Growth Associates (formerly Head of Business Support, South Yorkshire MCA) Emelia Quist is Head of Policy at the Federation of Small Businesses Professor Monder Ram is Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship at Aston University Professor Graeme Roy is Dean of External Engagement in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow Professor Richard Saundry is Professor of HRM and Employment Relations at the University of Westminster Kitty Ussher is Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors Ben Willmott is Head of Policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Developmen |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar: Delivering Skilled Managers - a new approach to managerial training, 20 June 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | ESRC PrOPEL Hub hosted Delivering Skilled Managers - a new approach to managerial training webinar, led by Prof Richard Saundry, University of Sheffield, in collaboration with ACAS, with approx 500 participants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar: Management and Productivity in a Post-pandemic World |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | In this session chaired by Dr Cher Li (University of Nottingham and ESRC PrOPEL Hub), Professors Paul Mizen, Nick Bloom, John Van Reenen and Rebecca Riley, leading experts on management practices, business performance and industrial policy, explore future trends in management practices and productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/reimagine-management-and-productivity-in-a-post-pandemic-world/ |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar: Managerial Competences, Engagement and Productivity, 20 April 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | In this webinar, ESRC PrOPEL Hub members Professors Peter Urwin and Richard Saundry (University of Westminster) and Professor Paul Latreille (University of Sheffield), shared insights on their cutting-edge work with ACAS on developing and testing conflict management training for line managers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar: Productivity From Below: a unique approach to the use of Practitioner partners as Co-investigators |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | In this ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar, the team shared insights from their award winning ESRC-funded research Productivity from Below, which is co-produced with practitioner partners and uses academic research to address and boost productivity practices in disadvantaged micro business communities in the West Midlands. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/propel-hub-research-showcase/ |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar: The Importance of Family, History and Place for Trade Union Membership |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | In this ESRC PrOPEL Hub Research Showcase video Rhys Davies, Professor Alan Felstead of ESRC PrOPEL Hub and Professor Alex Bryson explore the importance of family, history and place in supporting favourable attitudes towards union membership. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/the-importance-of-family-history-and-place-for-trade-union-membership/ |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub webinar: Wellbeing and productivity - Can you have it all?, 2 December 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This ESRC PrOPEL Hub research showcase webinar offered insight into work on workplace wellbeing and productivity at the University of East Anglia and RAND Europe. It discussed selected research findings informing an evidence-based online wellbeing toolkit, which launched in 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/eventbrite-event/wellbeing-and-productivity-can-you-have-it-all/ |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The ESRC PrOPEL Hub website hosts an extensive range of video recorded webinars and Knowledge Into Practice events, toolkits, podcasts and blogs. The website hosts more than 180 items of web content. The website has assisted ESRC PrOPEL Hub to disseminated action-oriented content to a wide international audience. There have been 65,000+ page views from 18,244 visitors to our website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
URL | http://www.propelhub.org |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Hub, UEA and Productivity East event on "Good Practice in Management and Supervision", 5 April 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dr Helen Fitzhugh, UEA and ESRC PrOPEL Hub, led this interactive event on how management practice can design good jobs and build sustainable businesses. The event was delivered in Norwich in partnership with Productivity East. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC PrOPEL Webinar: Skilled Managers: A Multi-organisation Cluster RCT, 3 August. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Our Westminster/Sheffield ESRC PrOPEL Hub partners developed and delivered the Webinar: Skilled Managers: A Multi-organisation Cluster RCT, 3 August. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Economic regulation in times of cost-of-living and productivity challenges, talk to Ofcom Scotland by Prof Cher Li, University of Nottingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Economic regulation in times of cost-of-living and productivity challenges, talk to Ofcom Scotland by Prof Cher Li, University of Nottigham |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cher-li_regulation-digital-digital-activity-7118304516852076544-4Skz?... |
Description | Engagement with ACH & Aston Hackathon Event supported by Enactus, Prof Monder Ram |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Engagement with ACH & Aston Hackathon Event supported by Enactus, Prof Monder Ram sharing evidence-based insights from PrOPEL Hub |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://x.com/CREMEatAston/status/1693932515239534849?s=20 |
Description | Expert Panel Member - Scottish Government proposed Centre for Workplace Transformation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Expert panel member to develop a proposal to establish a Centre for Workplace Transformation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | Expert panel - CIPD Scotland Good Work Index |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Podcast for CIPD Scotland on analysis of Good Work Index data for Scotland 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Expert panel member, SCDI Productivity Matters Conference 2022, Edinburgh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Expert panel member on work engagement for innovation at industry conference, sharing insights from MPEE research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/events/productivity-matters-2022/ |
Description | Fair work and health: presentation to Department of Work and Pensions Areas of Research Interest Workshop by Prof Colin Lindsay, Glasgow, 4 Oct 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Fair work and health: presentation to Department of Work and Pensions Areas of Research Interest Workshop by Prof Colin Lindsay, Glasgow, 4 Oct 2023 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/activities/fair-work-and-health-presentation-to-dwp-areas-of-rese... |
Description | Felstead, A (2020) 'Examining the recent surge in homeworking, its effect on productivity and its long-term future', paper presented to the Cardiff University Business Breakfast Series/PrOPEL Master Class, Working at Home: The Impact of Covid-19' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Showcase research results. Nearly 300 registered participants, 135 atttended on the day, 35 questions from the floor (fielded live and after the event) and list of materials sent to all registered participants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Felstead, A (2020) 'The growth of working at home and its productivity consequences: worker and employer survey evidence', paper given to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Coronavirus Webinar Series, 22 October 2020. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | 365 were registered to attend the event, 186 attended the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.cipd.co.uk/news-views/coronavirus/webinars/remote-working-maintaining-productivity-22-oc... |
Description | Five insight and networking sessions for Voluntary Norfolk members (VCSE orgs) on the five sections of the Evolve toolkit guide. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Five insight and networking sessions for Voluntary Norfolk members (VCSE orgs) on the five sections of the Evolve toolkit guide. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | HR Hackathon - Kevin Daniels, Sara Connolly, Helen Fitzhugh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Outlined main insights from MPEE projects in small groups discussions with applications to own organisation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Hack on job crafting with facilities services teams |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Hack on job crafting with teams at Alba Facilities Services, informing people management practice through evidence. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Hack on job crafting with financial services managers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Hack/workshop with Johnston Carmichael managers on job crafting for innovation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Improving National Workplace Health and Wellbeing - workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Event organised by Government Events. HR managers from public sector organisations, local authorities in particular. Slides and line-up https://www.governmentevents.co.uk/vhghgfuuiguiggou/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.governmentevents.co.uk/vhghgfuuiguiggou/ |
Description | Input to Good Employment Learning Lab seminar, Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Colin Lindsay shared insights from ESRC PrOPEL Hub's work at the Good Employment Learning Lab seminar, Manchester, 21 November. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Interview for national radio programme - Does work have to be miserable? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Expert interview for BBC Radio 4 one hour programme on the quality of work, including the importance of job design that gained attention on social media. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/23fs1rydvxf6TL51Hn60wmm/5-things-that-make-us-happy-at-wor... |
Description | Invited presentation (Findlay), Work and Wellbeing: Levelling up the UK Webinar, Institute for the Future of Work |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentations and discussion on the potential role of fair work in recovery plans and levelling up across the country. All panellists discussed the role of good work in building strong, resilient communities across the country; building the conditions of good work to reduce growing inequalities in work and health; and how best to align health, social and economic interests in recovery plans. The audience was primarily the UK cross-parliamentary group on the future of work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ifow.org/event/work-and-wellbeing-levelling-up-the-uk |
Description | Job crafting for change session at CIPD Applied Research Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Colin Lindsay shared insights on job crafting for change - drawing on ESRC PrOPEL Hub insights - at an interactive session targeting HR practitioners at the CIPD Applied Research Conference, Manchester, January 2023. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | Job crafting for distributed leadership hack |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Hack/session with financial services business leaders to impart evidence-based insights on promoting job crafting and distributed leadership, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/propel-hub-7288231ab_leadingchange-collaboration-leadership-activity-... |
Description | Job crafting for engagement presentation at the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management online conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Colin Lindsay shared insights from PrOPEL Hub's work on job crafting for engagement at the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management online conference, 9 November. 2023 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Joint workshop with the University of East Anglia and Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity - Workplace wellbeing in a pandemic |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A small, focused workshop run by Helen Fitzhugh and the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity which allowed participants to explore wellbeing solutions within the context of their own organisations and share ideas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Key Note speech at the European Forum organised by the Universities of Oxford and Peking |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professor Graeme Roy provided a key note speech at the European forum on the impact of homeworking on productivity and job quality. This provided an opportunity to showcase the work of the hub. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Knowledge Exchange Bootcamp for Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Knowledge Exchange Bootcamp for Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences - PrOPEL Hub KE researchers led a 2.5 day workshop imparting KE and impact skills to early career researchers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/first-propel-hub-knowledge-exchange-bootcamp-inspiring-an-engaged-scholars... |
Description | Knowledge Into Practice session at Universities Human Resources Conference, Stirling |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Knowledge Into Practice session at Universities Human Resources Conference, Stirling, 29 November |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.uhr.ac.uk/eventbooking/View?id=5590 |
Description | Knowledge into Practice: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace and The Role of Flexible Working, 23 November |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Knowledge into Practice: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace and The Role of Flexible Working, 23 November - workshop with business leaders on flexible working and EDI strategies' impacts on performance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/workplace-equality-diversity-inclusion-and-the-role-of-flexible-working/ |
Description | Launch of Hard Work Substack - aimed at organisational leaders, HR and policymakers by Westminster and Sheffield PrOPEL Hub teams |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Westminster and Sheffield PrOPEL Hub teams used Substack to platform a shared learning community with people managers on conflict resolution. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Launch of toolkit - Evolve Workplace Wellbeing (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | All day event to promote new toolkit. Two events at the British Academy in London. am - Policy Launch with members of DWP and HSE = full research presentations, pm - public launch with business practitioners (some from our case study organisations). Overview presentations. Kevin Daniels, Helen Fitzhugh, Sara Connolly, Marijana Baric, Ritchie Woodard, David Watson, Christian van Stolk, Sharon Da Cunha participated. Several participating organisations have engaged with the toolkit including working with the team to develop and implement new wellbeing strategies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://evolveworkplacewellbeing.org/ |
Description | Masterclass - Managing people for engagement, innovation, productivity and wellbeing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of early MPEE research findings across PrOPEL Hub team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/eventbrite-event/managing-people-for-engagement-innovation-productivity-an... |
Description | Masterclass - Partnership working and work engagement in NHS Scotland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Masterclass with PrOPEL Hub and Healthcare Management Association on social and employee relations innovation in NHS Scotland |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/eventbrite-event/partnership-working-and-work-engagement-in-nhs-scotland/ |
Description | Masterclass - Taking a Strategic Approach to Management of Workplace Conflict |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This event explored approaches to developing a more strategic approach to conflict management. Presentations were given by the PrOPEL Hub's Prof Richard Saundry and leading experts from the USA, Associate Professors Ariel Avgar (Cornell University) and Ryan Lamare (University of Illinois). This was followed by an interactive Q&A allowing participants to apply learnings to the context of their own organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/taking-a-strategic-approach-to-management-of-conflict/ |
Description | Masterclass: Our Shared Digital Future - Managing People for Innovation and Fairwork |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Masterclass examining the skills and ways of organising work that will be needed as businesses more towards technology-enabled workplaces post-Covid-19; how people management can support employees at all levels to innovate and so maximise the benefits of digital investment; and how we can ensure that digital innovation helps to deliver fair work and better jobs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/our-shared-digital-future-managing-people-for-innovation-and-fair-work/ |
Description | Member, Prosper Peer Works Advisory Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Member, Advisory Group for Prosper Peer Works productivity clubs |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
URL | https://peerworks.scot/about/ |
Description | Nottingham - International Research Seminar "Reimagine Management and Productivity in a Post-pandemic World" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In this session chaired by the PrOPEL Hub's Dr Cher Li, Professors Paul Mizen, Nick Bloom, John Van Reenen and Rebecca Riley - leading experts on management practices, business performance and industrial policy - explored future trends in management practices and productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/reimagine-management-and-productivity-in-a-post-pandemic-world/ |
Description | Online meeting with CMI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussing research underpinning the business case calculator |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Our Shared Digital Future - Managing People for Innovation and Fairwork |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Masterclass on the skills and ways of organising work that will be needed as businesses more towards technology-enabled workplaces post-Covid-19; how people management can support employees at all levels to innovate and so maximise the benefits of digital investment; and how we can ensure that digital innovation helps to deliver fair work and better jobs. Co-organised across the Strathclyde MPEE project and the PrOPEL Hub. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/our-shared-digital-future-managing-people-for-innovation-and-fair-work/ |
Description | People Management Hackathon, Belfast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | People Management Hackathon, Belfast bringing together PrOPEL Hub experts with HR and business leaders to engage in impactful tools supporting evidence-based HRM. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/reflections-on-the-esrc-propel-hub-people-management-hackathon-belfast-29-... |
Description | People Management Hackathon, Sheffield |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | People Management Hackathon, Sheffield bringing together PrOPEL Hub experts with HR and business leaders to engage in impactful tools supporting evidence-based HRM. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/reflections-on-the-esrc-propel-hub-people-management-hackathon-sheffield-1... |
Description | Podcast - Reflections on the CIPD Good Work Index 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Podcast on the findings of the 2021 CIPD Good Work Index survey |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/reflections-on-the-cipd-good-work-index-2021/ |
Description | PrOPEL Feature in the Herald Newspaper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Professor Graeme Roy wrote a feature on the PrOPEL Hub for the national newspaper the Herald showcasing research on the impact of homeworking on productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/18682641.graeme-roy-re-birth-towns-covid-will-need-genuin... |
Description | PrOPEL Hub Showcase at the CIPD Applied Research Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The PrOPEL Hub's research teams inputted into a PrOPEL Hub showcase chaired by Prof Colin Lindsay at the CIPD's Applied Research Conference 2022. The sessions offered an opportunity to sharing findings from the MP-EE and other PrOPEL research and explore synergies and overlap between them. Topics covered included: The latest evidence on the impact of homeworking on productivity and insights on how supporting 'job crafting' and good work at home or in the workplace can improve employee engagement and performance (led by Professor Patricia Findlay, University of Strathclyde and Professor Alan Felstead, Cardiff University) How both health and wellbeing strategies and interventions to improve line management can contribute to employee performance and wellbeing (led by Professor Richard Saundry, University of Westminster and Professor Kevin Daniels, Professor of Organizational Behaviour in Norwich Business School at UEA) How PrOPEL researchers have used a range of strategies to inform management decision-making from 'nudging' managers to make better/different investments by providing independent data analysis, to working with managers at the line to inform people management in SMEs (led by Dr Cher, Associate Professor in Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School and Professor Monder Ram, Aston University) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://events.cipd.co.uk/events/blog/session/workshops-registration-and-networking/ |
Description | PrOPEL Hub Website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We developed and launched the PrOPEL Hub website in June 2020 which has attracted over 5000 visitors. To date we have developed 70+ pieces of web content for the site including blogs, podcasts, checklists, infographics and videos exploring links between management practice, employee engagement and productivity. Examples of content can be found at www.propelhub.org. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/ |
Description | PrOPEL Hub Workplace Wellbeing Hack, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh. PrOPEL Hub workplace wellbeing workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | PrOPEL Hub and OPOF (MoJ) meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Meeting with the Our People Our Future programme directors at Ministry of Justice, to discuss a PrOPEL Hub workshop or other form of engagement between us and them on wellbeing and performance |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | PrOPEL Hub session and CIPD Annual Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | PrOPEL Hub researchers held a 75 minute session at the CIPD conference delivering evidence-based insights on engagement and wellbeing for people managers and HR practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://events.cipd.co.uk/cipdace/conference-agenda |
Description | Presentation at SCDI Productivity Club Central event on fair work, engagement and innovation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation at SCDI Productivity Club event on what builds good work and the role of engagement in driving innovation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/events/central-productivity-club-presents-fair-work/ |
Description | Presentation at the CIPD Employee Engagement & Performance Management Conference - University of Sheffield |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professors Paul Latreille and Richard Saundry, together with Gemma Glanville from Border Force provided a keynote talk on developing line managers capability to handle workplace conflict and safeguard productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://events.cipd.co.uk/events/employee-engagement-and-performance-management/ |
Description | Presentation for the Good Employment Learning Lab Festival of Engaged Scholarship (local and virtual) - "Translating evidence and helping concepts to travel " |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh - Talk discussing PrOPEL Hub knowledge exchange practice |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation to Inspiring Innovation in Cancer Care webinar, Prof Colin Lindsay, 14 November 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to Inspiring Innovation in Cancer Care webinar, Prof Colin Lindsay, 14 November 2023 - sharing insights on leadership for workplace innovation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/colinlindsay_inspiring-innovation-on-cancer-care-seminar-activity-713... |
Description | Presentation to the Wales Productivity Forum by Prof Alan Felstead, Cardiff University, 11 October 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation to the Wales Productivity Forum by Prof Alan Felstead, Cardiff University, 11 October 2023 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Productivity Club Central presents Fair Work webinar, 10 March |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Colin Lindsay shared insights with business leaders on how workplace practice supporting fair work can facilitate employee wellbeing and productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/events/central-productivity-club-presents-fair-work/ |
Description | Seminar - Managing people for workplace innovation, productivity and wellbeing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Seminar to postgraduate research students on early findings from the MPEE research project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Series of Knowledge into Practice Sessions by CREME at Aston University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship ran a series of knowledge in practice events in 2021 including: Aston/ CREME Conference Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship in the West Midlands: Responding to the Pandemic (Research Seminar) https://sway.office.com/o4QLkStfn1SQ6mez?ref=Link Strengthening connections between business schools and ethnic minority businesses workshop https://sway.office.com/KX5DqXNcGj9jBWc6?ref=Link Helping Business Owning Families Through the Great Wealth Transfer - symposium Commissioning Cycle Workshop https://sway.office.com/fXv20fOvczRxXUmt |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Sheffield - Knowledge into Practice Event "It's good to talk" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In this workshop, Professor Richard Saundry from the University of Sheffield and Professor Peter Urwin from the University of Westminster worked with participants to identify ways that organisations can promote early and informal intervention to resolve conflict. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://propelhub.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Its-good-to-talk-developing-effective-informa... |
Description | Sheffield - Knowledge into Practice Event "Workplace Mediation" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The PrOPEL Hub's Prof Richard Saundry chaired an interactive panel discussion with Rachel Suff, CIPD; Caroline Sheridan, Civil Mediation Council and Terry Duffy, NW Area Director of Acas focused on utilising mediation to effectively resolve conflict that can be directly applied in the workplace. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/workplace-mediation/ |
Description | Sheffield/Westminster Keynotes at 2 x Acas Regional Conferences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Westminster/ Sheffield PrOPEL team spoke at the following two Acas conferences to audiences of 150+ per event and drew on scenarios developed as part of the MPEE project: R.Saundry spoke at Acas East of England Conference 'Demistifying Mediation' on 8th September 2021 R.Saundry and P. Urwin spoke at Acas London Conference 'Preventing, containing, and resolving conflict' on 9th February 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
URL | https://events.chamber-business.com/events/acas-demystifying-mediation-digital-conference/ |
Description | Skilled Managers Community launch: Conflict, Challenge and Opportunity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Skilled Managers Community launch: Conflict, Challenge and Opportunity - online launch of shared learning network focusing on evidence-based approaches to conflict management. More than 500 stakeholders signed up for the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/propel-hub-7288231ab_skilled-managers-conflict-challenge-and-activity... |
Description | Social Media Workshop for Restauranters |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | In collaboration with the Bangladeshi Network and Aston Business School's Business Clinic, the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship at Aston University has supported the development of a training intervention aimed at facilitating digital transformation in the Bangladeshi catering sector. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/facilitating-digital-transformation-in-the-bangladeshi-catering-sector/ |
Description | Stakeholder engagement with human resource professionals on the importance of effective employee voice |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation to workshop of HR professionals on the importance of, and outcomes associated with, employee voice as a central component of job quality. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Strathclyde Economic Policy Leadership Programme - Changing Nature of the Labour Market |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Shared lessons from PrOPEL Hub research on the importance of workplace practices and progressive people management as a route to improved innovation and productivity performance in organisations. The audience was Scottish Government officials, local government and public sector stakeholders and some business managers. The aim was to inform thinking and practice on work organisation and people management to improve employee wellbeing, performance and productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Strathclyde International Research Seminar - Employee Wellbeing Before vs. During Covid-19: Evidence from Finland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Chaired by Colin Lindsay, this seminar discussed changes in homeworking and teleworking, changes in working conditions, and impacts on employee experience and wellbeing. Key note speakers were Professor Jari Hakanen and Dr Janne Kaltiainen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health who drew on longitudinal survey research undertaken with employees in Finland before and then during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Strathclyde Masterclass - the role of Line Managers in encouraging workplace innovation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professor Colin Lindsay chaired this event and was joined by Dr Anna Bos Nehles from the University of Twente and Liz Reilly and Suzanne Thomas from the Scottish Government/ NHSScotland. The event explored theory and practice on the key role of line managers in encouraging workplace innovation and employee engagement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/implementing-hrm-and-innovation-the-role-of-line-managers-2/ |
Description | THE P WORD: Developing a Business Plan |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Intensive support for minority ethnic entrepreneurs based on evidence-based practice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | THE P WORD: Financial Management for Start Ups and Early-Stage Business |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | THE P WORD, Financial Management for Start Ups and Early-Stage Business: providing evidence-based insights for ethnic minority business leaders. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | THE P WORD: Leadership |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | THE P WORD: Leadership delivered evidence-based insights for ethnic minority business leaders. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | THE P WORD: Presenting and Pitching |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | THE P WORD, Presenting and Pitching: delivering insights on evidence-informed business management for ethnic minority entrepreneurs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | THE P WORD: Social Media and Digital Marketing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | THE P WORD, Social Media and Digital Marketing: sharing insights with ethnic minority small business leaders on evidence-based management practice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk given to WISERD 2022 conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Follow-ups after the event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Talk given to the CIPD ARC 2023 conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Follow-ups after the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk on fair work and job crafting to Help To Grow Alumni event, Colin Lindsay and Patricia Findlay, Glasgow, March 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk on fair work and job crafting to Help To Grow Alumni event, Glasgow, March 2023 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/help-to-grow-management-%E2%80%93-strathclyde-business-school_helptog... |
Description | Talk to CIPD North of England Independent Consultants Network by Prof Colin Lindsay, 5 June 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk to CIPD North of England Independent Consultants Network by Prof Colin Lindsay, 5 June 2023, sharing insights on the use of evidence to inform HRM |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sophiemtothill_independent-consultants-in-northern-england-activity-7... |
Description | Talk to Crafting Sustainable Medical Careers Symposium, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and UCL, London, 14 July 2023 by Prof Colin Lindsay |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk to Crafting Sustainable Medical Careers Symposium, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and UCL, London, 14 July 2023 by Prof Colin Lindsay: Job crafting in health and care |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.fmlm.ac.uk/sites/default/files/content/events/attachments/Crafting%20sustainable%20medic... |
Description | The British Academy Lecture: Fair Work for out Future? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture as part of The British Academy Lectures, in conjunction with The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, with Q&A session afterwards, networking reception, and video posted on British Academy website. Lecture open to the public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectures/fair-work-for-our-future/ |
Description | The P-Word - Follow up Engagement Hacks with 3 Organisations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Leading directly from the P-Word Leadership Development programme supported by the PrOPEL Hub in 2020, colleagues at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship at Aston went on to provide more in depth business support hacks on a range of issues to 3 firms (2 creatives and 1 retailer) who had participated in the programme, including diagnostic business planning/appraisal and financial advice/referral. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | The PrOPEL Hub Research Showcase - series of 5 events |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our research showcase seminar series has shared learnings from our partner's work with MP-EE and other ESRC productivity investments. These sessions have engaged a largely academic audience of approx 200 (primarily researchers on ESRC MPEE projects and their research partners) and generated significant follow up interest in our research. For example our session "The Importance of Family, History and Place for Trade Union Membership" which introduced a UnionMaps tool, directly contributed to over 4000 additional visits to the linked website in the 2 weeks that followed. It also created significant social media interest (e.g. https://twitter.com/searchq=https%3A%2F%2Fwiserd.ac.uk%2Funionmaps&src=typed_query&f=top and https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1450842145577897986) Sessions held as part of this series included: - The Importance of Family, History and Place for Trade Union Membership - Managing People for engagement, innovation, productivity and wellbeing. - Productivity From Below. A unique approach to the use of Practitioner partners as Co-investigators - Wellbeing and Productivity: Can you have it all? - Information Provision and Web Performance |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/propel-hub-research-showcase/ |
Description | Two online workshops on the basics of workplace wellbeing for a publicity campaign for Evolve, focusing on gaining new interest from private sector businesses, via existing business networks. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Two online workshops on the basics of workplace wellbeing for a publicity campaign for Evolve, focusing on gaining new interest from private sector businesses, via existing business networks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | UEA - International Research Seminar "Work/Life Experiences During the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the USA" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In this PrOPEL Hub International Research seminar, Dr Tahira Probst and the PrOPEL Hub's Professor Sara Connolly shared evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on employee health, safety, and performance with a primarily academic audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/work-life-experiences-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ |
Description | UEA - Knowledge into Practice event on "5 Ways to Wellbeing" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Helen Fitzhugh in collaboration with Norfolk Chamber of Commerce delivered a Knowledge into Practice event with wellbeing practitioners focused on strategies for employee wellbeing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/DrFitzhugh/status/1376849019499130883 |
Description | UEA - Masterclass "People, Performance and Wellbeing in Manufacturing" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Fiona Lettice (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation at the University of East Anglia) hosted this Masterclass featuring academic and practitioner speakers offering insight into people, performance and wellbeing in manufacturing organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/people-performance-and-wellbeing-in-manufacturing/ |
Description | UEA - Series of Engagement Hack on "5 Ways to Wellbeing" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Helen Fitzhugh held 3 knowledge into practice events with people professionals and managers at the Ministry of Defence exploring approaches to enhancing employee wellbeing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | UEA Wellbeing Engagement Hacks |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dr Helen Fitzhugh at the University of East Anglia ran two engagement hacks engaging senior managers and employees in a Finance company and Voluntary sector organisation. Topics covered included: Pro-active management of remote work for wellbeing and performance What does workplace wellbeing look like in a volunteering context? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | UEA and University of Strathclyde - Knowledge into Practice event "Embedding Resilience in the Everyday Workplace" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | At this interactive knowledge into practice session, the PrOPEL Hub's Drs Nicola Murray and Helen Fitzhugh offered insight into what a resilient organisation looks like on an everyday basis and explored with participants what their organisations could do to become more resilient. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/PrOPEL_Hub/status/1451479124917342208 |
Description | Ulster - International Research Seminar "Promoting Employee Engagement and Wellbeing During Challenging Times" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | At this International Research Seminar chaired by the PrOPEL Hub's Dr Martin McCracken, leading researcher Jamie Gruman from the University of Guelph, Ontario, shared insights from management and psychology research on how workplaces should be structured to optimise employee engagement and wellbeing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/promoting-employee-engagement-and-wellbeing-during-challenging-times-2/ |
Description | Ulster Masterclass - HR Business Partners: Evolving from operations to strategy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Event to provide insights from research and practice. Attended by 184 HR Business Partners, HR Professionals and line managers across the public, private and third sector, e.g. Police Scotland, BAE Systems, Sony, Cancer Research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Ulster and Strathclyde - Keynote and Content Showcase at CIPD Scotland and NI Annual Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The PrOPEL Hub ran a virtual content showcase and Profs Colin Lindsay and Martin McCracken delivered key note presentations on employee engagement and performance management at the CIPD Scotland and NI Conferences |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | University of Aston/ Punch Records Engagement Hack - the P-word leadership development programme |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The "P" Word is a nine-month leadership development programme for Birmingham-based artists and entrepreneurs. Co-designed with its participants, the workshop series is funded by the PrOPEL Hub and led by PUNCH and the CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ETHNIC MINORITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP - "CREME"- at Aston University Business School. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | University of Cardiff - International Research Seminar "HRM in the Public Sector - Does it work?" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | At this International Research Seminar, Alex Bryson of the Social Research Institute University College London shared findings on effectively private HRM practices could be translated to the public sector. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/human-resource-management-in-the-public-sector-does-it-work/ |
Description | University of East Anglia Keynote at the CIPD webinar - How cost effective is workplace wellbeing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Sara Connolly provided a keynote speech at the CIPD webinar exploring the cost effectiveness of workplace wellbeing and links between wellbeing and productivity. This provided an opportunity to showcase the work of the PrOPEL Hub. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | University of East Anglia Keynote at the Fountain Partnership Culture Shock video series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Helen Fitzhugh of Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia joined Rebecca Lewis Smith from Fountain for a panel discussion exploring best practice in managing remote workers and how to mitigate the negative impacts of isolated and confined working. This event formed part of CultureShock, a series of events from UEA and Fountain, in collaboration with the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce and provided a platform to promote and showcase the work of the Hub. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/adapting-management-approaches-for-wellbeing-and-performance/ |
Description | University of East Anglia Knowledge Into Practice Wellbeing Series with Norfolk Chamber of Commerce |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Series of 2 Knowledge into Practice event and corresponding workshops run jointly by Dr Helen Fitzhugh and Norfolk Chamber of Commerce. These provided opportunity for attendees to explore strategies for implementing good workplace wellbeing practices and initiatives within their own organisation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/the-spangle-trap-how-to-improve-workplace-wellbeing-without-the-resources-... |
Description | University of East Anglia Masterclass - Workplace wellbeing in a pandemic |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This event explored challenges and opportunities to promote wellbeing while managing remotely in the current pandemic. Presentations from the PrOPEL Hub's Dr Helen Fitzhugh and a wellbeing practitioner were given, followed by an interactive Q&A allowing participants to apply learnings to the context of their own organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workplace-wellbeing-in-a-pandemic-16-november-2020-1200-1330-tickets-... |
Description | University of Nottingham keynote talk at the BSI Annual Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Richard Kneller and Cher Li presented at the 2020 British Standards Institute Conference outlining how standards are crucial component of a modern economic infrastructure and standards can play a prominent role in influencing business performance throughout the product lifecycle. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/how-can-standards-address-the-uk-productivity-problem/ |
Description | University of Sheffield - Knowledge into Practice Event "Reconnecting HR - Putting Conflict at the Heart of HR |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | At this workshop, experts in HR and conflict management discussed the practical implications of their research into the role of HR Practitioners in the management of workplace conflict. The research, which has been published in the Human Resource Management Journal and which was awarded the CIPD's Ian Beardwell Prize questions the centralisation of HR, the shift to business partnering and more remote models of HR management. Speakers included Richard Saundry, Professor of HRM and Employment Relations at The University of Sheffield; Virginia Fisher, Associate Professor in HR Studies, Plymouth Business School; Sue Kinsey, Associate Professor in HR Studies, Plymouth Business School; Jonny Gifford, Senior Advisor for Organisational Behaviour at the CIPD and Debbie Sanders, founder of specialist employee relations consultancy Make Work Better |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/workplace-conflict-workshop-series/ |
Description | University of Sheffield - Knowledge into Practice event "HR, Trade Unions & Line Managers-the golden triangle of conflict resolution" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Richard Saundry chairs this event featuring Jez Stewart (Prospect Union), Caroline Sandy (ACAS) and Debbie Sanders (Make Work Better). Our speakers took a practical look at the benefits of developing high-trust relationships between line managers, HR and trade union reps. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/workplace-conflict-workshop-series/ |
Description | University of Sheffield - Knowledge into Practice event "Workplace bullying in the cultural industry" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The PrOPEL Hub's Prof Richard Saundry chaired this Knowledge into Practice event featuring Dr Sam Farley and Dr Alexandra Woodall exploring how to prevent, mitigate, and/or solve bullying in the cultural industry and in all organisations in general. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/workplace-conflict-workshop-series/ |
Description | University of Sheffield Keynote at the Virtual Employee Engagement Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professors Richard Saundry and Paul Latreille provided a keynote talk on building managerial capability to manage conflict in the workplace and exploring links between effective conflict management and productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | University of Strathclyde - "Our Shared Digital Future: Managing People for Innovation and Fair Work" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This Masterclass was delivered in partnership with Glasgow City innovation District. Professor Colin Lindsay, Professor Patricia Findlay and Hannah Davidson explored how organisations can best align introduction of and investments in new technologies with people management strategies that empower employees to innovate and drive productivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.propelhub.org/our-shared-digital-future-managing-people-for-innovation-and-fair-work/ |
Description | University of Strathclyde - Engagement Hack "Workplace wellbeing and innovation" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A session with over 15 senior people managers at Abellio to explore approaches to enhance work engagement, including taking a strengths based approach to delivering feedback. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | University of Strathclyde - International Research Seminar "Leading from the Outside In" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Professor Colin Lindsay chaired a Masterclass "Leading from the Outside In", featuring Associate Professor Colin Fish, UCL Management school. The session focused on practical tips for using coaching as a leadership tool. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/PrOPEL_Hub/status/1420390883988590596 |
Description | University of Strathclyde - Knowledge into Practice event "Work Engagement in Practice" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | An interactive Knowledge into Practice workshop delivered by the PrOPEL Hub's Dr Nicola Murray. The session allowed a small group of people practitioners to explore the concept of workplace engagement and how it might be applied within the context of their own organisation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/PrOPEL_Hub/status/1397828386597318657 |
Description | University of Strathclyde - Knowledge into Practice event Women in Fintech |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | In this interactive session chaired by the PrOPEL Hub's Prof Patricia Findlay, a panel of female leaders in Fintech offered insights on how working from home creates more opportunities for women to participate in fintech development. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/PrOPEL_Hub/status/1448234054365716480 |
Description | University of Strathclyde workshop at Productivity Scotland Conference - What does the evidence say about employee engagement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professors Patricia Findlay and Colin Lindsay ran an interactive workshop as part of the Productivity Scotland Conference. This explored employee engagement for wellbeing and innovation with an audience of people practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/events/productivity-club-scotland-presents-productivity-matters-2020-edinbur... |
Description | Virtual - PrOPEL Hub hack follow-up call |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh sent links to relevant research, including elements of Evolve |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual - PrOPEL Hub hack follow-up call |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh - discussed actions taken since the networking session and gathered evaluation feedback |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual Masterclass (September 2021) People, performance and wellbeing in Manufacturing: A PrOPEL Hub Masterclass |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh: A collaboration with Productivity East to bring insight on wellbeing and performance in a Masterclass to the manufacturing sector. Introduced by PVC Fiona Lettice. Academic speaker Rebecca Pieniazek (Leeds University) and two practitioner speakers from Camden Boss and Domino Printing. Participants took away ideas to improve wellbeing and performance in their businesses |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Virtual Presentation to PrOPEL network (January 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Sara Connolly, Kevin Daniels, Helen Fitzhugh with William Philips from RAND. Presentation of MPEE project to the rest of the PrOPEL hub |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual Webinar - Good practice in management and supervision |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Productivity East webinar, Helen Fitzhugh offering insight into wellbeing business case for manufacturing then into four aspects of good management |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual Webinar Presentation (August 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh: Webinar covering 5 ways to wellbeing and the checklist for pro-active management of remote workers, including opportunities for comment and Q&A. MOD requested another session in October 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Virtual Webinar Presentation (July 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh: Webinar covering 5 ways to wellbeing and the checklist for pro-active management of remote workers, including opportunities for comment and Q&A. Information passed to Ministry of Justice too, MoD requested another session in August 2021 (much greater attendance) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Virtual Workshop. Embedding resilience in the everyday workplace - "Knowledge into Practice" (October 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh. Knowledge into Practice workshop event, co-hosted with PrOPEL Hub colleague Nicola Murray (Strathclyde). Used padlets for deeper engagement. Participants set an intention to take action to improve resilience / workplace wellbeing in their business in the next fortnight after the workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Virtual Workshop. Pro-active management of remote work for wellbeing and performance (February 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh. A PrOPEL Hub 'hack' workshop on wellbeing and performance. Each participant set an intention to make a change in their business and agreed to follow up in a month |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual Workshop: Everyone can take next steps in setting up a workplace wellbeing programme: Moving from 'knowing in theory' to 'doing in practice' (February 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh: 1 hour interactive workshop for Norfolk Chamber / PrOPEL Hub, expanding on the themes of the previous 'Spangle trap' webinar (February '21) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Virtual discussion "The Changing Workplace" - ideas for pro-active management and engagement of remote workers and retaining great talent (November 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh. Larking Gowan ran a webinar in association with FIGNorwich for the financial services sector. Helen Fitzhugh provided the academic panel contribution on remote working and wellbeing, alongside a trainee and partner offering their stories. Awareness-raising - members of the audience signed up to future events and 1-1 PrOPEL Hub hacks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Virtual meeting - Mental health in the workplace - the impact of the pandemic, work-life balance and support for employee wellbeing, and the role of employers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels- part of a roundtable discussion organised by Westminster Insights into developing workplace strategies for improving mental health |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (April) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (December) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (February) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (July) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (June) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (March) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (May) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (November) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (October) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting of Re-WAGE: Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (September) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kevin Daniels is a member of this ESRC-funded group of academics that produces policy briefings and other guidance for government departments of employment issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual meeting. FIG / ProPEL Hub collaboration meeting (December 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh. A meeting to see how our work for PrOPEL Hub can benefit FIGNorwich. Agreement to run an event together and for FIGNorwich to publicise PrOPEL Hub workshops |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Virtual meeting. Norwich food cluster/PrOPEL hub collaboration meeting (December 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh. A meeting to see how our work for PrOPEL Hub can benefit Norwich food cluster. Agreement to run an event together |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2021 |
Description | Virtual meeting. Productivity East/PrOPEL hub collaboration meeting (December 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh. A meeting to see how our work for PrOPEL Hub can benefit Productivity East. Agreement to run an event together |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Volunteer co-ordinators: Looking after volunteers, looking after ourselves - What does workplace wellbeing look like in a volunteering context? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation combining findings from the wellbeing and productivity project, good jobs project and the IVR volunteering REA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | What does the evidence say about employee engagement? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation by Findlay and Lindsay at Scottish Counicl for Development of Industry Productivity Matters Conference, online, 12 February 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/events/people-and-productivity-productivity-matters-conference-2021/ |
Description | Work with Innovation Growth Lab and Volute (Design consultancy) to develop an online intervention tool to improve management of technologies towards greener outcomes, led by University of Nottingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Work with Innovation Growth Lab and Volute (Design consultancy) to develop an online intervention tool to improve management of technologies towards greener outcomes, led by University of Nottingham - colleaborative working to develop greener outcomes tool that has since been used to inform management decision making among targeted companies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Workplace Innovation Workshop, People, Organisations and Work Institute, De Montford University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation at workplace innovation workshop to stimulate academic and policy interest in supporting workplace innovation to drive productivity and wellbeing in the East Midlands. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workplace Innovation and AI, Remarks to Prosper Scotland event "How AI can improve productivity within the construction sector" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk to construction business leaders about use of workplace innovation strategies to complement AI. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://prosper.scot/events/how-ai-can-improve-productivity-within-the-construction-sector/ |
Description | Workshop on setting up a workplace wellbeing programme: Moving from 'knowing in theory' to 'doing in practice' (Norwich) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Helen Fitzhugh - PrOPEL Hub hack on workplace wellbeing - interactive workshop. Business devised a new wellbeing strategy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |