Category Archives: Research

Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, Professor of Organisational Behaviour in the OU Business School, is leading on a project to research senior policing decision-making in the context of the radical uncertainties of the pandemic. Also involved in the project, which has been awarded an OU Covid-19 grant for £15,700, are Dr Nicky Miller and Dr Helen Selby-Fell in the Centre for Policing ResearchContinue reading “Policing project is financed by OU’s Covid-19 fund”

Dr Layla Branicki is Senior Lecturer in HRM and Organisation Studies, based in the OU Business School’s Department for People and Organisations (DPO). This article is based on a project conducted with Dr Senia Kalfa (Macquarie University, Australia) and Professor Stephen Brammer (University of Bath, UK) about how Australian organisations have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Research highlightsContinue reading “5 paradoxical tensions facing HR leaders”

The enormous impact of COVID-19 on the world has drawn comparisons with the first world war. Historian Niall Ferguson, for example, points to the financial panic, global reach, economic dislocation and popular alarm of both crises. Both events have cost the UK enormous sums, driving government debt today to over £2 trillion, equivalent to over 100% of GDP.Continue reading “Taxing financial winners from coronavirus to pay for the crisis – lessons from WW1”

Elizabeth Daniel, Professor of Information Management in the OU Business School, and her collaborators have completed the first stage of a COVID-19 Rapid Response grant of £178,000 by UK Research and Innovation and the Economic and Social Research Council under their COVID-19 research funding. Professor Daniel is working with collaborators from the University of Southampton andContinue reading “First findings on impact of COVID-19 on the UK self-employed”

This blog was written for this series by Dr Anwar Halari, Lecturer in Accounting in the OU Business School. Anwar’s current research is in the area of accountability and sustainability where he is investigating the role of accountants in the move towards sustainability, with a particular emphasis on the circular economy. Other areas of research he is alsoContinue reading “More sustainable universities in a post-COVID world?”

Dr Carol Jacklin-Jarvis, Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL), is part of a consortium awarded £44,000 by the Lloyds Bank Foundation for a four-month research project, ‘The Value of Small Charities in the Response To and Recovery From the COVID-19 Pandemic’. The project will develop and analyse four case studies and produceContinue reading “Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership leads COVID-19 research”

This blog was written for this series by Owain Smolović Jones, director of the OU’s Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures academic centre of excellence and senior lecturer in the Department for People and Organisations, Sanela Smolović Jones, director of the OU’s Gendered Organisational Practice research cluster and lecturer in the Department for People and Organisations and Kulsoom Jafri, an Acorn member and tradeContinue reading “‘Solidarity is a weapon’ – addressing the housing crisis together”

Dr Cinzia Priola, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Studies in the OU Business School and Dr Lara Pecis, Lecturer in Organisation Studies in Lancaster University Management School, have written a paper for Gender in Management. An International Journal. Their publication, ‘Missing voices: The absence of women from Italy’s COVID-19 pandemic response’, explores the role of Italian women in society andContinue reading “The absence of women from Italy’s COVID-19 pandemic response”

This blog is written by Dr Terry O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Management in the OU Business School. Terry’s subject-based research focuses on the use of marketing in the arts and for positive social change. The original blog was published on 29 May 2020 and can be accessed on the SCiLAB website. Sure you’ve got the time to read this? Then I’llContinue reading “Time is of the essence. Why don’t we spend more time teaching it?”