Here are the latest achievements and awards from our research centre :
- Denise Baden received the Environmental Biotechnology network sponsorship for a short story prize for Green Stories competition.
- Mina Beigi was awarded CD 66000.00 for a collaborative project entitled ‘Career Challenges and Strategies of LGBT+ Immigrants in Canada’ by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (2023-2025).
- Yehuda Baruch received a Research grant by La-Trobe Internal Investment Scheme, for “Ethnic diversity and women leadership in the Australian corporate sector: Successes and challenges” in 2023 (Co-Investigator): Aust$25,000 =~ £15,000.
- Sian Campbell captured HEIF funding of £20,750 and £24k from CTD Sustainable Infrastructure Systems to develop and deliver Sell Your Place, an enterprise education programme for schools and colleges.
- Sian Campbell was awarded £750 from the ESRC to run Make Your Place as part of the Festival of Social Sciences.
- Sian Campbell won a bid for £12,000 to Endometriosis UK to evaluate the impact of a women’s well-being intervention programme in SMEs.
- Trang Gardner, Jane Parry, Peter Rodgers (Southampton Business School), Brian Harcs (Geography), Dr Minh Tran (University of Da Nang), and Dr Sajeda Pervin (University of Southampton, Malaysia) secured funding for the British Academy's ODA International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2024. Their project explores female entrepreneurs' experiences in Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Vietnam, aiming to advance research in entrepreneurship and policy for economic development. The team will also support early career researchers in expanding networks and engaging in international interdisciplinary research.
- Tahir Nisar received £35,590 from HEIF to conduct research on ‘Deploying AI Technologies for Business Value: Opportunities and constraints’.
- Jane Parry has joined a team of subject representatives based in the UK Parliaments to act as bridges between the research community and national policy-makers to enhance the quality of the evidence that informs decision-making in Parliament. She is Parliament’s first Thematic Research Lead on Business, Economics and Trade. This initiative is part of a major investment by UKRI to ensure that the UK’s cutting-edge research base informs the policy process, and Jane will be based in Parliament for 3 days a week between 2024-2026.
- Jane Parry and Michalis Veliziotis were awarded £19,622 by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) to conduct organisational case studies on post-pandemic flexible working to inform the development of their Code of Practice for employers. The work for this was carried out in the period September 22 to August 23.
- Jane Parry and Peter Rogers were awarded £707 from FOSS to run a workshop in the ESRC Festival of Social Science on ‘Young People, Volunteering and Employability’, in collaboration with UoS careers service and Student Hub.
- COVID-19 focused projects: NHS ambulance performance in the NW (Peter Rodgers); dual-earner parents during lockdown (Mina Beigi); impact of COVID-19 on French managers & executives (Yehuda Baruch).
- the Department was awarded a UKRI/ESRC grant in their funding call for ideas that respond to COVID-19, for the project Work after Lockdown (PI Jane Parry; Co-I Yehuda Baruch; Co-I Mina Beigi; Co-I Michail Veliziotis; partnering with the Institute for Employment Studies and Half the Sky: £214,820).
- a KTP funded by UKRI/Innovate UK looking at gamification, agent motivation & job design (Tahir Nisar) with Execview, a London-based software provider firm that works with the public sector.
- research funded by the CIPD investigating the relationship between HR practice and the self-employed (David Cross).
- a project funded by the Arts Council England that explores new leadership and entrepreneurial career pathways in the arts (£585,284); this is a collaboration between The Point Theatre, Southampton Business School and cultural organisations in the south of England (Co-I @ HRM & OB, Yehuda Baruch).
- Denise Baden has developed her ESRC work on sustainability in the hairdressing curriculum by working with Green Salon Collective and brands such as Henkel, Wella, Davines and L’Oréal to embed more sustainable practices across the hair and beauty sector (www.ecohairandbeauty.com).
- Ai Yu received £12,289.60 from the Web Science Institute at UoS to conduct a pilot project on relational accountability in using AI for immigration and refugee decision-making.
- Naveena Prakasam, together with colleagues in the University of Sheffield, Northumbria University, and University of West of England, won £20,190 to research ecosystem enablers: supporting individuals and communities of researchers.