How is strategy work changing in organisations and what role have digital technologies played in these transformations? Dr Josh Morton and Professor Krsto Pandza discuss open strategy and how utilising digital platforms can lead to more transparency and inclusion in strategy work.  

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in May 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/230/podcast_episode_26_-_transcript

About the speakers: Krsto Pandza is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Leeds University Business School and Director of the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Engagement. His research interests lie at the intersection of strategy, technology innovation and organizational theory. Josh Morton is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Strategy and Innovation. Josh's research interests focus on strategy and innovation, including: strategy in pluralistic contexts, strategic agility, open strategy, legitimation, responsible innovation, digital innovation, and sustainability strategies. 
 
Related papers:

The digital work of strategists: Using open strategy for organizational transformation - https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/161148/

How Strategy Professionals Develop and Sustain an Online Strategy Community: The Lessons from Ericsson - https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/162977/

The changing nature of strategy work in organisations

Dr Annina Kaltenbrunner and Dr Bianca Orsi talk about the implications different types of currency internationalization have, particularly in the context of emerging markets, and discuss their research on the Brazilian real. They highlight the strategy of currency regionalisation, rather than full currency internationalisation, and introduce the SML – a South American regional payment mechanisms – which could support such a currency regionalisation.    

You can read the reports on currency internationalisation and on the SML on the project webpage.

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in May 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.

 Dr Annina Kaltenbrunner is Associate Professor in the Economics of Globalisation and the International Economy at Leeds University Business School. Her research focuses on money, finance and macroeconomic policy in developing and emerging economies . Dr Bianca Orsi is a Teaching Fellow in the Economics division, with research interests in monetary policy, inflation, capital controls, currency internationalization and currency hierarchy.

What is currency internationalization and why does it matter?

Afshan Iqbal (Leeds University Business School) and Lucy Gordon (Walker Morris) discuss working from home during the pandemic, and what employers need to think about when transitioning back to the office. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in June 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. For more information about The Future Workplace project, visit the webpage https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/dir-record/research-projects/1720/the-future-workplace. A transcript of this episode is available. 

About the speakers:  

Afshan Iqbal is an ESRC-funded postgraduate researcher at Leeds University Business School. Upon previously graduating from the Business School with an MSc in Management, Afshan went on to build a career in Financial Services, working as a Business Development Manager in the North East of England for a UK Life & Pensions company. Afshan’s first-hand experiences of remote and virtual working has inspired her research in this area. 

Lucy Gordon is a Director in the Employment Team at Walker Morris. She has over 15 years’ experience in advising national and international businesses on employment law. Lucy has particular expertise in advising on group restructures, TUPE and multi-jurisdictional redundancy programmes.

Transitioning back to the office

Dr Gary Graham speaks to John Barnett about the state of the automotive industry, its role in the Northeast, and the importance of digitalisation.  

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in July 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

About the speakers: Dr Gary Graham is Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management. His research focuses on disruptive innovation and its impact on supply chain management. John Barnett has over 30 years’ experience in manufacturing and engineering. He has previously been a plant director as well as Senior Vice President in the automotive industry.

The future of the automotive industry

Professor Vera Trappmann and Dr Zlatko Bodrožić talk about “green” research at Leeds University Business School, and why a system-level approach to sustainability is needed. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in March 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

About the speakers: Vera Trappmann is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, and Director of Sustainability at Leeds University Business School. Her research engages with the comparison of labour relations across Europe. Vera’s main research interests focus on the dynamics of organisational restructuring and its impact on working biographies, and organised labour. 

Dr Zlatko Bodrožić is a Lecturer in Technology, Organisation and Sustainability at Leeds University Business School. Zlatko's research focuses on the evolution of technologies, organisational paradigms/ management models, and public policy. In particular, he is interested in digital transformation and the sustainability of societies. 

They are both co-leaders of the Leeds University Business School System-level Sustainability (LESS) research group. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/divisions-management/dir-record/research-projects/1743/leeds-university-business-school-system-level-sustainability-less-research-group

Professor Vera Trappmann and Dr Zlatko Bodrožić

Professor Marina Papanastassiou speaks to Professor Peter Buckley about Global Value Chains (GVC) and the role of emerging market multinationals. They discuss how recent phenomena – Brexit, the pandemic, and the semiconductor chip shortage – have affected Global Value Chains. Professors Papanastassiou and Buckley also talk about the role the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL) plays in International Business (IB) theory development. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in October 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.  

Visit the CIBUL website for further information. 

About the speakers: Marina Papanastassiou is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is a member of the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL). Marina’s research interests include the global innovation strategies in multinationals (MNEs) and their network of overseas subsidiaries and R&D laboratories; the decision making process in MNEs and in particular the dynamics between HQs and subsidiaries; global value chains and the role of MNEs in SDGs such as food security; impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on growth and development; the internationalisation of start-ups, and the role of incubators in local systems of innovation. 

Peter Buckley OBE is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is the Founder/Director of CIBUL. His current research interests centre on the theory of the multinational firm; knowledge management in multinational firms; the international transfer of technology; the impact of foreign direct investment particularly in China; and outward direct investment from emerging countries: China and India.

Global Value Chains and the role of Emerging Market Multinationals

In this episode, Professor Kerrie Unsworth (Leeds University Business School) and John Steel (Cafédirect) discuss the tensions and potential trade-offs between social, environmental, and financial goals. Kerrie asks John about Cafédirect’s take on sustainability and social justice. 
 
This podcast episode was recorded remotely in December 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

Kerrie Unsworth is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Leeds University Business School. Her research focuses on how people juggle goals, tasks and identities and the effect this has on motivation and particular behaviours such as leadership, collaboration and pro-environmental behaviour. 
 
John Steel is CEO of Cafédirect. He is a business leader and social entrepreneur with a passion for making business a force for good. Under John’s leadership Cafédirect has returned to growth, become profitable and yet maintained its sustainability commitments to its producers. John is determined that Cafédirect, as one of the UK’s pre-eminent Social Enterprises, plays a pivotal role in leading the change agenda. John is a passionate and genuine believer in the need for real change in the way business contributes to society and the wider world.

A balancing act between sustainability and profitability

Dr Matthew Davis, Leeds University Business School, is joined by Professor Simon Rees, School of Civil Engineering, and Mike Burton, Director at AECOM. They talk about how developers and designers are making changes to offices for new ways of working. This includes: better ventilation, different technology for hybrid working, making the office more attractive for those used to working from home, and designing offices to be more accommodating for neurodiverse people. 

This project – Adapting Offices for the Future of Work – is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to Covid-19.  

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in January 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.   

About the speakers: Dr Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research centres on how people interact with their environments, the impact of different office designs and how businesses engage in CSR, particularly to address sustainability and modern slavery.  

Simon Rees is Professor of Building Energy Systems at the University of Leeds. His research interests are in the field of Building Engineering Physics and geothermal heating and cooling systems. These interests can be summarised as sustainable building design, energy simulation and dynamic thermal modelling methods, room heat transfer, thermal networks and geothermal systems. 

Mike Burton is Director for AECOM Building Engineering and also Director of the British Council for Offices Board of Management, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of CIBSE.  Mike has designed many award-winning international offices for both developers and occupiers and is currently leading the environmental design on a number of the next generation of sustainable, smart and healthy buildings. Mike has co-authored many key workplace publications including the 2019 RIBA Future Office book looking at trends in people, technology, procurement and materials, and published industry guidance documents on sustainable refurbishment, mothballing buildings and reopening the workplace.  Mike is currently a regional RIBA judge and national BCO judge, CIBSE Building Performance Engineer 2022 finalist, shortlisted for BCO NextGen Inspirational Leader of the Year 2020, and the 2021 winner of WICE Mentoring Awards.

How is office design changing to accommodate hybrid and new ways of working?

In this introductory episode, Dr Gabriella Alberti and Dr Jo Cutter talk about their three-year research project investigating the impact of the post-Brexit regulation migration for work on the UK labour market. The project looks at how employers and workers shape these mobility transitions and how they engage in dialogue with each other and with other stakeholders. It also considers how COVID-19 has impacted these transitions and dialogue.  

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/dir-record/research-projects/1870/labour-mobility-in-transition-a-multi-actor-study-of-the-re-regulation-of-migrant-work-in-low-skilled-sectors-limits 
This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

This episode was recorded on Monday 30 May 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this episode, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/275/podcast_episode_51_-_transcript
 
About the speakers: 

Dr Gabriella Alberti is an Associate Professor in Work and Employment Relations. Her research interests revolve around the conditions of workers at the bottom end of the labour market, whether on non-standard contracts, engaged in gig/platform work, excluded from social protections, migrants and minorities workers facing multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination and exclusion. 

Dr Jo Cutter is a lecturer in Work and Employment Relations. Her research focuses on the employment relations, social dialogue and the regulation of work with a core focus on skills, education and training.

Introducing the Labour Mobility In Transition project

Marketa Dolezalova is joined by Ewa Jamroz from Migration Yorkshire to find out more about the work Migration Yorkshire does. They discuss how recent immigration changes have impacted the ability of migrants to enter the workforce, the consequences of digitalizing the immigration system, and Migration Yorkshire’s plan for social inclusion in the region. 

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/dir-record/research-projects/1870/labour-mobility-in-transition-a-multi-actor-study-of-the-re-regulation-of-migrant-work-in-low-skilled-sectors-limits 
This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

This episode was recorded on Wednesday 13th July 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this episode, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

About the speakers: 
Dr Marketa Dolezalova is a Research Fellow in Labour Migration at Leeds University Business School. Her research interests revolve around migration, mobility, and the economic strategies of migrants, including mobility as both an economic strategy and as migrants’ social capital. 
Ewa Jamroz is a policy, data and development officer at Migration Yorkshire. She is the project lead for the Hong Kong Welcome Programme for BN(O) status holders coming to the UK through a new BN(O) visa route and policy lead for EU nationals (including Roma communities).

How recent changes to the immigration system have affected the Yorkshire and the Humber workforce

Dr Marketa Dolezalova is joined by Ewa Jamroz and Ewa Lelontko from Migration Yorkshire. Following on from the previous episode with Migration Yorkshire, Marketa, Ewa and Ewa talk about the main barriers for migrants entering the UK workforce, as well as examples of good practice from organisations.  

Visit the project webpage. This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

This episode was recorded on Wednesday 10th August 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this episode, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

About the speakers: Dr Marketa Dolezalova is a Research Fellow in Labour Migration at Leeds University Business School. Her research interests revolve around migration, mobility, and the economic strategies of migrants, including mobility as both an economic strategy and as migrants’ social capital. 

Ewa Jamroz is a policy, data and development officer at Migration Yorkshire. She is the project lead for the Hong Kong Welcome Programme for BN(O) status holders coming to the UK through a new BN(O) visa route and policy lead for EU nationals (including Roma communities). 

Ewa Lelontko is an employer engagement manager at Migration Yorkshire. Her role focuses on the economic integration of refugees and other migrants in Yorkshire & Humber.

The barriers migrants face when entering the UK workforce

Professor Vera Trappmann and Dr Dennis Eversberg launch their new podcast series – “Just Transitions – a global exploration”. Throughout the series, the research team will be discussing the findings of their country-specific case studies. In this introductory episode, Professor Trappmann and Dr Eversberg explain what is meant by Just Transitions, how the team came about selecting the 12 countries, and how they’ll be researching debates and practices surrounding Just Transitions throughout the project. 

This project is funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation – Just Transition: Aktivitäten im internationalen Vergleich 2021-582-2. 

Visit the project webpage: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/1990/just-transition-action-concepts-debates-and-strategies-an-international-comparison-across-11-countries

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in February 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.

About the speakers: 

Vera Trappmann is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School. Her research engages with the comparison of labour relations across Europe, focusing on the dynamics of economic and organisational restructuring and its impact on working biographies, and organized labour.  Digitalisation, precarity and climate change are areas of study. 

Dr Dennis Eversberg is a Junior Research Group leader at the University of Vienna, Germany. His research interests include socio-ecological mentalities and modes of living and their role within social-ecological transformations and conflicts, particularly those surrounding the so-called ‘bioeconomy’, the sociology of social-ecological movements, degrowth, and trade unions.

Introducing the “Just Transitions – a global exploration” project

Professor Jennifer Tomlinson speaks to Dr Jack Daly about his research that explores the role of men and masculinity in the gender pay gap, focusing on the legal and financial professions. They discuss how the gender pay gap can’t solely be closed by providing equal opportunities for women when careers remain structured in a way that disproportionately favours male behaviours and traits. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in March 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.  https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/296/international_womens_day_2023_research_podcast_series

About the speakers: Dr Jack Daly is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Work and Employment Relations. His research focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion in traditionally male-dominated industries, with a specific interest in the role of men as resistance to and facilitators of inclusive working practices.  

Jennifer Tomlinson is Professor of Gender and Employment Relations at the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change. Her research focuses on gender and social inequalities in organisational, occupational and labour market contexts.

The gender pay gap in the financial and legal services: why equal opportunities aren’t enough

Dr Asiya Islam (Leeds University Business School) is joined by Nishi Khandelwal (Nirantar) to discuss their research project on gender inequalities in digital India, exploring digital literacy, access and use. Asiya and Nishi also talk about the work Nirantar does, as well as the intersection between location (rural and urban), caste and gender when it comes to digital literacy in India. 

Read the working paper: https://digit-research.org/publication/gender-inequalities-in-digital-india-a-survey-on-digital-literacy-access-and-use/  

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/dir-record/research-projects/1946/gender-digital-technology-and-the-future-of-work-in-india  

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in March 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.    

About the speakers: Asiya Islam is Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations. Her research interests are in gender, class, emerging forms of work, particularly service work, and feminist research methods. 

Nishi Khandelwal heads the Women’s Literacy, Education, and Empowerment work at Nirantar, where she plays a crucial role in visualizing and planning the women's education programme, and training project staff and teachers of partner organisations. She is interested in researching issues around digital literacy of women and young girls to further strengthen their literacy and digital literacy skills.

Gender inequalities in digital India

Professor Marina Papanastassiou is joined by Professor Peter Buckley to discuss new challenges for multinationals in the fractured global economy, including political challenges, governance issues, and resilience in Global Value Chains. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in March 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.   

Visit the CIBUL website for further information about the research discussed in this episode. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cibul

About the speakers: Marina Papanastassiou is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is a member of the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL). Marina’s research interests include the global innovation strategies in multinationals (MNEs) and their network of overseas subsidiaries and R&D laboratories; the decision making process in MNEs and in particular the dynamics between HQs and subsidiaries; global value chains and the role of MNEs in SDGs such as food security; impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on growth and development; the internationalisation of start-ups, and the role of incubators in local systems of innovation. 

Peter Buckley OBE is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is the Founder/Director of CIBUL. His current research interests centre on the theory of the multinational firm; knowledge management in multinational firms; the international transfer of technology; the impact of foreign direct investment particularly in China; and outward direct investment from emerging countries: China and India.

New challenges for MNEs within fractures of the global economy

In this episode of the “Just Transitions - a Global Exploration” podcast, Ursula Balderson and Aleksander Szpor – members of the project team – discuss the role of the European Union in Just Transition policymaking and action in Poland. 

This project is funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation – Just Transition: Aktivitäten im internationalen Vergleich 2021-582-2. 

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/1990/just-transition-action-concepts-debates-and-strategies-an-international-comparison-across-11-countries

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in May 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

 
About the speakers: Ursula Balderson is a postdoctoral research associate on a project on Work, Labour and Climate Change. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist interested in how the transition to a greener economy can improve worker well-being and quality of life. 

Olek (Aleksander) Szpor is a Lead Consultant in Climate and Energy at Ecorys Research Consultancy Poland.

Just Transitions – a global exploration: Poland

Dr Jack Daly speaks to Dr Lilith Brouwers about their recent report on sex workers’ experiences of management and other third parties. Lilith gives an overview of the legal status of sex work and third parties in England, which third parties exist in sex work, why sex workers choose to work with or without third parties, and what kind of changes sex workers want to improve their relationships with those third parties. 

Visit the project webpage to read the report discussed in this episode.  https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/2151/sex-workers-experiences-of-management-and-other-third-parties

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in July 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.    

About the speakers: Dr Lilith Brouwers is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC). Their research focuses on marginalised workers in informal labour, how hyper-precarious workers use labour mobility, and on the intersection of disability and marginalised forms of work.   

Dr Jack Daly is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CERIC. His research focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion in traditionally male-dominated industries, with a specific interest in the role of men as resistance to and facilitators of inclusive working practices.

Sex workers’ experiences of management and other third parties

In this episode of the Business of Policymaking Podcast, Jana Javornik speaks to Janez Potočnik about his experience in the policymaking world across various national, international and supranational levels. They discuss the role of academic research in informing policy agenda and international policy frameworks, and offer insights into how academics can collaborate with policymakers. 

If you wish to get in touch about this episode, please contact Jana Javornik at research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk.  

For more information about Leeds University Business School’s work with policymakers visit the website. 

A transcript of this episode is available: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/317/the-business-of-policymaking-podcast---transcripts

About Janez Potočnik: Dr Janez Potočnik became a Member of the European Commission in 2004, sharing the Enlargement portfolio with Günther Verheugen for half the year. After that, he was responsible for the EC’s Science and Research portfolio until 2010. Between 2010 and 2014 he served a second full mandate as a Member of the European Commission responsible for Environment.  

In 2014, he was appointed Co-Chair of International Resource Panel hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme, Chair of The Forum for the Future of Agriculture, and Chair of the RISE Foundation. He is also a Member of the European Policy Centre's Advisory Council, and a Partner in SYSTEMIQ. Since 2020, he has been a President of the ThinkForest, and a Special Adviser to the Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius. He is also Special Adviser to Hannover Communications. 

He has received honorary degrees from London Imperial College (UK), Ghent University (Belgium), and Aalto University (Finland). 

Janez has received numerous awards for his contributions to sustainable development, including: 

The United Nations’ Champion of the Earth Award (2013) 

The Catalan Association of Research Entities’ ACER Award for the visionary contributions and leadership that made possible the European Research Council (ERC) (2014) 

The European Environmental Bureau’s Twelve Stars for the Environment award for his science-based approach to promoting environmental sustainability (2014) 

World Economic Forum – Forum of Young Global Leaders and Fortune – Circular Economy Leadership Award (2015) 

The Carlowitz Society’s Hans-Carl-Von-Carlowitz Award for courageous, open minded, and international work in promoting the idea of the circular economy in Europe (2015).

In conversation with Janez Potocnik

Jana Javornik speaks to Sarah Jackson, OBE, about Sarah’s experience in the charity sector where she worked with academics and government, campaigning for policy change and encouraging knowledge exchange around working families and flexible working. 

If you wish to get in touch about this episode, please contact Jana Javornik at research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

For more information about Leeds University Business School’s work with policymakers visit the website.  

A transcript of this episode is available: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/317/the-business-of-policymaking-podcast---transcripts

About Sarah Jackson, OBE: 

Sarah is a work-life balance and flexible working expert. Her working life has involved campaigning, research and practical action to make paid work more inclusive of parents and carers. She is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University School of Management, and an adviser, writer, and commentator on flexible and hybrid working. 

As chair of PiPA (Parents and Carers in Performing Arts) she has a particular interest in how the performing arts industry can use flexible working to become more inclusive in its employment of parents and carers onstage, backstage and offstage. 

She is a Senior Associate at Flexibility Works, where she chairs the employers’ hybrid working professional network, and is the research adviser on Flex4Life, the annual survey of workers and employers in Scotland. 

Sarah was, until 2018, the CEO of Working Families, where she commissioned the UK’s first research on the relationships between flexible working and performance. She chaired and judged the Working Families annual employer best practice awards. She also chaired the DWP’s Private Sector Employers Working Group on Flexible Working, which made early calls for jobs to be advertised flexibly, and which advised extensively on the ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration Service) guidance to support the Right to Request Flexible Working. 

Further reading:  

Flexible Working and Performance https://workingfamilies.org.uk/publications/flexible-working-and-performance/  Cranfield School of Business and Working Families, 2008 
Working and fathers: Combining family life and work https://workingfamilies.org.uk/publications/working-and-fathers-combining-family-life-and-work/ Lancaster University School of Management and Working Families, 2011  
The future of part-time working: the impact of flexible furlough? https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/expertise/changing-world-of-work/the-future-of-part-time-working Cranfield School of Management 
Best Practice Research Project https://pipacampaign.org/research/best-practice-research-project?referrer=/research  Parents and carers in performing arts

In conversation with Sarah Jackson, OBE

In this episode of the “Just Transitions - a Global Exploration” series, Professor Vera Trappmann speaks to Dr Ursula Balderson about the Foundation Industries: how they can transition to Net Zero, how the energy crisis has affected the industry, and what the government is (or isn’t) doing to support the transition.

This project is funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation – Just Transition: Aktivitäten im internationalen Vergleich 2021-582-2. 

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/1990/just-transition-action-concepts-debates-and-strategies-an-international-comparison-across-11-countries

The research on the foundation industry is also available as a report with the European Trade Union Institute, funded by the European Climate Foundation. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in July and October 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/294/podcast-just-transitions---a-global-exploration 

About the speakers:

Vera Trappmann is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School. Her research engages with the comparison of labour relations across Europe, focusing on the dynamics of economic and organisational restructuring and its impact on working biographies, and organized labour.  Currently, climate crisis and just transition are her main focus.  

Dr Ursula Balderson is a postdoctoral research associate on a project on Work, Labour and Climate Change. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist interested in how the transition to a greener economy can improve worker well-being and quality of life.

How can the Foundation Industries reach Net Zero?

In this episode, Jana Javornik speaks to Paul Hayes, Senior Policy Fellow at Leeds University Business School, about his experience as a policy manager at a local council and what it is like working in local government. They also discuss how local government engages with academics and how academics can get on policymakers’ radars and build networks with those working in local councils. 

If you would like to get in touch about this episode, please contact Jana Javornik at research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/317/the-business-of-policymaking-podcast---transcripts

For more information about Leeds University Business School’s work with policymakers visit the website. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-innovation

About the speaker: Paul Hayes is a Senior Policy Fellow at Leeds University Business School. He was formerly corporate policy manager at Wakefield Council and policy lead for the Key Cities Group, an association of 27 mid-size UK cities. This role encompassed policy advisory work to local, regional and national politicians; development and authorship of local and regional strategies and plans; engagement with and representation on working groups of UK government and national bodies; and responses to consultations. The role also included scoping, commissioning and joint development of academic and think tank research and engagement with business and voluntary and community sectors.

In conversation with Paul Hayes

Jana Javornik speaks to Willem Adema, senior economist in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Social Policy Division, about his experience of working at the OECD and how the OECD uses research to develop policy. They discuss the role of in-house versus academic research in policy process, and the differences between the national and global policy landscape. 

If you would like to get in touch about this episode, please contact Jana Javornik at research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/317/the-business-of-policymaking-podcast---transcripts

About Willem Adema:  

Willem Adema is a Senior Economist in the OECD Social Policy Division. Willem leads a team of analysts of Family, Children, Gender and Housing Policies and his team maintains the OECD Family database; the OECD Gender Data Portal; the OECD Social Expenditure database and the Affordable Housing Database.   

In recent years, OECD reports that were produced by Willem and his team include: Joining Forces for Gender Equality: What is Holding us Back?, A Family Policy Review of Norway (2023, forthcoming), Policy Actions for Affordable Housing in Lithuania (2023, forthcoming), The Economic Case for More Gender Equality in Estonia, Reducing the Gender Employment Gap in Hungary, The Role of Firms in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany, Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022, Pay Transparency Tools to Close the Gender Wage Gap,  Bringing Household Services out of the Shadows, Policy Actions for Affordable Housing in Latvia, Rejuvenating Korea - Policies for a Changing Society, Is the Last Mile the Longest?  Economic Gains from Gender Equality in Nordic Countries, Dare to Share: Germany's Experience Promoting Equal Partnership in Families and, The Pursuit of Gender Equality: An Uphill Battle.   

Willem graduated from the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam and holds a doctorate from St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

In conversation with Willem Adema

In this latest episode of the “Just Transitions - a Global Exploration” series, Professor Vera Trappmann and Dr Felix Schulz discuss German workers’ perception of the climate crisis, and the role of policy in transitioning to a greener economy. 

This project is funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation – Just Transition: Aktivitäten im internationalen Vergleich 2021-582-2. The Competence Centre mentioned in this episode is also funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation. 

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/1990/just-transition-action-concepts-debates-and-strategies-an-international-comparison-across-11-countries

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in November 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/294/podcast-just-transitions---a-global-exploration

About the speakers:  

Vera Trappmann is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School. Her research engages with the comparison of labour relations across Europe, focussing on the dynamics of economic and organisational restructuring and its impact on working biographies, and organized labour. Currently, climate crisis and just transition are her main focus.  

https://business.leeds.ac.uk/divisions-work-employment-relations/staff/544/dr-vera-trappmann%22%3EProfessor%20Vera%20Trappmann 

Felix Schulz is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work (digit) Research centre and on an international Hans-Böckler-Stiftung funded project on the role of labour in the “Just Transition”. His research is interdisciplinary, drawing on labour economics, industrial relations, environmental labour studies and social psychology, with justice and inequality as the overarching focus. 

https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/staff/594/dr-felix-schulz

Just Transitions - a Global Exploration: Germany

Dr Peter Gittins and Dr Deema Refai discuss their research on constrained rural entrepreneurship. They talk about the constraints and opportunities farmers are facing post-Brexit, and also discuss how other entrepreneurs work within constraints to achieve positive changes. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in November 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.    

Visit the project webpage for further information. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/2187/constrained-rural-entrepreneurship The project is funded by Leeds University Business School’s Impact and Engagement Support Fund and International Research Collaborations Fund. 

About the speakers:  

Peter Gittins is a Lecturer in the Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies (CEES) at Leeds University Business School. He has a practical working background in farm management, helping to run his family-owned livestock farm in West Yorkshire. His research interests are centred around agricultural business management, specifically rural entrepreneurship and approaches to strategic management in farming businesses.   

Deema Refai is an Associate Professor in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in CEES and is currently Joint Editor in Chief of The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Deema’s research focus is developed around constrained entrepreneurship, with a particular interest in the refugee and rural contexts.

Examining constrained rural entrepreneurship – how farmers are adapting post-Brexit

Dr Jana Javornik speaks to Louise Scott about what it means to be a Deputy Chief Social Researcher at the Scottish Government, and how academics can engage with government. 

If you would like to get in touch about this episode, please contact Jana Javornik at research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/317/the-business-of-policymaking-podcast---transcripts

For more information about Leeds University Business School’s work with policymakers visit the website.  https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-innovation

About the speaker: 

Louise Scott is the Deputy Chief Researcher at the Scottish Government where she is responsible for developing and implementing the strategic priorities of the government social research profession in Scotland. She has worked in the Scottish Government for twenty years, holding research posts in Education, Local Governance, Public Service Reform, Children and Families and the Office of Chief Researcher, and also held a policy role working on Covid. Prior to working in government she was an academic at Loughborough University where she worked on European social policy.

In conversation with Louise Scott

Mattia Dessì speaks to Dr Alexander Beresford about their South African research as part of the project looking at just transitions across the globe. They discuss factors affecting just transition in South Africa, including how international partners fit into the domestic debates, the political sphere, and the role of the ruling elite. 

This project is funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation – Just Transition: Aktivitäten im internationalen Vergleich 2021-582-2. 

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/1990/just-transition-action-concepts-debates-and-strategies-an-international-comparison-across-11-countries

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in October 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/294/podcast-just-transitions---a-global-exploration

About the speakers: Mattia Dessì is a Postgraduate Researcher at Leeds University Business School. His PhD research focuses on new technologies and the future of work in the South African mining industry. 

Dr Alexander Beresford is an Associate Professor in African Politics, and Director of Research and Innovation for the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. His research provides a multi-layered insight into how global normative order is mediated and contested within and between two interwoven spaces - political struggles over inequality, power and corruption from everyday sites of politics through to the highest tables of power in South Africa; and the global diplomatic contestation of vaccine access, conflict resolution and climate change led by South Africa as an emerging power.

Just Transitions – a global exploration: South Africa

Jana Javornik speaks to Petra Petan, a policy assistant in the cabinet of Paolo Gentiloni, the European Commissioner for the Economy. Petra gives some useful insight into the daily work of the European Commission, as well as providing some advice on how academics can work with members of the Commission. 

If you would like to get in touch about this episode, please contact Jana Javornik at research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/317/the-business-of-policymaking-podcast---transcripts

For more information about Leeds University Business School’s work with policymakers visit the website. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-innovation

About the speaker:  

Petra Petan is a political economist with a Masters from the London School of Economics and a degree in English language and literature from the University of Ljubljana. 

After her first job in finance, she realised that policy and EU affairs are where her heart lies and got her first taste for both during a give-month Blue Book traineeship at the Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission in 2017. She later moved to a different part of the European Commission, getting acquainted with the European Semester. 

Petra later returned to her hometown of Ljubljana to join the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development as a Senior Advisor on social and employment topics. 

At the end of 2019, she joined the newly formed Commission of President von der Leyen, as Policy Assistant in the Cabinet of Paolo Gentiloni, Commissioner for Economy. Ever since, she’s worked in the cabinet on a vast array of topics, from the European Semester to the Customs Union, with ECOFIN and Eurogroup coordination and Sustainable Development Goals in between. Drawing on her previous experience in employment and social issues, she’s been responsible for the coordination these topics with the cabinet of EU Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights. She’s also been covering financial affairs, international partnerships, and foresight.

In conversation with Petra Petan

Lena Jaspersen and Tony Morgan talk about their pedagogical research on the development of employability skills in students engaged in challenge-based learning in diverse teams. Drawing on assignments produced for their own module “Innovation, Thinking and Practice”, Tony and Lena analysed reflective diaries that the students wrote throughout the module. Findings provided useful insights into how team-based learning can be designed to improve inclusivity and enhance learning outcomes, including employability skills. Lena and Tony discuss how pedagogical research can connect research and teaching activities in mutually beneficial ways.    

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in December 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/325/transcript---designing-management-and-innovation-courses-for-team-based-learning   

Useful resources: 

LITE Research Project: https://teachingexcellence.leeds.ac.uk/research/fellowships/i-de-es-project/ 

Diverging and Converging for Team-Based Learning: https://teachingexcellence.leeds.ac.uk/diverging-and-converging-for-team-based-learning/ 

Design Thinking for Student Projects book: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/design-thinking-for-student-projects/book276875 

About the speakers:  
Lena Jaspersen is an early-career researcher with a multidisciplinary background in international sociology and organisation studies. Lena’s overarching research interests are in collaborative innovation processes, in particular in the context of global development, and qualitative research methods.  

Tony Morgan (FHEA) is an Associate Professor in Innovation Management Practice at the University of Leeds in the UK, where he teaches interdisciplinary and team-based innovation modules. He previously held senior innovation and technology roles at IBM. Tony's primary interests include design thinking, innovation and innovation management, emerging technology, pedagogy and student skills development. Research areas include how students learn when working in diverse and interdiscplinary teams. Tony is the author of multiple books, and co-author with Lena of Design Thinking for Student Projects.

Designing management and innovation courses for team-based learning

Dr Jo Cutter is joined by Sam Perry, Green Bargaining Officer for Yorkshire and the Humber Trades Union Congress (TUC), to discuss the work the TUC is doing in the region to support a Just Transition for workers. 

This project is funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation – Just Transition: Aktivitäten im internationalen Vergleich 2021-582-2.  

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/1990/just-transition-action-concepts-debates-and-strategies-an-international-comparison-across-11-countries

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in November 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. To find out more about the TUC’s Just Transition work, or to join the Yorkshire and Humber Just Transition Network, email Sam Perry sperry@tuc.org.uk.  

A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/294/podcast-just-transitions---a-global-exploration

About the speakers: 

Dr Jo Cutter is a lecturer in Work and Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School. Her research focuses on employment relations, social dialogue and the regulation of work with a core focus on skills, education and training. She is currently researching these themes concerning two contexts: workers and the just transition and labour mobility. 

Sam Perry is the Green Bargaining Officer for Yorkshire and the Humber TUC. He is focused on raising the profile of environmental action within the labour movement and building capacity in trade unions to bargain for justice as organisations adapt to the need to decarbonise. His special interest is in making the case for a massive growth of energy efficiency retrofits to homes across Yorkshire and the Humber, where he brings together a background in social housing and political and union activism.

The Trades Union Congress on climate change and workers’ voices

Dr Olga Ustyuzhantseva speaks to Mattia Dessì about Russia’s energy situation and the state's views on it; the ecological impact of coal in Russia; and the role of the labour movement in Russia's coal industry. 

This project is funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation – Just Transition: Aktivitäten im internationalen Vergleich 2021-582-2. 

Visit the project webpage. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/dir-record/research-projects/1990/just-transition-action-concepts-debates-and-strategies-an-international-comparison-across-11-countries

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in May 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/294/podcast-just-transitions---a-global-exploration
 
About the speakers: Mattia Dessì is a Postgraduate Researcher at Leeds University Business School. His PhD research focuses on new technologies and the future of work in the South African mining industry. 

Dr Olga Ustyuzhantseva is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Her recent research focus is on the sociotechnical transition to the sustainable development of coal-mining countries (South Africa and Russia), particularly climate, energy, and just transition policies and their impact on the coal phase-out trajectory.

Just Transitions – a global exploration: Russia

In this episode, Krsto Pandza and Tony Morgan discuss the strategic challenges of balancing innovation in core business whilst also developing new opportunities for the future. 

Professor Krsto Pandza’s research partnership with Ericsson was supported by the project COINS (Complex Open Innovation for Network Society). COINS received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675866. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in July 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available at:  https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/194/podcast_episode_11_-_transcript

About the speakers: Krsto Pandza is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Leeds University Business School and Director of the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Engagement. His research interests lie at the intersection of strategy, technology innovation and organizational theory. 
Tony Morgan is Associate Professor in Innovation Management Practice. He previously worked at IBM for 20 years, where his roles included Global Technology Services Chief Innovation Officer for the UK & Ireland, Value Creation Centre Innovation Leader and Client Chief Architect.

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