A new book, Gender and the Creative Labour Market, explores in depth the gender inequalities within creative fields. The book is a cumulation of a project funded by the Australian…Read More >
Prosperity & Resilience
On the Disability History Month theme of health and wellbeing
There are over 1 billion disabled people in the world (WHO, 2011), making up around 15% of the global population, a community that has grown as a consequence of the…Read More >
Maternal wellbeing, infant feeding and returning to work: launch of UK-wide survey
Returning to paid work is a potential barrier for mothers wishing to continue to breastfeed, with many not realising it is an option to carry on. The benefits of breastfeeding…Read More >
Tackling health inequalities in Reading: Community Participatory Action Research 2021–2022
A new report offers a series of recommendations for tackling health inequalities in Reading, including improving translation and interpretation services and engaging local community groups as partners in culturally-sensitive service…Read More >
Cryptocurrencies: why Binance’s failed FTX rescue deal could mean ‘crypto winter’ is coming
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license and was first published before FTX filed for bankruptcy. Life in the cryptocurrency industry is rarely quiet for…Read More >
Iran: hijab protests reflect society-wide anger at regime which trashes rule of law and human rights
The death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police in September for not wearing the hijab properly was a fracturing point, prompting Iranian women to come on to the…Read More >
Transforming classroom language teaching through multimedia
In the UK, the numbers of 16-year-olds studying a modern foreign language (French, German and Spanish) are low, as is foreign language proficiency when compared with the rest of Europe….Read More >
Corporate rescue: what happens when companies fail?
In this blog, Bolanle Adebola explains how her research seeks to create a justice-based framework through which to evaluate and recommend improvements to the structure of global corporate rescue systems…Read More >
Accommodating diversity in the workplace – first workshop on 8 December 2022
Supporting diversity in the workplace not only improves the working lives of employees and reduces workplace inequality, but also benefits organisations. A diverse workforce, who are well supported in the…Read More >
This World Menopause Day remember to share a positive menopause story
A year ago, I wrote a blog about how businesses can support menopausal employees at work. In that blog, I discussed the importance of the topic of menopause in the…Read More >
