Oxford Brookes Business School: Research News

13Jul
Euro 2020: could Twitter stop racist abuse before it happens?
As excitement built in England ahead of the Euro 2020 final against Italy, fans took to Twitter to express pride in their diverse and inspiring team. There was also a sense of nervous anticipation at the chance to win a major tournament for the first time in 55 years.
01Jul
Older people in research: Interdisciplinary participatory co-research and the role of digital technologies
Funded by a university Central Research Excellence award this interdisciplinary project, across three universities, brings together researchers from the Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Arts and the Business disciplines to focus on how to best engage older people in creativity through participative research and the role of digital technologies in this.
29Jun
Investing in Women-led Start-ups and Spinouts
A webinar organised by The Centre for Diversity Policy and Practice on 'Investing in Women-Led Start-Ups and Spinouts'
07May
New research aims to reduce gender inequalities caused by COVID-19 policies
Academics at Oxford Brookes University have been awarded a share of €5.2 million to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected equality in 31 European countries.
26Apr
Blog post on European H2020 project CASPER
Read our recent blog on considerations for a Europe-wide gender equality scheme. It is based on interviews with 74 European stakeholders with experience and understanding of equality schemes.
31Mar
Recent Business School PhD Student Successes
Business School Research Degrees Students' achievements.
02Mar
Policy Brief: Supporting Women Entrepreneurship in Conflict Ridden States
More countries are experiencing violent conflict in the last few decades. In conflict-ridden states, women entrepreneurs do increase due to the difficult political and economic conditions whilst experiencing additional challenges to those experienced by women entrepreneurs in non-conflict affected developing economies.
09Feb
Political agency, migrant presence and cultural resources
Professor Peter Lugosi’s research ‘Political agency, migrant presence and cultural resources’ has been founded by The British Academy amongst four new international and interdisciplinary research projects that seek to support collaboration between researchers in the UK and Brazil.
09Feb
Why nursing may be undervalued
Dr Anne Laure Humbert was a guest speaker on BBC Radio 4 discussing the damage caused by the old fashioned-way according to which caring for others is a feminine characteristic.
03Feb
New ‘DIGIT Lab’ launched to help businesses close digital transformation gap
A new research centre involving three academics from Oxford Brookes Business School will help large organisations adapt to the rapid pace of digital transformation in society.

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