Research News

12Sep
Alleviating Loneliness in the Elderly through Engagement with Hospitality Services
Professor Levent Altinay has had two papers published in the Hospitality Journals about the role of hospitality businesses in addressing social isolation among the elderly in the UK and in Hong Kong.
12Sep
Research Exchange: China and the World
Peking University HSBC Business School hosted the first joint research seminar with academics from Oxford Brookes University on 12th September 2018 at their Oxford Campus.
12Sep
National Flexible Working Day
To mark this event, a conference was held at Unipart in Oxford sponsored by Aylesbury Vale District Council, FlexIT and bChannels and Helen Wright Founder of 9-2-3 Jobs. Over 100 people attended the event and many more joined online for live streaming of the day.
09Aug
Oxford Brookes projects funded to address “pressing equality and diversity issues facing engineering and physical sciences”
Oxford Brookes University is leading a national project to improve equality, diversity and inclusion within engineering and the physical sciences.
26Jul
Professor Altinay visited Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Levent Altinay and Professor Allan Williams (University of Surrey) visited Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
03Jul
Workshop on Secrecy in Organisations
On 2nd and 3rd July Dr Ioanna Iordanou organised and convened a two day interdisciplinary workshop on Secrecy in Organisations.
02Jul
Professor Juliette Koning delivers keynote address on Critical Organisational Ethnography in Amsterdam
A critical-ethnographic perspective is essential to deal with complex societal issues. Anthropologists and Organisational scientists from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam believe that an ethnographic mindset helps to be critical, creative and develop out-of-the box solutions.
25Jun
Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice
Professor Juliette Koning and Dr Michiel Verver, Visiting Academic at Oxford Brookes Business School were invited to give a presentation at Birmingham Business School at the workshop on Precarity, Migration and Enterprise, organised by the Department of Management, the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) and the Entrepreneurship Studies Network which took place on 25 - 26 June 2018.
04Jun
What does it take for businesses to respect human rights?
As human rights have become an increasingly prominent issue to businesses, the need and demand for education on business and human rights (BHR) is growing. On 4th June, Dr Samentha Goethals co-organised the event ‘What does it take for businesses to respect human rights?’ – Taking a critical look at business and human rights education, as part of the Oxford Business & Human Rights Network (OxBHR Network) seminar series.
25May
Professor Tatiana Bachkirova has given a keynote presentation at the 3rd Conference of the European Society for Research in Adult Development
Professor Tatiana Bachkirova has delivered a keynote presentation at the 3rd Conference of the ESRAD (European Society for Research in Adult Development) that took place on the 26-27 May 2018 at the University of Greenwich, London.

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