Oxford Brookes Business School: Research News

• • 04Jan
    

    Sustainability implications of the spatial shift in global capitalism

    Oxford Brookes Business School organised a public lecture on 5th December by Pritam Singh who has been recently awarded the distinguished Professor Emeritus status by the University.

  • 20Dec
    

    Workshop on migration and hospitality

    At a time when headlines report, critique and stir anti-immigration attitudes and politics, (in)hospitality towards migrants, asylum seekers and refugees is becoming highly problematic. Insufficient consideration is given to the experience and agency of migrants themselves in the societies, the communities, and the workplaces through which they transit, in which they live, settle, and work.

  • 10Dec
    

    New study on gender and pay aims to support sustainability in the nursing profession

    What is the state of working conditions and pay in the nursing profession, and what role does gender play? These are questions raised by important new research conducted in collaboration with professional body and nursing union the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

  • 03Dec
    

    Identifying pathways for refugee integration and employment in the UK and Brazil

    For migrants and refugees, contact with state, charitable and commercial organisations when settling into ‘host’ societies and entering the labour market significantly shapes their experiences. Since 2016, Dr Peter Lugosi from the Oxford School of Hospitality Management, Dr Clara Della Croce and Dr Sonia Morano-Foadi from the School of Law have been researching how refugees transition into employment. This work has now been extended through a British Academy Newton funded project involving Dr Thiago Allis from the University of Sáo Paulo, Brazil.

  • 30Nov
    

    6th Annual Postgraduate Oxford Brookes and CIPD HR Research Conference

    The Business School was delighted to host the 6th Annual Postgraduate Oxford Brookes and CIPD HR Research Conference in November 2018. This event celebrated not only the quality of our graduating students' research but also the ongoing close collaboration between the Business School and the Oxford CIPD Branch.

  • 30Nov
    

    Academic networks in conversation with business and human rights stakeholders at the United Nations

    In previous years, a number of academic, research and teaching networks in universities and business schools have emerged in the business and human rights (BHR) arena, becoming both creations and co-creators of the BHR field. How do research and teaching in these networks help advance BHR thinking and practice? Which audiences and stakeholders do they reach or should they aim to reach? How do they contribute to identifying and building on what works in BHR?

  • 29Nov
    

    Understanding the taboos of eating insects as creepy crawly snacks hit supermarket shelves

    How do you convince someone to put a cricket in their mouth? It sounds like a strange research topic, but it’s a question that two Oxford Brookes University academics have been researching for over a year and is increasingly relevant as we browse the supermarket aisles.

  • 23Nov
    

    Modern Slavery - Collaboratively addressing current challenges in the public, private and third sectors

    What are the current challenges confronting these different actors in the UK to combat modern slavery? How can they organise to address these and future challenges? And, how can we as individuals - students, employees, managers, neighbours - also play a role in their prevention?

  • 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.

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