Running order for the seminar

1.  Welcome 

 

2. 'Faculty Focus' - Prof. Colin Tyler, Associate Dean for Research, FBLP

Professor Tyler will give an update on the what’s happening with research activity in the faculty. If there is anything specific you would like to hear about please click this link to email us in advance. (5-10 mins).

 

3.    Research Perspectives on : 'Mindful Leadership in the context of large scale change'

by Professor Malcolm Higgs, Organisational Behaviour and HRM. Hull University Business School. 

The research built from the emerging interest in mindful leadership (largely sparked by a rash of practitioner books and publications). The established academic work on mindfulness tends to be dominantly experimental with little done on its application to leaders. This project explored the evidence of leaders' mindfulness in the context of large scale change and demonstrated that mindful practices were related to both leadership behaviours and change implementation success. The project is based on qualitative data from 80 leaders drawn from 60 organizations.

(15 mins plus 5-15 mins for open discussion/questions).

 

4.    Research Perspectives on: 'The MoVE (Mobilising Volunteers Effectively) Project 

with Dr Jenny McNeill and Dr Harriet Thierry, Research Associates in the Management School at the University of Sheffield.  

The MoVE (Mobilising Volunteers Effectively) project is a collaboration between the universities of Sheffield, Hull and Leeds. Over the course of 18 months, the research is focussed on how volunteers have been mobilised in response to the coronavirus and what the pandemic can teach us about enabling social action, during the crisis and beyond. The research is funded by the ESRC as part of the UK Research and Innovation's rapid response to Covid-19.

(15 mins plus 5-15 mins for open discussion/questions).

 

5.    ‘PGRs talk to us' – (10 mins)

PGRs can raise group/individual issues, discussions around health and wellbeing and any other issues and future seminar topics.  Email us in advance if you like!

 

Target audience

This seminar is likely to be of interest to PGRs from across the University.

 

General questions

If you have any general questions about the seminar programme please contact Jackie McAndrew at the Doctoral College in the first instance on jackie.mcandrew@hull.ac.uk

To view the full PGR Research Culture and Community Programme click here for more details

 

 

 

 

Dr Jenny McNeill is a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and is currently working in the Management School on the Mobilising Volunteers Effectively (MoVE) research project funded by ESRC. Prior to this she worked on the Enabling Social Action Programme with DCMS partners. She also previously worked in the Urban Studies and Planning dept at the University of Sheffield on the Welfare Conditionality project, funded by ESRC. She studied at Nottingham Trent University and completed her PhD exploring the role of employability in homeless people's resettlement.

 

Dr Harriet Thierry is a Research Associate at the Sheffield University Management School, currently investigating community responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Her research interests include the international political economy of aid and development, social policy and civil society. She is particularly interested in the interactive relationship between policy, power and discourse. Her PhD was awarded by the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield in May 2020.