We are delighted to announce four new research themes which highlight the strengths of our world-leading academics and will shape the development of future research and impact activity.
Our research themes are:
- Work Futures
- Pathways to Sustainable Consumption, Production and Finance
- Technology, Innovation and Place
- Enhancing Health and Wellbeing
The Work Futures theme reflects our research and impact excellence in areas such as the organisation of work, job quality, people management practices, power within organisations, the regulation of work and employment, informal employment and policies and practices to increase the extent to which working people can experience decent and sustainable work.
Our Pathways to Sustainable Consumption, Production and Finance theme highlights the School’s innovative research on topics such as the circular economy and the ways in which employers, local and national government and financial institutions and other actors can contribute to creating a sustainable economy.
The Technology, Innovation and Place theme draws attention to our cutting-edge research on the diffusion of new technologies, innovations relating to products, processes and methods of decision making and problem solving, domestic and cross-border supply chains and the ways in which entrepreneurial behaviours, innovation capacities and productivity are influenced by economic, social and policy contexts at local, regional and national scales.
The School’s Enhancing Health and Wellbeing theme reflects our substantial research strengths in areas such as the organisation and management of health and social care, the care provided by unpaid carers, the factors that influence the health and wellbeing of workers and how changes in health and care arrangements and people management practices might lead to better health and wellbeing outcomes for employees and the wider population.
The themes also demonstrate the ways in which our research and impact activities support the Management School's mission to have a ‘positive impact on working lives, organisations and societies worldwide, fostering socially responsible management practices’ and its vision relating to the promotion of ‘positive societal transformation for a fairer, sustainable future’.
Professor Fraser McLeay, Interim Dean of Sheffield University Management School, stated “The four themes will promote greater interdisciplinarity, inform our internationalisation strategy and the further development of research and impact activity, and ensure alignment with current national and international economic, societal and ecological challenges and related policy imperatives, as encapsulated in, for example, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I would like to thank Professor Jason Heyes, Associate Dean of Impact and Engagement, Professor Kirsty Newsome, Associate Dean of Research, and all others involved.”
Learn more about our new research themes and the work of our academics