Original Thinking Podcast

Hosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development

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In this podcast we will hear from Caroline Roberts-Cherry. Caroline runs Saffron Cherry Productions in Manchester, an independent TV and film company that has just launched a new children’s series The World According to Grandpa on Milkshake!

Filmed in lockdown this live action and animated series stars Don Warrington as Grandpa and Sally Lindsay as the voice of Halifax the rabbit. Caroline first worked with Don when she produced King Lear the film in which he starred which was released in cinemas before being shown on BBC 4 on Christmas Day 2016. Sally fronted the 2018 documentary Emmeline Pankhust;The Making of a Militant for Saffron Cherry. It was first shown on BBC One North West and then BBC Four. A DVD of the show was distributed to all GM Secondary Schools by Mayor Andy Burnham’s office and it has been sold internationally.

Caroline has held senior positions at the BBC and ITV and is an industry diversity champion.

This episode will be hosted by Elinor O'Connor, Professor of Occupational Psychology at Alliance MBS, who discusses how Psychology can help us to understand and manage the impact of a range of work demands on workers’ performance and well-being.

Elinor is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning at AMBS, and is a member of the School's Senior Leadership Team. Her interests in the field of work psychology focus on occupational stress and its management, and her work includes research with the University of Manchester’s School of Pharmacy on occupational stress and error in community pharmacists. More recently, Elinor has been conducting a programme of applied research on work-related stress and well-being in veterinarians, an occupational group that experiences poor psychological health.

The discussion will be facilitated by Alliance MBS' Professor David Holman.

This podcast presents an interdisciplinary discussion of critical issues confronting human labour under COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on work and working lives. This has ignited an important debate on the value of human labour, which has increased awareness of the criticality of a wide range of jobs, many of which have been traditionally undervalued, both politically and socially.

The UK government’s definition of ‘key workers’ amount to 7.1 million adults, many of which are underpaid, working in insecure jobs and operating in public-facing roles. Among key workers, Black, Asian, and working-class groups make up a disproportionately large share, leaving them far more exposed to infection. Additionally, sectors dominated by female workers, such as retail and hospitality, have been hit hard by variations of lockdown, placing them at increased risk of both job loss and furlough. Uncertainty surrounding schooling and childcare provision adds an extra burden.

In the last decade we’ve experienced an influx of FinTech start-ups challenging traditional financial institutions and attempting to disrupt the market through new and innovative product propositions. This 'new' FinTech phenomenon brought about a wave of change in financial services which resulted in altered competitive dynamics and shifting industry architecture.

In this podcast, Markos Zachariadis, Greensill Chair of Financial Technology (FinTech) and Full Professor of Information Systems at Alliance MBS, will explore the role of technology and its impact on the financial services landscape based on a programme of research around FinTech and relevant regulation.

He will discuss how FinTech is changing market dynamics and what the new business models are that new entrants and incumbent firms are exploring following the technological, regulatory, and market transformation of the last few years. He will also point to current and emerging topics around financial technology and research plans going forward to set a FinTech research agenda.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead. 

Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu will explore how, despite traumatic experiences in her childhood during the 1950s, she managed to overcome them and achieve success in her adult life. She will reflect on both positive and negative aspects of living in a Children’s Home until the age of 9, followed by being subject to physical abuse at the hands of her stepfather due to her being mixed-race.

The reason for choosing a career in nursing will be discussed, together with the background to how she became the first UK Sickle Cell Nurse Specialist. Finally, Dame Elizabeth will explain why she became actively involved with the successful campaign for a statue of Mary Seacole, the Jamaican/Scottish Victorian nurse and entrepreneur.   

This annual lecture marks the contribution of Teddy Chester, who was the first professor of social administration at the University of Manchester. From his appointment in the early 1950s, to his retirement in the 1970s he was an influential pioneer in management development, using evidence and research with policy makers, and working with clinical leaders. He was involved in founding and leading the NHS Graduate Training Scheme, and in founding Manchester Business School.

Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu was joined by Ann Mahon, Professor of Health Leadership and Head of the Health Management Group at the University of Manchester.

Juergen Maier, former CEO of Siemens UK, discusses his views on the impact of COVID-19 on UK productivity and talks about how industry now needs to work closer than ever before with policymakers and other stakeholders to create a much more focused industrial strategy and address the UK’s productivity puzzle.

 Juergen was joined by Gurpreet Narwan, economics correspondent at The Times, who facilitated the discussion.

How do we connect with others around us and build strong working relationships? How do we boost morale and motivation or stimulate people to fight for social justice?

Karen’s event was so engaging that we ran out of time during the event for her to answer the many questions posed to her, so she kindly agreed to follow up on these after the event. This allowed her to delve even deeper into the subject in this interview.

In this podcast, Karen Niven, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Alliance MBS, will argue that the key to achieving these goals is shaping other people’s feelings. She will provide an overview of her research programme on this topic of ‘interpersonal emotion regulation’, considering how and why we strategically influence the feelings of those around us and the effects of doing so on people’s working lives.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

How do we connect with others around us and build strong working relationships? How do we boost morale and motivation or stimulate people to fight for social justice?

In this podcast, Karen Niven, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Alliance MBS, will argue that the key to achieving these goals is shaping other people’s feelings. She will provide an overview of her research programme on this topic of ‘interpersonal emotion regulation’, considering how and why we strategically influence the feelings of those around us and the effects of doing so on people’s working lives.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

How would you feel about losing your job to a machine?

How about a tsunami alert system that fails?

Would you react differently to acts of discrimination performed by a machine or a human? 

Honorary Professor at Alliance MBS César A. Hidalgo discusses the findings from his latest book How Humans Judge Machines in a discussion facilitated by Dr Kieron Flanagan, Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Policy at Alliance MBS.

How Humans Judge Machines compares people’s reactions to actions performed by humans and machines. Using data collected in dozens of experiments, Professor Hidalgo reveals the biases that permeate human-machine interactions.

On this joint podcast from MICRA and Alliance Manchester Business School a panel of experts will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on older workers.

Speakers:

Dr Sheena Johnson, Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing.

Sheena will give some brief background to how older workers are potentially disproportionately affected given their increased risk to Covid19, and consider what support employers can put in place to mitigate this. She will then outline what academic research can tell us about this and also outline what research is in progress / being planned.

Dr Emily Andrews, Senior Evidence Manager at Centre for Ageing Better:

Emily will discuss how the emerging picture of the impact of this recession on workers is u-shaped across the life course: the youngest workers being hit hardest, but the oldest (working-age) workers also seeing a substantial hit to their earnings and hours. Emily Andrews from the Centre for Ageing Better will present findings from new research produced in partnership with the Learning and Work Institute – on the impact of this recession on workers in their 50s and 60s, what we can learn from previous responses to unemployment among this age-group, and what needs to be done next to ensure that progress on 50+ employment does not go into reverse.

Dr Mat Ainsworth, Assistant Director – Employment (Policy, Strategy & Delivery) Greater Manchester Combined Authority:

Mat will talk about the work of the GM Ageing Hub on tackling labour market inequalities faced by older people; the risks and potential opportunities presented by Covid-19 and the launch of an innovative local pilot in partnership with Ageing Better and DWP.