The workplace
Our research on the workplace navigates the future of work in an ever-changing landscape, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of hybrid and remote working, effective leadership and management, and how to foster positive and productive work environments.
Delve into our resources for expert insights on adapting to new work models and creating flexible workplace policies.
Spotlight blog posts
View all workplace blog posts here.
Podcast episodes
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Reports and policy briefs
- Sex workers’ experiences of third parties, Dr Lilith Brouwers, September 2023
- Restructuring of UK aerospace, Professor Jonathan Winterton, Professor Chris Forde, Dr Ian Greenwood, Nafisat Olabisi, Dr Andrew Shires, April 2023
- Where is your office today: part 1 (May 2022) and Where is your office today: part 2 (October 2022) Dr Matthew Davis, Dr Hannah Collis, Dr Helen Hughes, Professor Chiahuei Wu, Dr Emma Gritt, Dr Linhao Fang, Afshan Iqbal, and Professor Simon Rees.
- The impact of remote and hybrid working on workers and organisations, UK Parliament POST briefing; Dr Matthew Davis, Dr Hannah Collis, Dr Helen Hughes, Professor Chiahuei Wu, Dr Emma Gritt, Dr Linhao Fang, Afshan Iqbal, and Professor Simon Rees; October 2022
- Effective hybrid working for employers and employees (policy brief), Dr Matthew Davis, Dr Hannah Collis, Dr Helen Hughes, Professor Chiahuei Wu, Dr Emma Gritt, Dr Linhao Fang, Afshan Iqbal, and Professor Simon Rees, June 2022
- Starting your career during a pandemic; the experience of remote and hybrid working, Dr Helen Hughes, October 2021
- Understanding the value of internships, Dr Helen Hughes, July 2020
- Enabling corporate innovation (policy note), Professor Krsto Pandza, 2020
Research projects
Management and HR practices
- Understanding the value of internships
- Devolving to the line – How do people managers really enact HR?
- Sex workers’ experiences of management and other third parties
- Developing corporate innovation capabilities
- Designing human resource management practices to improve the wellbeing of healthcare workers from BAME backgrounds in the context of COVID-19
In the workplace
- Working in warehouses
- Collaborative action on the future of migrant working conditions in Yorkshire warehousing
- Adapting offices for the future of work
- UK aerospace restructuring: jobs, skills and high-performance work
- Democratic deconsolidation at work? Understanding the relationship between voice in the workplace and political engagement across the UK’s social divides
- Transformational effects of COVID-19 on inequalities at work: An international analysis of job polarisation, occupational segregation and emerging policy responses
- Digital Futures At Work Research Centre
Contact us
To find out more about any of the above research, or how you can work with us in these areas, contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk.