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News

Denise Baden spoke at several events on sustainability

• Baden, D. and Hodgson, S. (2025) Promoting sustainable practice by advising clients: a case study. International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility. Alicante, Spain. Sept.
• Baden, D. (2025) ‘Planet placement’. How stories influence consumer behaviour. International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility. Alicante, Spain. Sept.
• Writing for Sustainability event "Planting Words": Sustainability Centre, Droxford, Hants. 22nd July 2025. Green Stories and Pens of the Earth collaborated with the Sustainability Centre to provide a "Local Sustainability Writer" event on 22nd July. I gave a talk and workshop on writing for climate.
• British Academy Summer Showcase. London 20th June 2025. Denise gave a talk on: 'The entertainment and educational value of interactive theatre' about my play, ''.
• Urban Wild Festival, 28th May 2025 11-12.30
  Talk/workshop on 'Stories to Change the World' and launch of new Green Stories competition at The Spark, Solent University, Southampton.
• Denise Baden was speaking at several events at COP28, Dubai
   

Denise Baden  was quoted in a news article in the US – see 
 

Yehuda Baruch along with colleagues in Audencia Business School have received press coverage on their study about chance events affecting managers.

• https://crystoex.cu.ma/life-in-the-age-of-mass-lay-offs/
• https://decorrislist.com/life-in-the-age-of-layoffs/

Events

Members of HRM and OB gathered at a departmental away day on 24th June 2025. Research activities involved a grant funding workshop tailored to the centre/department by Joanna Jackson as well as research and enterprise updates from everyone.

On 25^th June 2025, the centre organised a hybrid PGR research event with Qinyang Xu and Fabien Littel presenting their research.

On 10^th March 2025, PGR student Fabien Littel organised an event “Co-creating visions for a sustainable and inclusive future through dialogic storytelling” which was supported by CRoWO as well as CISIE, with Denise Baden as one of the speakers.
 

HRM and OB Departmental Away Day (19 June 2024):

• Members of HRM and OB gathered at a local hotel to discuss how to further embed excellence into research and teaching.
   

Research Showcase Event (18th December 2023):

• Members (staff and PGRs) participated in a research showcase event.
   

PGR Conference (22 September 2023):

• Hosted by the Department of HRM and OB /Centre for Research on Work and Organisations (CRoWO).
• Expertly chaired by second-year PhD students Vivien Xiao Yu and Fabien Littel.
• Networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration for the academic year ahead.
• Presentations from PGRs:
  • Leonara Amponsah-Asante: Organisational silence
  • Fabien Littel: Moral disengagement and climate change
  • Colin Linton: Contract management
  • Qingyang Xu: The gig economy
• Presentations from staff:
  • David Cross: Handling qualitative data
  • Eason Zhang: Overview of meta-analysis
  • Taposh Roy: Creating teaching opportunities for the PGR community
     

Research Away Day (19th June 2023):

• Held at Wide Lane Sports Ground.
• Great attendance, showcasing a collegial approach to academically productive work.
• Members shared paper/grant ideas and received feedback.
• Discussions on best practices for impactful research.
• Commitment to future participation in similar events.
   

The Centre runs a research seminar series, which invites scholars (external and internal) to present their research. Recently this has included:

• Becoming a university president: An accidental meritocratic career trajectory - Yehuda Baruch
• So, I’m Going to Be a Mother: Exploring Stakeholders' Views on Workplace Pregnancy - Naama Bar-on Shmilovitch
• Disrupting hope labour? A Badiouian enquiry into contingent academic careers during the Covid-19 event - Elina Meliou
• Research Seminar with Professor Lynn McAlpine: How would you rate you career literacy?
• We were all in it together: Managing work from home as dual-earner households with school-age children – Mina Beigi
• Why journal rankings are good, actually – Matthew Sinnicks
• The identity work of freelancers in knowledge economy: focusing on coaches who support C-suites – Yi-Ling Lai
• “Unfollow the Money”: Over-Researching the Poor, Under-Researching the Rich and the Poverty of Plutocracy (Data) – Michael Marinetto (Cardiff Business School)
• Relational boundary management in confined work settings - Gloria Kutscher (University of Southampton Business School) and Derin Kent (Warwick Business School)
• A Study of New Labour Market Entrants’ Job Satisfaction Trajectories During a Series of Consecutive Job Changes – Min Zou
• HRM and Research Performance in the Higher Education Context: Evidence from European Countries – Jolanta Jaskiene
• Unsettling West-centrism in management studies: insights from research on professional organisations – Mehdi Boussebaa