Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre @mmudecentwork

Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre

@mmudecentwork.bsky.social

A Manchester Met Research Centre: Our mission is to understand what drives decent and productive work - and who has access to it - while shaping a fairer future of work for all https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/groups/decent-work-productivity

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Frontiers | Reproductive capital: theoretical foundations and empirical evidence from the workplace IntroductionThe workplace encompasses structural and personal tensions related to both reproduction and non-reproduction, as well as ambiguity and ambivalenc...

#Free #OpenAccess #Article exploring the socioeconomic & structural factors shaping people's reproductive choices & outcomes #Fertility #Eugenics #Bourdieu @drkryswilkinson.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social
@frontiersmedia.bsky.social @mmudecentwork.bsky.social
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05.08.2025 11:48 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Nice to see my blog for Wonkhe published, sharing key insights from my research which offers a broader view of what ‘graduate success’ in the labour market really looks like. @mmudecentwork.bsky.social

06.06.2025 05:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This week our Centre welcomed career studies scholars from across Europe for the COCAG COST action launch event www.cost.eu/actions/CA23...

23.05.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Why a ‘rip-off’ degree might be worth the money after all – research study Higher education is about more than just income.

Why a ‘rip-off’ degree might be worth the money after all

New @uk.theconversation.com article from our @seanbrofee.bsky.social 👇

theconversation.com/why-a-rip-of...

23.05.2025 07:43 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’ Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement

Upcoming seminar: Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement
Speaker: Dr Reece Garcia
Hybrid, June 10th, 1pm
More details here > www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/worker-coo...

21.05.2025 15:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Key areas include:
- The role of employment charters in creating better work
- Supporting women's health across working lives
- Improving working conditions in adult social care
- Self-employment and employment policy
- Improving industrial relations/promoting employment rights

19.05.2025 15:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Picture of policy briefings

Picture of Manchester Met academics visiting UK Parliament

Last week our Centre Head @katyjones.bsky.social was in UK Parliament showcasing some of our key projects. Our research speaks to key national priorities, including govt's Make Work Pay and Get Britain Working agendas

19.05.2025 15:58 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

We are a multi-disciplinary group of researchers with backgrounds in work psychology, industrial relations,
human resource management, leadership, social policy,
work and equalities

19.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Decent Work and Productivity Engaging with organisations and policymakers to shape the nature of decent work and productivity.

Hello Blue Sky! Give us a follow to stay up to date with the goings on of our research centre. More info here: www.mmu.ac.uk/research/gro...

19.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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Creativity, Innovation, Culture & High Performance | Director of the Master of Sport Directorship (MSD) | Associate Prof at Man Met Uni

SPA Employment policy group
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The Cooperative Economy
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Glaswegian based in Newcastle/Sheffield, UK. University researcher of paid care work at @centreforcare.bsky.social Other interests include all things books, music and gigs, art, football, walking

@jaywiggan

Senior Lecturer in social policy. All things employment and social security policy. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-of-unemployment-policy-in-britain

Harry QP
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Ashwin Kumar
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Director of Research & Policy @IPPR.bsky.social and Professor of Social Policy, Policy Evaluation Research Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University. Economist: incomes, poverty, the labour market & microsimulation modelling

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We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish. https://www.jrf.org.uk/

Mike Brewer
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Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). He/him

Molly Broome
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Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation

Alex Clegg
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Economist at the Resolution Foundation, focusing on social security, poverty and living standards

Nye Cominetti
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At Resolution Foundation covering labour market, low pay, living wage.

Adam Corlett
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Principal Economist at the Resolution Foundation 🇬🇧 Views my own. For prosperity; against poverty, pollution and animal suffering

Emily Fry
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Senior Economist at Resolution Foundation, researching trade, growth and living standards.

Sophie Hale
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Currently on maternity leave but usually Principal Economist leading on trade and intergenerational fairness at the Resolution Foundation.