Research and Innovation

In this episode, Professor Hinrich Voss (Leeds University Business School) and Dr Dave Webb (University of Western Australia) discuss modern slavery and how it affects SMEs, including both Australian and UK legislation. This podcast episode was recorded in February 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact [email protected].   About the speakers: Hinrich Voss is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School and member of the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL). He is interested in the relationship and interaction between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and institutions. This interest is manifested in a research strand on Chinese and emerging market MNEs (EMNEs), and one on the interplay between international business, sustainability and ethics. David Webb is Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow here at Leeds University Business School. He has held numerous international academic and industry positions in Germany, the Far East, the United States and the United Kingdom together with an executive position at a customer satisfaction management consultancy firm in South Africa. David’s primary interests are in the domain of macro-marketing focusing in particular on the interface between marketing and quality of life (QOL), self-determination theory and the psychology of consumption. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/178/podcast_episode_6_-_transcript

What food choices should we be making to try and reduce our carbon footprint? In this episode, Dr Astrid Kause and Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin discuss their recent study which found that even consumers who are engaged with environmental issues are often ill-informed and don’t make the most effective choices when it comes to reducing the climate impact of our food. This podcast episode was recorded in January 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact [email protected]. About the speakers: Dr Astrid Kause is a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Centre for Decision Research at Leeds University Business School. Her current focus is on human judgements and decisions in the environmental and climate domain. Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin is Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science at the University of Southern California and also a Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School. Her research aims to understand and inform how, across the life span, people make decisions about their health, their well-being, and their environmental impacts. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/177/podcast_episode_5_-_transcript You can read the journal article this episode is based on here: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/151209/8/VOR%20Kause_2019_Environ._Res._Lett._14_114005.pdf

From laughter, to emergency evacuations. In this episode, Hannah Preston speaks to Dr Natalie van der Wal to discuss Natalie’s two different areas of current research: laughter-induced therapy, and testing communication strategies to save lives in emergency evacuations. This podcast episode was recorded in July 2019. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact [email protected].   A transcript of this episode is available at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/168/podcast_transcript_-_episode_4 About the presenters: Natalie van der Wal is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Decision Research, Leeds University Business School. Her mission is to improve safety by preventing risky crowd behaviours during emergency situations. Dr van der Wal is specialised in the computational modelling of cognitive and affective processes in groups as well as evidence-based emergency communication research. Her current project - EVACUATION - is funded by the European Commission, through a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Fellowship. https://cdr.leeds.ac.uk/project-evacuation/ Hannah Preston is a Research Support Officer at Leeds University Business School. She is editor of the School’s Research and Innovation Blog, and producer of the Research and Innovation Podcast.

Often modern slavery is thought of as an issue that happens overseas, yet it occurs in a number of sectors within the UK too. In this episode, Dr Matthew Davis and Professor Hinrich Voss discuss what businesses need to know about modern slavery. This podcast episode was recorded in February 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact [email protected]. About the presenters: Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research centres on how people interact with their environments, the impact of different office designs and how businesses engage in CSR, particularly to address sustainability and modern slavery. Hinrich Voss is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School and member of the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL). He is interested in the relationship and interaction between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and institutions. This interest is manifested in a research strand on Chinese and emerging market MNEs (EMNEs), and one on the interplay between international business, sustainability and ethics. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/164/podcast_episode_3_-_transcript

In this episode, Drs Arpita Bhattacharjee and Juliane Scheffel discuss wage inequality, focusing on whether higher levels of education lead to income inequality and looking at skill bias in technological changes. This podcast episode was recorded in June 2019. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact [email protected]. About the presenters: Dr Arpita Bhattacharjee is a Teaching Fellow in Economics. Her current research interests focus on labour economics, development economics and micro-econometric methods. Dr Juliane Scheffel is also a Teaching Fellow in Economics and her current research interests include: labour economics, development economics, health economics, migration, education, and elderly care. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/162/podcast_episode_2_-_transcript

What do we mean by technologies in the workplace? And are they likely to have a positive or negative effect on our lives? In this episode, Professors Chris Forde and Mark Stuart give an overview of the impact of digital technologies and how they might replace jobs, create new types of jobs, and change the nature of the way we work. This podcast episode was recorded in February 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact [email protected]. The work for The European Parliament referred to in this interview is the 2017 study on “The Social Protection of Workers in the Platform Economy”. You can read the report here: www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/614184/IPOL_STU(2017)614184_EN.pdf About the presenters: Chris Forde is Professor of Employment Studies, Co-Director of the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change, and co-ordinator of the Q-Step Programme. His research interests look at the changing nature of work, and the implications of these changes for workers. Professor Mark Stuart is Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation at Leeds University Business School, founder of the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change, and Co-Director of the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre. His current research focuses on the wide-ranging effects of digitalisation on the future of work; restructuring and displacement in the steel sector; and union modernisation, skills and learning. A transcript of this podcast is available at https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/163/podcast_episode_1_transcript

Welcome to Leeds University Business School’s Research and Innovation Podcast. In this introductory episode, Professor Mark Stuart, Pro Dean for Research and Innovation, explains how we’ll be using this podcast to bring you insights from our expert researchers. This podcast episode was recorded in February 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact [email protected]. A transcript of this episode is available at https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/161/podcast_introduction_-_transcript