Research output per year
Research output per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Organisation, Work and Employment group is the largest group within the Department of Management. Faculty undertake a range of teaching and research in the following broad disciplinary areas: organisation studies; human resource management; employment relations; political economy.
The research interests of the group cut across the following themes:
- Contemporary issues for the future of work, including flexible working, the gig economy, decent work/quality of work and pay
- Economic Policy – macro and micro, including employment regulation, comparative political economy, industrial strategy, regional policy and labour markets
- Employment relations – work and the workplace, employee voice and trade unionism
- Entrepreneurship and small business
- Equality, diversity, inclusion and workplace well-being
- Human resource management
- Knowledge, skills and human capital
- Organisational learning
- Trust and social capital – across global value chains and production networks, between organisations and their stakeholders, within and between organisations
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 1 No Poverty -
SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions -
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Profiles
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Neve Abgeller
- Management - Associate Professor
- Organisation, Work and Employment Group
Person: Academic
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Victus Benuyenah
- Management - Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management
- Dubai Campus Research
- Organisation, Work and Employment Group
Person: Academic
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Holly Birkett
- Management - Professor of Organisation Studies
- Social Sciences - Deputy Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer
- Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC)
- Organisation, Work and Employment Group
Person: Academic
Research output
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Academic entrepreneurship: uncovering the role of formal and informal logics in the academic entrepreneurial space
Giunti, G. & Duberley, J., 18 Aug 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Technology Transfer. 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Attributional sense‐making of distrust in professional service firms: Working in a coopetitive paradox
Abgeller, N., Saunders, M. N. K., Donnelly, R. & Dobbins, T., Mar 2026, In: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 99, 1, 20 p., e70086.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Book Briefing Note: Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work? Specialist Trade Union Representation in the United Kingdom
Hodder, A. & Martínez Lucio, M., 31 Jan 2026, 5 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Open AccessFile
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership between University of Birmingham and Blanc Aero Industries UK Limited
Nyfoudi, M. (Principal Investigator) & Green, W. (Co-Investigator)
BLANC AERO INDUSTRIES UK LIMITED known as Lisi Aerospace, Innovate UK
1/06/26 → 31/01/29
Project: Research
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The impact of AI on work opportunities for people living with physical and/or intellectual disabilities in the UK
Hopkins, B. (Co-Investigator), Darko, C. (Co-Investigator), Clarke, H. (Co-Investigator) & Wheatley, D. (Principal Investigator)
The Edward Gostling Foundation
1/05/25 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
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Intersecting Interests? Industrial action in public services 2022-23
Cai, M. (Principal Investigator)
Economic & Social Research Council
13/01/25 → 12/01/27
Project: Research Councils
Activities
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Organising or not? Union engagement with recent Hong Kong immigrants in the UK
Tse, F. Y. (Presenter)
4 Dec 2025 → 5 Dec 2025Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
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World Expo: Osaka Japan invited Speaker
Mustafa, M. (Invited speaker)
16 Jul 2025Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
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Women's Rights
Tse, F. Y. (Speaker)
28 Jun 2025Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Industry event
Press/Media
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Employees on a four-day week use their extra day off for housework, hobbies, ‘me-time’ – and moonlighting, says research
Xu, M., Wheatley, D., Dobbins, T. & Birkett, H.
10/09/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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