International Women’s Day 2026: Challenging Gender-Based Violence
By Chathushka Kiriella This event, hosted by UWE Bristol, on 6 March 2026, brought together researchers, practitioners and students to explore ...
Restoring control or reinforcing exclusion? UK immigration policy and international students
By Chathushka Kiriella“Is it still worth staying in the UK?” That’s a question many international students are asking themselves now ...
Job sharing in the South West – meet, learn and connect
By Chathushka Kiriella On 21st January 2026 the Job Share South West (JSSW) inaugural event brought together leaders, managers and ...
Breaking barriers: what HR professionals need to know about disabled students and placements
By Dr Hilary Lowe Placements are a key part of employability in higher education. They give students real world experience ...
Empowering Change Across Borders: The HR, Work and Employment (HRWE) Group’s International Women’s Day Celebrations
By Chathushka Kiriella, Tinkuma Edafioghor, Vanda Papafilippou and Susan Durbin The last couple of weeks have been an incredibly busy ...
Formidable Females in Future Flight: Inspiring women through my podcast series
Jo Moses, Founder of Berello Jo is the founder of Berello, with over 20 years of experience in recruitment and ...
The 100 Black Women Professor Now Programme: the power of community and rediscovering my career path!
Dr Tinkuma Edafioghor is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and a member of HRWE. She holds a PhD ...
Preventing violence against women: The need to engage men in the workplace
Dr Stephen Burrell, 16/08/2024 This article discusses themes of violence and sexual harassment in the work place. In the UK ...
Announcement: New Series in collaboration with BLCC
HRWE are proud to announce that for academic year 2024/2025 we will be collaborating with the Bristol Leadership and Change ...
Exploring Neurodiversity in Engineering: A Video Series by Vanda Papafilippou and Lucy Downes
Vanda Papafilippou and Lucy Downes, have recently published a series of videos exploring their findings around their research on neurodiversity ...
Invisible Work on Maternity Leave: How the Covid Pandemic intensified and exposed the unpaid work of Mothers
Dr Jenna Pandeli, Dr Chloe Tarrabain and Dr Mahwish Khan In this blog, we draw upon our own research that ...
Handbook Launch: Gender and Employment in the Public Sector
Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg have co-edited a new International Handbook on Gender and Employment in the Public Sector, ...
Studying at Soft Play: Giving Student Parents in HE a Voice
Stress in students is well-documented in the literature as having negative effects on cognitive, emotional and physical health. We’re all ...
Exploring the experience of neurodivergent engineers in the workplace: Re-crafting engineering?
Dr Vanda Papafilippou & Miss Lucy Downes The neurodiversity paradigm views neurodiversity as natural variations in human cognition that should ...
Celebrating International Women’s Day: the alta mentoring platform
Written by Prof. Sue Durbin. Blog post originally posted by the Royal Aeronautical Society Today is International Women’s day (IWD) ...
Can industrial relations and trade unions be ‘smart’ in the digital world of work? Insights from three cases: Industry 4.0, e-commerce, and digital platforms in Italy
Dr Stefano Gasparri The effect of digitalization Digitalization has become the ‘buzzword’ that captures all aspects of technological change associated ...
Researching equality, diversity, and inclusion in Italy: why are transsexual individuals not included in the ‘equality debate’?
Please note, this article discusses topics of suicide and discrimination and may be distressing or triggering for some. Links for ...
Graduate Employability – Doing Enough?
Dr John Neugebauer, Visiting Fellow, Bristol Business School How often do we step back to think critically and analytically about ...
The “Necessary evil” of a compliance role for HR: Examining the day-to-day realities of human resources (HR) practice
Dr Helen Mortimore and Dr Catherine Mackintosh The problem for HR practitioners When was the last time you heard somebody ...
Building Organizational Resilience in small and medium enterprises (SMEs): The role of high performance work systems
This guest blog is written by Dr Tinkuma Edafioghor, Senior Lecturer Human Resource Management - Programme Leader Msc HRM. This ...
The Casual Employment of Higher Education Students in the Hospitality Sector: contributing to local labour markets?
This month's guest blog is written by Dr Hilary Drew, Associate Head of Department - Partnerships (BIM) at UWE Bristol ...
The Challenges to Achieving Gender Balance in the Pilot Trainer Role
As of January 2020, there were 185,143 airline pilots in the world, of which 9,746 were women (5.26%) and 2,630 ...
What do we want? Equal Pay! When do we want it? 1970!
This blog post was written by Hazel Conley, Professor of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Business and Law ...
Reducing organisational vulnerability of women: applying organisational research in Mexican-US borderlands
A British Council/Newton Fund Impact Scheme funded project, led by Dr Hugo Gaggiotti, with Dr Isis Diaz Carrion (University of ...
What are employee benefits and who really benefits from their provision?
This month’s guest post on employee benefits is written by Stefano Gasparri, Senior Lecturer in HRM, UWE Bristol. This blog ...
Forbes Article – ‘Gig workers are the workforce of the future: Here’s how to engage them’
Dr Rochelle Haynes, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at UWE Bristol and CEO of Crowd Potential Consulting Group co-authored ...
Power crafting at work: Notes from a journey in search of a phenomenon
This guest post was written by Aykut Berber, Associate Professor in Critical HRM and Management Studies at UWE, Bristol. What ...
The networked self: exploring networks as a source of career development and identity for female engineers
This month's guest post is written by Dr Vanda Papafilippou, Senior Lecturer in HRM, UWE Bristol. Women comprise just 12% ...
Navigating reduced hours careers: experiences of male and female executives and senior managers
A British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project, led by Professor Susan Durbin, with Professor Jennifer Tomlinson (Leeds University Business School) and ...