Decent Work and Productivity research projects

Delegated healthcare in Greater Manchester

Understanding delegated healthcare – the blended roles of community nurses from the NHS and adult social care workers from private care providers.

Creating an adult social care workforce strategy for Cornwall

Helping Cornwall Council to create an adult social care workforce strategy for its independent sector workforce.

Gender pay gaps in medicine

Analysis to explain the causes of gender pay gaps throughout the medical profession, including by hours, grade, experience and additional payments.

Investigating variation in pay in adult social care

Exploring how local conditions, such as deprivation, and local authority processes for buying care, affect pay variations in adult social care.

Healthcare innovation in Greater Manchester

Evaluating the application and increasing adoption of research-based innovations to improve healthcare.

Perinatal mental health and employment

Shining a light on new and expectant parent mental health, and the connections with work and employment.

Women’s health strategy in healthcare

Understanding women’s reproductive health in healthcare employment to support the Well Women Strategy of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

Menopause in the workplace

Exploring women’s experiences of menopause transition in the workplace, including the police service and the NHS.

Innovating workplace maternity management in the NHS

A three-year university innovation partnership designed to improve the experience for NHS staff during pregnancy and maternity.

Fertility journeys and the workplace

Exploring the connection between work and fertility - and addressing the gap in knowledge around workplace fertility support.

Universal Credit and employers

How Universal Credit and the UK's active labour market policies affect the way businesses recruit, retain and progress their staff.

The Good Employment Charter

An evaluation of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter with Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

Young workers in Greater Manchester

Exploring young people’s experiences of work and employment in an uncertain job market.

Engaged Scholarship Learning Lab

Sharing research and practice experience to improve the skills of researchers, policymakers and organisations.

Championing change for BAME leadership

Working with housing providers in Greater Manchester to investigate obstacles to career progression for Black, Asian and Minoritized Ethnic employees.

Graduate careers and employability

Assessing the impact of a graduate employment project that helps students access creative, digital and technology jobs.

Student and graduate employability

Evaluating a new careers project at Manchester Met to explore the impact on students' perceptions of their employability and graduate outcomes.

Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry

A team of cyber security researchers helping businesses to protect, develop and grow their cyber operations.

Women's Enterprise Policy Group

A partnership sharing research and practice evidence to enable women to succeed in business enterprise.

Performance Diagnostic and Strategic Management Analysis Toolkit

Providing a fast and simple way to comprehensively analyse a social enterprise’s organisational capabilities.

Finding good work in a crisis

There's a crisis in adult social care affecting almost all developed economies. Research at Manchester Met is casting light on the problem and pointing to some potential solutions.

The Good Employment Learning Lab

Helping managers becoming more effective at people management.