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Decent Work and Productivity research projects

A selection of our research, exploring aspects of employability, employment practices and the future of work.

The health and social care workforce

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Healthcare innovation in Greater Manchester

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

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Women's health in the workplace

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    Perinatal mental health and employment

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

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    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.

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  • The image shows someone having taken off their glasses looking tired and struggling at work

    Menopause in the workplace

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

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  • The image shows a NHS worker holding a baby in their arms

    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.

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    Fertility journeys and the workplace

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

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Projects

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    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.

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    The Good Employment Charter

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

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    Young workers in Greater Manchester

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

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    Engaged Scholarship Learning Lab

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

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    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.

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    Graduate careers and employability

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

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    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.

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    Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry

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

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    Women's Enterprise Policy Group

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

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  • A woman buying products from sustainable living shop

    Performance Diagnostic and Strategic Management Analysis Toolkit

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

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  • A care worker helps a man with a frame to walk down a corridor

    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.

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    The Good Employment Learning Lab

    Helping managers becoming more effective at people management.

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Making a difference

Making a Difference: Our impact

The Business School delivers outstanding research that addresses some of the biggest challenges facing contemporary society. Our research briefings below summarise the breadth of our innovative and impactful work from academics within the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity.