Research

Our research is based around the themes of economic change, high performing organisations, the future of work and the quality of working life. We undertake programmes of research and offer advisory consulting that provide organisations, policy-makers and opinion formers with fresh thinking to deal with change successfully.

Current Programmes:

Ideopolis : Knowledge City Regions

Providing strategic insight into how knowledge cities are created, how they relate to nearby towns,cities and rural areas and how individual cities can respond to the challenges of the knowledge economy.

Knowledge Economy

Gaining insight and understanding into how the evolving knowledge economy and the way we work project into social, corporate and political worlds.

Health and Wellbeing

Promoting a systematic approach to creating healthy workplaces, providing a business case for focusing on health and wellbeing and demonstrating the positive impact of that on productivity in the workplace.

Leading for Sustainable High Performance

Transforming leadership capacity in organisations to enable sustainable high performance and to enable the conditions for healthy, happy and productive work.

The Good Work Commission

This programme aims to think through and report on the major challenges of work in the 21st century in order to arrive at an understanding of how more work could be designed to be better work.

The Future of HR

Exploring how staff in the twenty first century service organisations should be managed fairly and effectively to achieve and sustain high performance in the context of an increasingly sophisticated citizen and customer base.