Brendan Lambe. Lecturer in Finance and an Irish European, reflects on the meaning of the referendum. On the morning of the 24th of June we awoke to a Britain which had changed utterly. A palpable sense of bewilderment remains with us still. In no quarter was the sting of this decision felt more […]
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Leicester – A Champions League City
Martin Quinn discusses the urban policies and strategies which have made the city of Leicester so successful in recent years. Leicester has made the headlines in a number of ways of late, home of the champions of English Football as well as highly successful basketball and rugby union teams. Even the cricket team […]
Who Cares for Academics?
In this blog, Eda Ulus and Charlotte Smith ask us to think about academics and whether they are allowed to express emotion. What would you think if I suddenly started crying? How would you respond? These are questions that Eda asks students, to introduce a lecture on emotions in working life. […]
Brexit: How Does it Look from Gibraltar?
In April 2015, in the run-up to the British general election, I predicted that, counter-intuitively, the best outcome for the UK overseas territory of Gibraltar might well be a Labour or Labour-SNP coalition government. True enough, the Conservative Party has traditionally been seen as a more resilient defender of Gibraltar’s sovereignty, whilst the Labour Party, […]
The World that Management Made
Robert MacFarlane’s excellent piece on the ‘Anthropocene’ age in a recent issue of The Guardian deserves attention in a number of ways. The idea of the Anthropocene is that it is a planetary age made by humans, no less than the volcanos and ice sheets of earlier times. Forging a synthesis from the highly separated […]
Advancing Management Research, or Advancing Elite Interests?
The Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) spent nearly £30 million of ESRC money in over a decade in an attempt to raise the dismal standard of research in management studies. AIM determined to back the academic rather than the research proposal, a bold and worthy venture that was always likely to fail. And fail it […]
I don’t want what men have
The recent weeks saw another celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD). Generally, I get what IWD is about and why we (still) need it. I get that most people involved with it hope it will be a historical oddity one day but I also understand that a day dedicated to celebrating women probably means a […]
I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed
Okay, I lied. I’m angry and disappointed. I also feel tired, defeated and fed up. (Women, eh? Always with the multitasking.) Why? Let me set the scene: First, here’s a list of all the initiatives the University of Leicester has joined or set up to promote gender equality, including but not limited to: Being one […]
Just Not Sorry
A ‘Just Not Sorry’ app has recently gained publicity, in which women in particular are encouraged to stop saying sorry. It is said to be inspired by an American “life coach”, Tara Mohr, who wrote a book, Playing Big, which encourages women to be more positive and assertive. Mohr suggests that by using words like […]
Has Claudio Ranieiri out-foxed his rivals?
How much credit for almost a season of performances, which even the most foolhardy of supporters could not have dreamed of, can be meaningfully attributed to good management? We ask the experts: management academics! A year ago things were looking pretty ominous for Leicester City Football Club. Having easily won promotion to the top […]
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