Raising a Glass to the English Wine Industry: Why we will be cracking open the English Fizz this Christmas
Senior Lecturers in Organisation Studies, Sarah Robinson and Elke Weik, get us in the seasonal spirit: Cheers! We are both wine lovers and organisational researchers, curious about the factors underpinning the growing success of English wine. How, we are interested in finding out, in the short space of 40 years, has this industry developed from […]

A Multi-Scalar Solution for England
Lecturer in Regional Development at the School Martin Quinn outlines his proposal for a new regional development infrastructure The recent referendum on Scottish independence has plugged ‘the West Lothian Question’ back into the political mainstream. Tam Dayell’s original concern in raising this question was with parliamentary representation whereas today the controversy is over parliamentary devolution. […]
Managing Englishness
In the run up to Saint George’s Day, Richard Courtney, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, underlines why the nature of ‘Englishness’ should matter to scholars and practitioners of management I’m not usually one for name-dropping but in 2007 I met Billy Bragg at a seminar on Englishness in Contemporary Britain. This was a […]
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