The University of Bristol Business School is delighted to announce the publication of ‘The Threat: How Digital Capitalism is Sexist – And How to Resist’ by Dr Lilia Giugni, Lecturer in Social Innovation and Strategy.
The book explores the tight embrace between patriarchy and digital capitalism, and what we should do to resist. Here, Dr Lilia Giugni discusses her new book and the explanation she offers for the current state of things grounded in the tight intersections between technological developments, patriarchal culture, and capitalistic ways of productions. (more…)
Dr Vanessa Beck of the University of Bristol Business School has been awarded a grant of £975k from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to study underemployment and the lived experience of underemployed workers. The project is a collaboration with Prof Tracey Warren and Dr Luis Torres-Retamal from the University of Nottingham, Dr Daiga Kamērade, University of Salford, and Dr Vanesa Fuertes, University of the West of Scotland and will start in January 2023.
After two years of online events, this year we are excited to resume face-to-face sessions, with most of the speakers coming to Bristol, spending a day visiting the Business School and meeting our faculty. Our Seminar Series is the result of excellent speaker suggestions from our faculty members and a shortlisting based on both academic and diversity criteria. 
We’re proud to announce that on 1st September 2022, Professor Palie Smart of the University of Bristol Business School was conferred the British Academy of Management (BAM) Fellowship.
Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Electronics Watch. This will give her the opportunity to make leadership decisions regarding how to safeguard workers’ rights in the electronics industry at a global level.
A new report by Dr Raffaello Rossi and Professor Agnes Nairn from the University of Bristol, has exposed how children and young people are vulnerable to the growing popularity of gambling adverts on social media, prompting calls from experts for much tighter regulations.
Piotr Korczak, Associate Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance, our much loved and respected colleague, has died at the age of 42.