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.… Read … Read more
Category: Thought leadership
New report launched on the impact of COVID-19 on Air Navigation Service Providers
An international research team consisting of Professor Peter Turnbull (University of Bristol), Dr Huw Thomas (University College Dublin) and Professor Geraint Harvey (Western University) have spent the past two years researching the impact of COVID-19 on Air Navigation Service Providers … Read more
Women in Leadership | MSc Strategy, Change and Leadership
I found my way to the MSc in Strategy, Change and Leadership at the University of Bristol when I was three years into my role as CEO of a Bristol charity. The charity provided therapy to children and adults who’d … Read more
Leading in Crisis | Discovery Series
Hear from our alumni and academic community
‘A crisis is an event which has low predictability and high uncertainty. It is a poorly defined problem and has a lack of clarity about impact and options. Therefore as leaders it is … Read more
Is Zuckerberg’s Metaverse a good idea?
Lecturer in Digital Marketing at the University of Bristol Business School, Dr Ana Javornik, explores the Metaverse announcement – but is it a good idea?… Read more… Read more
COP26: How accounting and finance can take sustainability beyond ‘blah, blah, blah’. – Dr Alice Bryer
“Accounting and finance, isn’t that all about about making the world a worse place?” – I’m paraphrasing, but this is basically the response from a friend, involved in climate activism, when I mentioned that sustainability is now a core topic … Read more
A four day week – is it workable?
Dr Harry Pitts, University of Bristol Business School
Over the past decade, the issue of a four-day working week has been widely discussed as one way of escaping the broken relationship between work, welfare, and ceaseless economic growth. More recently, … Read more
What we explored at the 4th Bristol Workshop on Banking and Financial Intermediation
Organised by the Banking group of the University of Bristol Business School, the fourth iteration of the Annual Workshop on Banking and Financial Intermediation at the University of Bristol took place on 28 May as a virtual conference. The aim … Read more
Wirecard – a case of misguided industrial policy?
In light of the Wirecard scandal, Dr Tobias Dieler, Lecturer in Finance, discusses what exactly could have caused the fintech giant’s fall from grace, and how much policy-makers and financial regulators have to answer for.… What could COVID-19 mean for finance?
The arrival of COVID-19 has brought with it huge levels of uncertainty for individuals, businesses and communities across the globe. With the situation seeming to develop almost by the hour, the finance industry is just one area experiencing fallout as … Read more