Bristol Leadership and Change Centre (BLCC)

Every year Research, Business and Innovation (RBI) invite Early Career Researchers working at UWE Bristol to apply for the Vice-Chancellors Early Career Researcher (VC ECR) Development Award. The award is open to members of staff who are in the early stages of their research career, typically within five years of their first academic appointment on … Continue reading "Innovative projects receive Vice-Chancellors Early Career Researcher Awards"

Professors Peter Case and Jonathan Gosling from UWE Bristol, recently published a set of open access resources in collaboration with the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) and the University of California, San Francisco. The resources are entitled LEAD: Leadership & Engagement for Improved Accountability & Delivery of Services Framework  and comprise a set of guidelines and … Continue reading "Publication of Malaria Elimination Open Access Resources"

The following excerpts are taken from an article written by Harriet Shortt for Organizational Aesthetics, the full article can be read here. As I look back on the events of last year, like so many people, my reflections turn to how our home has been central to all that we have done and all that … Continue reading "Desperately Seeking ‘Self-ish’ space: the year of Covid-19, lockdown and making dens"

Creative Workforce for the Future is a one year pilot developing industry employment practices embracing inclusion and diversity as an asset, and nurtures young talent from under-represented groups to gain the experience required to sustain a creative career. A key aspect of the programme is supporting creative SMEs to develop a more inclusive workforce and … Continue reading "Creative Workforce for the Future – developing an inclusive workforce"

Leadership experts from around the world will gather live and online 5 – 9 November for the International Leadership Association’s (ILA’s) virtual global conference, Leading at the Edge. Global leaders and featured speakers will meaningfully address the changing role of leadership globally in an era of COVID-19, declining democratic norms, social justice movements, economic uncertainty, … Continue reading "Global Leaders gather at ILA Conference"

We are delighted to welcome Jackie Ford, Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at Durham University Business School, to present a virtual Distinguished Professorial Address Lecture based on ‘A critical rethink of relational leadership: recognising the mutual dynamic between leaders and led’. Many accounts of leadership studies appear to take too lightly, if they treat … Continue reading "Distinguished Professorial Address Lecture with Jackie Ford"

In September Peter Case, Professor of Organization Studies at UWE Bristol delivered a webinar for staff and doctoral students at the College of Business, Law & Governance – James Cook University in Australia. Here is a summary of his presentation, talking about multidisciplinary research teams and transdisciplinary impacts. Researchers increasingly find themselves inhabiting a world … Continue reading "Multidisciplinary Research Teams and Transdisciplinary Impacts"

Written by Dr Arthur F Turner – Senior Lecturer in Organisational Studies, UWE, Bristol. Since 2008 I have been looking into the growth of leadership in managers and, more broadly speaking, I have been journeying towards a degree of understanding of how these ‘magical’ transitions take place. I have more recently been tutoring and facilitating … Continue reading "Bringing Ideas to Life: The role of mediating objects"