Senior Lecturer Human Resource Management, University of York Jane's research focuses on managing mental health and wellbeing, employee voice and engagement, work-life balance and presenteeism. Her work analyses the contextual features which inhibit and facilitate organisational practices. Understanding employee perspectives on the nature of their work and its impact on their wellbeing and engagement is central to her approach as is conducting research which has a practical application. She is particularly interested in line manager behaviour and the role informal processes play in influencing employee attitudes and behaviour. Her research combines both quantitative and qualitative case study methods and includes interviewing and surveying both managers and employees. Jane's current research focuses on managing mental health in small and micro businesses: https://mhsb.york.ac.uk/. She discusses mental health in the workplace on the Public Health England/Behavioural Science and Public Health Network podcast: https://bit.ly/3nNyy7w. She is currently Co-Investigator on an UKRI ESRC funded project examining the Impact of COVID-19 on SMEs Staff Mental Health and Well-Being: Practices, Interventions and Strategy to Support Workforce and Enhance Productivity. Jane was Principal Investigator on a research project part funded by The Wellcome Trust through the Centre for Future Health at the University of York. This interdisciplinary project evaluates the impact of extended shift hours in a Mental Health Trust on employee wellbeing, work life balance and organisational outcomes as employees adapt and respond to change; watch a film for Chartered Association of Business Schools on our work Jane has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Liverpool. She worked as an IT analyst in London before completing a MSc Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at Manchester School of Management, UMIST. She was awarded a PhD in Human Resource Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland Jennifer Lees-Marshment is a research-led but practice-oriented cross-disciplinary academic working in the areas of Political Marketing, Political Management, Political Leadership and Public Participation. She is author/editor of 18 books, a world expert in political marketing, recipient of the International Association for Public Participation Research Award for Australasia and A-rated in the New Zealand external research assessment. Jennifer is an academic advisor to TVNZ’s Vote Compass (2014, 2017, 2020, 2023) which has engaged over a million members of the public in discussing politics and policy. She founded the Community of Interest in Employability. (https://canvas.auckland.ac.nz/courses/42445) and is co-convenor of the COI in Research Impact.
PhD Candidate, Centre for Technomoral Futures, The University of Edinburgh Jamie Webb is a doctoral researcher in the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Technomoral Futures. Between 2021-22 he worked for the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator focussing on public values, transparency and governance. Jamie was previously a research associate in the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He has a BA in Philosophy and an MSci in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in Bioethics from NYU, where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship.
Lecturer in Forensic Science, University of Winchester I have acted for 13 years as an official (government) public officer in a Forensic capacity in Brazil, mostly in Forensic Toxicology and analysis of seized drugs. For my Masters' and PhD I have studied public policies around drunk driving in Brazil and Norway.
Senior Lecturer in Geography, York St John University Jude Parks is a social geographer with interest in community participation. Her work explores understandings of social sustainability and its links with environmental sustainability and responses to climate crisis. She is currently involved in cross-disciplinary pedagogical research into student engagement with climate and ecological justice, including through a Living Lab project.
Professor of Law, University of Richmond Julie E. McConnell is a Professor of Law, Legal Practice and Director of the Children’s Defense Clinic. In addition, she teaches Advanced Clinical Practice and has taught Juvenile Delinquency Law and Procedure and the Science of False Confessions. She has worked in youth justice for more than 25 years and is a frequent speaker, writer, and trainer on best practices in holistic representation, trauma-informed, client-centered practice, the impact of child abuse on children, child mental health, and clinical education. She and her students primarily represent indigent youth on a pro bono basis, handling motions, trials, sentencings, custody proceedings, school-based proceedings, and post-conviction hearings. Clinic students have avoided felonies for almost all their trial clients and gained early release for many adults sentenced as children who have rehabilitated themselves during their incarceration.
