'Done well, upshifting helps you to gain experience and develop capabilities that support your promotion prospects'💬

Professor Nicki Newman co authored an article with Rachael Lamb and Rushana Khusainova, Ph.D from University of Bristol Business School for Times Higher Education. Read more ⬇

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🗣️ More research is not needed; action is needed. Action to reduce poverty can be taken almost immediately.

Sir Michael Marmot and The BMJ recommend introducing the Essentials Guarantee into Universal Credit to ensure everyone can afford the essentials: bmj.com/content/385/bm

This #EarthDay the Centre for Responsible Business has teamed up with @UoBLibservices! Dive into our diverse book display exploring the #SDGs at the main library and enrich your understanding of sustainability.
Explore the resource list here: tinyurl.com/bd9t52km

***Exciting JACR announcement***

JACR issue on Body Building: Growing the Body of Consumer Research on the Body

Issue Editors: Cristel Antonia Russell, L. J. Shrum, Pilar Rojas-Gaviria, and Céline Del Bucchia

Join us for the launch of two new books on 21st March: The Hipster Economy by Alessandro Gerosa and Researching Poverty and Austerity by Prof Deirdre O'Loughlin Morven McEachern & Caroline Moraes. Learn how authenticity and austerity shape our consumption and communities.

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#BookLaunch #alert ! Are you curious about my #HipsterEconomy book? Thursday 21st of March is the day! I joined forces with Caroline Moraes, Prof Deirdre O'Loughlin, and Morven McEachern for a joint book presentation on #taste , #class , and #capitalism . Register here: forms.office.com/e/eG7kWeJUjJ

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
Future Food Symposium is returning to University of Nottingham on 20th-21st May 2024. This two day event is free and has limited spaces, so sign up now to avoid disappointment. Amazing list of speakers already agreed to speak.
Visit: futurefoodsymposium.uk

Four in five billboard ads in England and Wales in poorer areas theguardian.com/media/2024/mar…

Colleagues, we are hiring! Please see job advert here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DGD828/ass…

This is a great opportunity to pursue meaningful research with two research centres committed to engaged research

Are you an #EarlyCareerResearcher working on #foodsystems issues?

Submit a poster proposal for the 2024 City Food Policy Symposium on local and regional food policy. Poster numbers are limited. Deadline 7 March.

city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

#CityFoodSym #localfood

'We must continue to build momentum and call on the government to commit to extending the Household Support Fund beyond March 2024.' Penny Rimmer Greater Manchester Poverty Action
And you can read our joint blog on the future of crisis support - ifanuk.org/3UDNRUB
gmpovertyaction.org/reflections-on…

Rather than 'complex and varied' the reason people turn to food banks is simple and singular: lack of income to afford food.

We need to urgently see more #CashFirst responses including the continuation of the #HouseholdSupportFund so that no one needs to turn to charity to eat.

So proud of our PhD student, Kelly Bell (thon) Wang, who passed her PhD viva this afternoon. Congratulations, Dr Wang! Thank you, Alessandro Gerosa and Claudia E Henninger for being wonderful examiners, plus Inci Toral Manson for chairing the viva and the supervision team, Isabelle Szmigin and Dr Doğa İstanbulluoğlu

In 2024 we are setting up a New Canteen Culture Working Group at Business in Society, bringing together stakeholders from across the UK to imagine how public dining models can address food security and sustainability, and bring pleasure and conviviality to the masses.

🗣️who’s in?

Congratulations, Dr Dr Samantha Ford (Sammy), for passing your viva!

Are you interested in taking part in 'Learning from the Lionesses: Transformative media and marketing for inclusive sport' a symposium for UK researchers. linkedin.com/pulse/learning… via LinkedIn

So here’s the thing, colleagues. Authorship is about contributing intellectually to research design, analysis, writing and/or conceptualisation. If you claim to write a book but have only contributed a chapter (or less than that), well…

This is really worrying. No wonder so many people are falling ill with #cancer . What action can we take? ‘ #Foreverchemicals found in #drinkingwater sources across England theguardian.com/environment/20…

“They are trying to silence us but we won’t back down...They can threaten and beat us but what they don’t understand is, we have nothing to lose. If we accept their ridiculous wage proposal, we will starve to death anyway.”
theguardian.com/global-develop…