Original Thinking Podcast
135 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -In the Original Thinking Podcast, experts and academic colleagues discuss their latest research and original thinking at Alliance MBS.
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The Future of Multinationals with Peter Buckley
March 26, 2024 12:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBPeter Buckley, AMBS's 200th Anniversary Chair in International Business, joins us on our Original Thinking Podcast to talk about the challenges, risks, and future of multinationals.
Nature on the balance sheet
February 13, 2024 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MBIn our latest Original Thinking filmed podcast Beccy Speight, Chief Executive of the RSPB, joined Professor Paulo Quattrone from Alliance Manchester Business School to discuss how businesses must better encompass Nature in their decision-making and also recognise Nature as an active stakeholder.
The opportunities from digital transformation
September 19, 2023 10:59 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBIn this Original Thinking Podcast, Vlad Jiman, Director of Data at NBrown, discusses how to build a data culture within a large organisation with Professor Panos Constantinides from Alliance Manchester Business School.
Business transformation and corporate sustainability | Original Thinking Podcast
August 15, 2023 10:59 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBWhat role can corporate sustainability play in terms of business transformation? Zara De Belder, a recent MBA graduate from Alliance Manchester Business School and sustainability expert, joins Claire Binns, Senior Impact Manager at Sykes Holiday Cottages, to discuss the subject. Claire also talks first-hand about the recent steps Sykes Cottages has taken in terms of its specific approach to measuring and assessing its sustainability credentials.
Lessons from Covid-19 | Original Thinking Podcast
August 01, 2023 10:59 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBThree years on from the height of the pandemic this podcast hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School explores the lessons learnt from Protect, a major UK government study into the transmission of the Covid-19 virus and the wider UK research programme around Covid-19. Debating the findings of the nationwide study are Professor David Fishwick, Chief Medical Advisor at Health and Safety Executive GB, Sheena Johnson, Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing at Alliance Mancheste...
How leaders of large organisations and businesses remain agile | Original Thinking Podcast
July 17, 2023 10:59 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBHow do leaders of large organisations and businesses remain agile and nimble when faced with so many day-to-day challenges? Panos Constantinides, Professor of Digital Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, and Simon Hayward, Managing Director and Global Lead for Leadership and Culture at Accenture, discuss how change takes place across organisations, and in particular look at how to embark upon digital transformation.
Environmental, Social, & Governance with Mr Sadan & Prof Stathopoulos | Original Thinking Podcast
July 04, 2023 10:59 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBWhat does it mean to be truly sustainable and how should companies and organisations approach their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies? These were just some of the key topics explored by Sacha Sadan, Director of ESG at the Financial Conduct Authority, and Professor Konstantinos Stathopoulos from Alliance Manchester Business School, at a podcast hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School.
Covid-19 and the search for a vaccine | Original Thinking Podcast
March 16, 2023 11:59 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBGerman biotech firm BioNTech became world famous for developing the mRNA-based Covid vaccine with Pfizer. One of the key figures behind the success was Chief Business and Commercial Officer Sean Marett, who took his MBA at AMBS. In our latest Original Thinking live podcast, Sean shares the extraordinary story about how the company turned itself on its head from a business developing cancer treatments to one that rapidly began developing a Covid vaccine. He also talks candidly abou...
Advances in data, Artificial Intelligence and analytics for businesses | Original Thinking Podcast
February 20, 2023 11:59 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBAdvances in data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics are completely changing the way we think about and do business. In our first podcast of 2023, which was also filmed in our new podcast suite, Professor Richard Allmendinger from AMBS and David Walters from North-West based fund manager River Capital joined Chair Jim Pendrill from AMBS to discuss the issue. Richard, who is a Professor of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, rece...
New generation innovation policy and the role of place | Original Thinking Podcast
December 15, 2022 12:01 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBThis episode will be hosted by Elvira Uyarra, Professor of Innovation Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School. In recent years, and in response to major societal challenges such as climate change, migration, or food and energy security, innovation policy has both broadened its scope for action and widened the goals it is expected to address. This implies a shift from generic and primarily R&D-based innovation support measures towards a new (or third) ‘generation’ of innovati...
Into the foreground: The emergence of healthcare science and public consciousness | The Teddy Chester Lecture | Original Thinking Podcast
December 08, 2022 11:59 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBBerne Ferry, Head of the National School of Healthcare Science, will deliver this year’s Teddy Chester lecture Into the foreground: The emergence of healthcare science and public consciousness. This annual lecture marks the contribution of Teddy Chester, who was the first professor of social administration at the University of Manchester. From his appointment in the early 1950s, to his retirement in the 1970s he was an influential pioneer in management development, using evidence a...
Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in the wake of Covid-19 | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
December 01, 2022 11:59 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBAt this Vital Topics event we will explore how Covid-19 has created opportunities for change across both central and local government, while our panel will also share their thoughts on the need for deeper resilience building as life gradually returns to normal in the wake of the pandemic. Much has been written over the past two years about how the pandemic will create opportunities for transformative change. But where do we stand today, and is that transformative change really like...
Jan Iceton | Women Leading in Business
November 24, 2022 11:59 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBIn this episode we will hear from Jan Iceton, Chair of Smart Works Greater Manchester. Smart Works Greater Manchester is a truly inspiring charity that has helped over 3,500 unemployed, disadvantaged and often vulnerable women get back into employment. Their motto is “get the clothes, get the confidence, get the job”.... and 72% of their clients do just that. They bounced back quickly after Covid and now deliver circa 100 appointments a month from their centre in Stockport. Now, at...
In conversation with Professor Duncan Shaw, co-founder and co-chair, National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+] | Original Thinking Podcast
November 23, 2022 11:59 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBIn this episode, Professor Duncan Shaw explores how Covid-19 has created opportunities for change across both central and local government. He also shares his thoughts on the need for deeper resilience building as life gradually returns to normal in the wake of the pandemic.
Accounting research in developing countries: potential policy implications | Original Thinking Podcast
November 10, 2022 12:01 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBThis episode will be hosted by Javed Siddiqui, Professor of Accounting, Alliance Manchester Business School. Pressures from various donor agencies (such as the World Bank), combined with the pursuit of legitimacy by governments in many developing countries, have resulted in various western accounting and corporate governance mechanisms to be exported to the developing world. Accounting researchers have identified the inherent limits to what (western) governance systems can achieve...
Miki Shika | Women Leading in Business
November 03, 2022 12:01 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBIn this episode we will hear from Miki Shika, founder of Ekhaya Empowerment Community Interest Company and an entrepreneur with a passion for childcare, families and integration. Miki qualified as a Montessori directress (teacher) almost two decades ago and in that time has mastered her skills in childcare and community engagement with a specialised focus on children, working on the needs of pre-primary school aged children. She has managed nurseries and currently runs a childcare ...
Achieving innovation and incorporating innovation strategies | Scale-Up Forum
October 27, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBThe Scale-Up Forum is a peer-to-peer network for ambitious scaling up businesses in Greater Manchester. It gives businesses at all stages of the scale up journey the opportunity to share experiences, challenges and lessons learnt for mutual business benefit. Launched in 2018, it provides a platform for businesses in the scale up phase to gain insight from their peers and from academic experts on challenges experienced by business growing at pace, whatever their sector. The Forum is...
Audit and Regulatory Reform – Implications for the Profession | Original Thinking Podcast
October 20, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 130 MBAudit in the UK is in transition, with major reform and increased regulation being planned by the Government and the Financial Reporting Council. This episode with ICEAW Manchester and Alliance MBS will give the business community the opportunity to feedback to the government and to comment on the proposed reforms. This episode will also look to highlight the areas where practising and business accountants and Directors can start to understand how to deal with the changes. There wi...
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale | Original Thinking Podcast
October 13, 2022 11:01 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBIn this Original Thinking podcast we will be joined by John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, who will be discussing his book 'The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale'. The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale The premise behind the Voltage Effect is deceptively simple: No great idea is guaranteed to succeed. Be it a life-saving medical breakthrough, a new...
Knowledge and Data-Driven Decision Making | Original Thinking Webinar
October 06, 2022 11:01 - 55 minutes - 75.7 MBThis event is hosted by Yu-Wang Chen, Professor in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics at Alliance Manchester Business School. Knowledge and Data-Driven Decision Making Data-driven decision making is the practice of using data to support decision making, and it becomes more widely recognised with the development of decision science, data science and artificial intelligence. Real-world decision making problems are usually characterised by multiple criteria and associated with ...
Measuring Wellbeing for Organisations | National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Work
July 14, 2022 10:59 - 1 hour - 157 MBPlacing health and wellbeing at the heart of organisations makes business sense. Key business priorities such as productivity and staff retention have been shown to improve significantly when employers genuinely care about employee wellbeing. Younger workers today are also placing an ever-higher priority than previous generations on wellbeing over company loyalty, a trend only accentuated by the pandemic. But to create an authentic and sustained culture of wellbeing in an organisa...
What will come next for UK science and innovation policy? | Original Thinking Podcast
July 07, 2022 10:59 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBThis event will be hosted by Kieron Flanagan, Professor of Science and Technology Policy at Alliance MBS. What next for UK science and innovation policy? The UK was an industrial and scientific pioneer. Yet for nearly as long, the country has fretted about falling behind industrial and technological competitors. For decades the UK’s not terribly impressive R&D/GDP ratio of around 1.7% has resisted all attempts to improve it. For historical reasons, UK government R&D spending is u...
Why some places are more prosperous | Original Thinking Lecture
June 30, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 105 MBThis event will be hosted by Tony Venables CBE, Professor of Economics, Alliance Manchester Business School, and Research Director of The Productivity Institute. Why some places are more prosperous Why are regional disparities so persistent? Why do adjustment mechanisms fail, and what should policy do (and not do)? This lecture will review answers to these questions and offer insights based on a new measure of the structure of the UK’s local economies. Tony Venables Tony is a F...
Chaido Doulala-Rigby (Yuli) | Women Leading in Business
June 23, 2022 10:59 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBThis month we will hear from Chaido Doulala-Rigby (Yuli), chair of ICE North West - Institution of Civil Engineers. Yuli is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), a Fellow of the Permanent Way Institution, and a Fellow of the Institution of Royal Engineers. With over 25 years’ in Geotechnics, her work experience includes working as a Tunnelling Engineer for Balfour Beatty/AMEC JV at the Jubilee Line Extension Tunnelling project in London...
Levelling Up - What, Why, How? | Vital Topics with Andy Haldane
June 16, 2022 10:59 - 1 hour - 117 MBAt this Vital Topics event we will be joined by Andy Haldane, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Arts, former Chief Economist at the Bank of England, and Honorary Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School. Andy will be exploring levelling up in this Vital Topics lecture. Levelling up - where next? Published in February 2022, the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom white paper sets out a plan of action to spread opportunity more equally across the UK. In September 202...
Heather Waters | Women Leading in Business
June 09, 2022 10:59 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBIn this episode, we will hear from Heather Waters, Enterprise Manager, Natwest. With over 20 years B2B experience, Heather is now part of the Women In Business team developing and delivering the strategy to support female entrepreneurs across the U.K. In 2019, the Treasury commissioned Alison Rose, the CEO of NatWest, to lead an independent review of female entrepreneurship. Heather spoke to us last year following the publication of the second annual review, about how she would be ...
Exporting and the UK economy | Vital Topics with Marian Sudbury
June 02, 2022 10:59 - 1 hour - 99 MBAt this Vital Topics event we are joined by Marian Sudbury OBE, Director, Regions, Department for International Trade. The event is facilitated by Mario Kafouros, Professor of International Business & Innovation and Head of the Division of People, Management and Organisations, Alliance Manchester Business School. In her lecture Marian explores why governments including the UK government actively support exporting. She will discuss why governments partake in trade deals, and how th...
Research with impact: health and wellbeing, ageing workforce and Covid-19 | Original Thinking Podcast
May 26, 2022 10:59 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBOur Original Thinking Lecture series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This event is hosted by Sheena Johnson, Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing, Alliance Manchester Business School. In this episode, Sheena details her research into health and wellbeing at work. She outlines her early work into occupational differences and wellbeing related outcomes, before detailing her more recent focus on the ageing workforce which formed an ...
The electric future: Unravelling how automakers collaborate with suppliers to co-develop electric, hybrid, & hydrogen fuel cell technologies | Original Thinking Podcast
May 19, 2022 10:59 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBOur Original Thinking Podcast series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This event is hosted by Antony Potter, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Alliance MBS. The electric future: Unravelling how automakers collaborate with suppliers to co-develop electric, hybrid, & hydrogen fuel cell technologies Over the past ten years automakers have invested heavily in the development of new electric, hybrid, and hydrogen fuel c...
Ali Whitefoot | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
May 12, 2022 10:59 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBIn this episode, we will hear from Ali Whitefoot, Senior Manager at Deloitte UK. Ali leads organisations to get more value from finance. This can range from working with her clients to re-structure themselves to save costs all the way through to ensuring they are providing the business with insightful information to drive better decisions. She has worked for Deloitte for 10 years and is passionate about developing talent within her organisation, thereby ensuring we can provide the...
'How are digital platforms being mobilised to re-imagine the future of cities, who is doing this, and why?' | Original Thinking Podcast
May 05, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBOur Original Thinking Lecture series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This event is hosted by Michael Hodson, Professor of Cities, Innovation and Society at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), at the Innovation, Management and Policy (IMP) division, Alliance Manchester Business School. How are digital platforms being mobilised to re-imagine the future of cities, who is doing this, and why? Innovation with urban infrastructure ...
She's The Business 2022 | Masood Entrepreneurship Centre
April 28, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 126 MBThe University of Manchester celebrates women in business by hosting an inspirational event aimed at showcasing the potential of female entrepreneurship and encouraging students to embrace their creativity, spark connections and test out business ideas. Hosted by the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre, this event features a range of insightful talks and workshops to help build your confidence, broaden your networks, and introduce you to new tools that will help you refine and launch a ...
'Does Proactivity Matter at Work? | Original Thinking Podcast
April 21, 2022 11:01 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBOur Original Thinking Podcast series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This event is hosted by Wing Lam, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Alliance MBS. Does Proactivity Matter at Work? Proactivity continues to be a major research discussion in the field of organisational psychology, with increasing studies on proactive personality, goals, and behaviour appearing in top-tier journals since 2000. Scholars and practitioners agree ...
Workplace Wellbeing & its Impact on Productivity | Scale-Up Forum
April 14, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 110 MBThe Scale-Up Forum is a peer-to-peer network for ambitious scaling up businesses in Greater Manchester. It gives businesses at all stages of the scale up journey the opportunity to share experiences, challenges and lessons learnt for mutual business benefit. After two years of online-only events we are hosting the first Forum event of 2022 in-person and bigger than ever, all welcome. At our annual review of 2021 in December the most popular theme proposed for an event theme in the ...
Dot McCarthy | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
April 07, 2022 11:01 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MBLooking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and make new connections in an informal setting. This month we will hear from Dot McCarthy, farmer at Cronkshaw Fold Farm. Dot runs Cronksha...
Internationalisation: shaping your organisation and your mindset to trade internationally | International Women's Day
March 29, 2022 11:01 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBAt this event we will be joined by Emma Sheldon, Non-Executive Director and Business Consultant, Kellie Noon, founder of Onno, and Ian King, Business Presenter for Sky News. Emma Sheldon Over the past 20 years, Emma has built businesses internationally and led cross-functional teams in marketing, sales, operations and research and development. She participated in a management buy-out of a healthcare business in 2015. Emma now works as a coach and consultant, with recent projects...
Living authentic leadership of a global business during Covid | International Women's Day
March 24, 2022 12:02 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBAt this event we will be joined by Dr Emma Fitzgerald and Dr Jenny Rodriguez. Professor Fiona Devine, Head of Alliance MBS, will open the discussion. Dr Emma Fitzgerald Emma is a business leader with a passion for building great teams and bringing innovations to market to address the worlds big challenges. Most recently she was CEO of Puma Energy focused on delivering affordable and sustainable energy solutions to emerging markets in Africa, Central America and Asia. Prior to thi...
Is pay transparency the answer to closing the gender pay gap | International Women's
March 22, 2022 12:01 - 58 minutes - 81 MBThe gender pay gap in the UK and elsewhere in Europe has remained stubbornly high. The EU is proposing a pay transparency directive to provide new impetus to ensuring equal pay for work of equal value. The UK introduced gender pay gap reporting measures in response to earlier EU recommendations to increase pay transparency; if the UK was still an EU member this proposal for wider pay transparency would be a hot issue in HR. Pay transparency measures are also being adopted outside th...
Empowering women in the economy through financial inclusion | International Women’s Day
March 17, 2022 12:01 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBAt this event we will be joined by Sola David-Borha, Chairman Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Jennifer Rose, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Alliance MBS, and Damaris Albarran, Chair of the Advisory Board, AMBS. Sola David-Borha Sola is the Chairman Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited and Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company...
Business ethics for the transition to Net-Zero | Grigor McClelland series | Original Thinking Podcast
March 10, 2022 12:01 - 1 hour - 127 MBBusinesses are central in enabling global transitions to Net-Zero carbon energy and land-use systems. Business firms will need to innovate and scale new technologies, goods and services, business models and markets that make this new, more sustainable world become a reality. In the process, business incentives, accountabilities, and legitimacy will also be transformed. Institutions matter and they evolve. To meet the Net-Zero challenge, business organisations themselves are needing...
Delight Mapasure | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
March 03, 2022 12:01 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBThis month we hear from Delight Mapasure, CEO and Co-Founder at K'S WORS LTD. Delight Mapasure is an award-winning entrepreneur who successfully created a six-figure food brand from her kitchen table to retail shelves The former Dragon’s Den participant co-founded K’s Wors Ltd - a multi-award winning eclectic range of South African Boerewors sausages. Hosted by MBA alumna Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development.
From Sustainability to Sustainable Performance | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
February 17, 2022 12:01 - 1 hour - 122 MBTo avert the catastrophic impact of climate change and meet the targets of the Paris Agreement targets, we need to reduce carbon emissions by 50% this decade, a further 50% the next decade, and be net zero by 2050. However, achieving these targets will be no mean feat. Locking the world down in 2020 achieved only a reduction of about 5-7%. So how can we achieve a radical reduction in carbon emissions without destroying global economies? And how will leaders respond to this challeng...
How behavioural insights has transformed public policy, and what next | Original Thinking Podcast
February 10, 2022 12:01 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBIn this episode, Felicity talks about the evolution of behavioural insights from a phrase coined by a small government team in 2010 to a policy approach that touches the lives of millions of people around the world. She also discusses her current areas of focus and where behavioural insights might be used in the next 10 years. This event was facilitated by Liz Richardson, Professor of Public Administration at the University of Manchester.
Amna Abdullatif | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
February 03, 2022 11:59 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBThis month we hear from Amna Abdullatif, councillor for Ardwick, Central Manchester. Amna is a community psychologist who has worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years, previously leading the work on children and young people for the national domestic abuse charity Women's Aid and currently as assistant director for youth empowerment at the Anne Frank Trust. She completed her masters in community psychology and has her thesis 'The voices of women in the Arab Spring' publis...
Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare | Teddy Chester Lecture | Original Thinking Podcast
November 25, 2021 12:01 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBDr Mark Britnell, Vice Chair and Global Health Expert, KPMG UK, and award-winning author, delivers this year’s Teddy Chester lecture, Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare. By 2030, the world will be short of 18 million health workers – a fifth of the total capacity to care. Mark draws on his work in 80 countries to offer solutions to this growing crisis and presents unique insights on what works, and what doesn’t. Reframing the global workforce problem to one o...
Jennie Johnson MBE | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
November 18, 2021 12:01 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBThis month we will hear from Jennie Johnson MBE, CEO and co-founder, My First Five Years Limited. Authentically passionate about improved outcomes for every child, Jennie’s most recent eureka moment in January 2021 led her to founding My First Five Years Ltd, a ground-breaking App to support and empower parents and provide expert knowledge to guide their child(ren) through the unique journey of their first five years. Formerly Founder and CEO of the multi-award winning Kids Allowe...
Skill-underutilisation and discrimination in the labour market: Why it matters and what can be done about it? | Original Thinking Podcast
November 12, 2021 11:59 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MBThis event will be hosted by Anthony Rafferty, Professor of Employment Studies and Managing Director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance MBS. The people management case for workplace equality, diversity and inclusion is often made in terms of ethical or social responsibility reasons, or the benefits to the bottom line of a ‘business case.’ In this Original Thinking lecture, Anthony will examine evidence for an argument traversing both perspectives: That workplace discr...
Kathleen Harrison | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
November 04, 2021 12:01 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBThis month we will hear from Kathleen Harrison, Associate Director, Jacobs. With over 20 years’ experience in the construction industry, Kathleen is an Associate Director with Jacobs working as a Framework Manager delivering projects for a local authority in North West England. Having worked in a male dominated environment for her entire career, she is passionate about promoting gender equality, inclusion and STEM, and over the last 5 years she has become an advocate for positive me...
Decision Making in Machine Learning | Original Thinking Podcast
October 28, 2021 11:01 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MBThis episode will be hosted by Julia Handl, Professor in Decision Sciences at Alliance MBS. Her expertise lies in the areas of optimisation, data-mining and machine learning and she has a keen interest in the development and use of these techniques in challenging application areas. We all face and make decisions on an ongoing basis, whether at work or in our private lives. The vast majority of these decisions involve trade-offs between multiple criteria, be it healthiness versus ta...
Launch of National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+] | the Manchester Briefing
October 21, 2021 10:59 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBThe response and recovery to COVID-19 has been a whole-of-society effort where every community has played a crucial role. To maintain this outpouring of goodwill, local government and voluntary organisations have been discussing how to renew their efforts on community resilience to ensure that a positive legacy of the pandemic is a more cohesive, risk-aware, and prepared society that can work with local government to enhance its own local resilience. In the UK, this ambition was ga...