Our Research

Increasing the understanding of how the housing sector manages the confluence of three major policy challenges: productivity, Net-Zero, and affordable housing.

Understanding how AI could be used to transform businesses’ productivity, planning and strategic decisions by providing personalised and tailored care services to the unique needs of elderly people.

Developing training and action plans for senior leaders to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and boost productivity through meaningful KPIs.

Using workshops to explore the perceived and real barriers that SME leaders face in innovating for increased productivity.

Investigating and comparing the post-COVID green recovery plans and packages for in the UK, Germany and France.

Analysing institutional and policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect on the UK’s labour productivity performance.

Exploring how marketing audits can become more efficient and effective in supporting strategy development.

Investigating how an accelerated zero-carbon transition might affect future UK productivity and will be needed to maximise the benefits of accelerated zero-carbon transitions.

Using various data sources to provide a range of measures of productivity that account for environmental issues.

Exploring the effect of supply chain linkages on productivity, resilience and the relationship between productivity, resilience and spillovers.

Exploring how equipment like home offices, laptop computers and internet connections, combined with working at home, can impact productivity.

Addressing the issues on raising women's contributions to productivity as employment rates by gender converge and analysing whether women's productive contributions are undervalued.

Developing a database to enable analysis of the links between good work and productivity.

Investigating how firms’ increasing use of digital/online talent platforms is cultivating new forms of human capital and impacting on firms’ organisational capabilities and productivity.

Exploring how firms have been affected by the COVID-19 crisis and if UK government support has affected their productivity.

Helping to understand the changing demand for human capital in the UK from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Exploring the barriers to external finance by Small and Medium Enterprises by understanding their key financial metrics and how they discuss investment.

Exploring the links between two critical areas of policy making – supporting innovation and exporting – and their joint link to improving UK productivity.

Discussing the role of public and public/private R&D institutions in strengthening national and regional innovation systems and increasing sectoral productivity performance.

Examining how intangible assets are a key part of productivity by looking in detail at different industries in the UK and US.

Understanding management competencies in the logistics sector, including decision making, resources utilisation, technology investing, leading process and people change.

Working with places to better understand how they can improve productivity, along with their economic and social conditions with the aim of becoming more prosperous.

Focusing on the composition, location and promotion of inward foreign direct investment and impacts on post-Covid-19 productivity.

Examining the issues of labour market skills and income polarization in the UK and how it affects regional economies.

Highlighting how the United States and Europe have also experienced slow productivity growth since 2007.

Studying how environmental targets are impacting on measured total factor productivity in the regulated electricity and gas sectors.

Developing a consistent framework to measure innovative behaviour by firms and how it relates to shifts in demands for skills.

Addressing the seeming paradox of rapid technological change accompanied by low productivity growth.

Aiming to create a consistent long-run analysis of the UK tax system, from around 1850 to present, using archived documents from Inland Revenue.

Exploring the impact of manager training on mental health outcomes or productivity in the workplace.

Understanding how businesses can leverage novel calculative practices enabled by innovative technologies to have a positive environmental impact.

Exploring the use of performance indicators in the UK's cultural heritage sector and how to monitor productivity in the non-profit sector.

Understanding the causes of poor productivity in the infrastructure sector, with a case study on the Thames Tideway project.

Understanding the effects on productivity of the move to Net Zero.

Setting out the methodology used to calculate health productivity in the UK, and trace why the measured productivity has declined so substantially during the pandemic.

Developing an analytical framework which shows how sectoral characteristics determine regional outcomes, in real terms and as conventionally measured.

Understanding the effectiveness of public procurement as a policy lever to drive innovation.

Understanding of how strategic decision making can be improved through the mentoring of senior management responsible for investment and decision-making regarding technology.

Understanding the mismatch between supply and demand of vocational skills at regional and local level.

Compiling a Strategic Roadmap of best practice to help SME Leaders in under-digitalised sectors to build confidence and change their practice.

Understanding of the way Chief Information Officers navigate and make complex decisions regarding investments and the adoption of digital technologies.

Yielding a comprehensive picture of skills most frequently demanded by region and sector, in particular those relating to AI and the digital transformation.

Exploring how improving health outcomes could lead to improved economic productivity.

Uncovering the role that capital shocks and investment allocation processes play in shaping local and regional productivity responses.

Examining the impact of COVID-19 on productivity using national accounts data by industry and sector.

Examining the ways in which UK governance institutions have changed over the last forty years.

Constructing a large firm-level dataset allowing for the analysis of spatial distribution of productivity at a granular level.

Undertaking four case studies to examine the processes by which key drivers of performance impact on the ability to create value and enhance productivity.

Using a mixed-methods approach to understanding the patterns of investment across UK regions, particularly in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Investigating the design of business models by examining the degree of vertical integration and firm productivity among UK manufacturing firms between 2002 to 2018.