Centre for Organisational and Employee Well-being launch

The University of Liverpool Management School is launching the new Centre for Organisational and Employee Well-being in autumn 2022.

Date: Wednesday 19 October 2022
Time: 2-4pm
Place: University of Liverpool Management School, Seminar Room 1 (first floor)

The Centre brings together interdisciplinary researchers to shed light on how organising and managing affects production, working life and health.

Focusing on ‘People and Change Management Practices’ and ‘Equality, Diversity and Wellbeing’ research, the Centre provides evidence-based insights on how to thrive and flourish, whether as organisations or as an employee.

Under the theme ‘Well-Being at Liverpool’, the event is an opportunity to present the Centre’s research agenda and to outline future plans that include building links with local business seeking to foster positive health and wellbeing across their workforce.

Launch event agenda

The event will be hosted by the Centre’s Director, Professor Damian O’Doherty, who will be joined by guest speakers:

  • Mark Diacono, Otter Farm Founder, collaborator at Channel 4’s River Cottage series, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Liverpool.
  • Dr Sally Penni MBE, legal barrister, public speaker and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) advocate
  • Professor David Jones, Leadership and Human Resource Management Professor at Northumbria University.

Together, they will discuss and engage in debate over the following questions:

  • What is happiness and wellbeing? Who has access to them? Who is denied?
  • How do businesses and managers ‘know’ wellbeing?
  • What are the limitations to what business and management ‘can know’ about wellbeing?
  • How can different disciplines, such as psychology, economics, sociology, political science, etc, help to understand organisational and employee wellbeing?
  • Are we suffering from a commercialised ‘wellness syndrome’?
  • How does our research at Liverpool contribute to the question of wellbeing?

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