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Alliance Manchester Business School’s twice-yearly magazine features interviews and thought leadership from our academics and research students.

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The cover of AMBS Magazine issue 8 Issue 8: Healthier decisions, food retailing, supply chains and social responsibility
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the illustrated cover of the new ambs magazine Issue 6: North South divide, the future of banking, developing resilience and the value of patents
Alliance Manchester Business School Research Magazine Issue Five Issue 5: Automation and work, Andy Burnham, data visualisation and tackling poverty pay
Alliance Manchester Business School Research Magazine Issue Four Issue 4: Brexit and gender equality, Alan Turing Fellows, the future of audit and research-led teaching
Alliance Manchester Business School Research Magazine Issue Three Issue 3: Business engagement, employee ownership models, global warming and Manchester’s economic transformation.
Alliance Manchester Business School Research Magazine Issue Two Issue 2: Fintech, automation and AI, corporate governance, PFT and well-being
Alliance Manchester Business School Research Magazine Issue One Issue 1: Business and human rights, diversity, Shared Parental Leave, infrastructure and employee gentleness.

Research news

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Tackling Inequalities: Regional inequalities

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Different regions throughout the UK have very different levels of development and productivity. But what can explain this difference? >>

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Answering the big climate questions

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Academics from across Alliance Manchester Business School are taking part in the Manchester Festival of Climate Action next month. >>

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Tackling inequalities: Development inequalities

Monday, September 20, 2021

Academics at Alliance Manchester Business School understand that the research on development inequalities is delivered in an effective and socially responsible manner. >>

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Inequalities research: Infrastructure

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Here we examine some of that research undertaken about the role of infrastructure in addressing inequalities >>

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CAIR Director interviewed on how accounting can help deal with environmental crisis

Monday, July 26, 2021

CAIR Director Paolo Quattrone, Professor of Accounting, Governance and Society at Alliance MBS, has been interviewed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in response to a major report on biodiversity and economics. >>

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Members of the Work and Equalities Institute secure major grant looking at equality policies at work across Europe

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio and Dr. Stefania Marino at the Work and Equalities Institute (WEI) have been awarded a major grant looking at how equality policies and regulation at work have developed across different European countries. >>

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Global issues under spotlight in latest issue of AMBS magazine

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

The productivity puzzle, the future of capitalism, and the risks of global supply chains, are among the subjects that come under the spotlight in the latest issue of the Alliance MBS magazine. >>

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Judiciary system is a good model for auditing, says CAIR director

Monday, July 5, 2021

A letter from Paolo Quattrone, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk, in which he discusses audit market reform has been published by the Financial Times. >>

PhD profile Alysha Shivji

AMBS PhD researcher wins University Making a Difference Award

Monday, June 7, 2021

Congratulations go to Alysha Shivji, AMBS PhD researcher, who has won the 2021 University of Manchester’s Making a Difference award for Outstanding Benefit to Society Through Research. >>

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Financial Reporting Council commissions AMBS for major study

Monday, May 24, 2021

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has commissioned Alliance Manchester Business School to explore how leading companies are using scenario analysis to disclose climate-related risks. >>

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