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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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alliance manchester business school magazine issue 7 front cover Issue 7: The Productivity Institute Launch, Covid recovery, social entrepreneurship
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, 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

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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AMBS to investigate how organisations embed SDGs

Monday, May 24, 2021

Alliance MBS has won a grant from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to investigate how organisations embed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their strategic business decisions. >>

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Academics feature in new publication on digital inequalities

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

AMBS academics feature prominently in a new publication from Policy@Manchester which assesses the digital divide in the UK and the impact the pandemic is having on such inequalities. >>

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KTP project wins at Educate North Awards

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between Alliance Manchester Business School and British Salt has won the Business Collaboration and Partnerships Award at the recent Educate North Awards. >>

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Work and Equalities Institute PGR Seminar: Conducting remote research

Thursday, April 15, 2021

On Friday 9 April 2021 the Work and Equalities Institute doctoral researchers organised and hosted a seminar entitled ‘Conducting remote research’, >>

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AMBS data scientists help map extent of refunds culture in online fashion

Friday, March 26, 2021

While many online fashion retailers have experienced huge growth during the pandemic, they are also having to contend with the ever increasing problem of high returns. >>

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Challenges for working women during the pandemic

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

The Work and Equalities Institute has produced a briefing note for the GM (Greater Manchester) 4Women’s Employment Action Group which lays bare the challenges for working women in the wake of the pandemic. >>

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AMBS completes innovative KTP with leading law firm

Monday, March 1, 2021

Alliance Manchester Business School has completed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with global legal business DWF which has led to the launch of an insurance intelligence tool. >>

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Academic cited in major review into gender impact of pandemic

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Professor Jill Rubery, Director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance MBS, is cited in a major parliamentary report highlighting how existing gendered inequalities in the economy have been ignored and sometimes exacerbated by the pandemic policy response. >>

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