The past two months have been very busy and productive for the team and project. We are now deep into the analysis and write up of our research. Emily carried out brilliant thematic and content analysis on four of our magazines – BBC, Midland Bank, British Rail and the Post Office from the Second World […]
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How are institutions able to change? If institutional structures which create recursive and taken for granted social structures – from dining to families to society to politics to working and way beyond – are so embedded in our social behaviour, how are we able to alter them? If we are trapped, as DiMaggio and Powell
Academic outputs February was a very successful month for the project in terms of academic outputs. We had submitted two papers to major 4* global academic journals and were given a revise and resubmission (R&R) for both of these. For non-academic colleagues, this means that we have been asked to make revisions to the articles
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Our source of the month for February is the minutes of a meeting to discuss terms of reference for a Communications Audit/Study held at the Midland Bank in 1983. The Midland Bank had been active in the development of internal communication (IC) since the early 1960s and was a pioneer in its development. We have
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Outreach and engagement Apologies for our belated research blog and source of the month. We will be resuming monthly features with the recruitment of Dr Emily Rees on the project as our new research fellow. Emily has been working hard on the project over the last three months. She has updated our website and made
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September was a very busy and productive month for the project. We interviewed applicants for the research fellowship position which had been vacated by Joe and had some outstanding candidates. We would like to thank Dr Gillian Forster, Associate Professor in Organization Studies and Director of Education for Postgraduate Programmes in the Marketing Operations and
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It is with great regret that we have to inform you that Dr Joe Chick, our research fellow and valued colleague, left the research project at the end of August. Joe left to join the University of Leicester. He will be joining the School of Archeology and Ancient History where he will be working on
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