The key mission of the Social Impact Leadership and Management research group is to undertake high quality impactful research that addresses major challenges and provides solutions that lie beyond the capacity of governments or markets alone.  Members of the group range from early career researchers to more experienced academics, all with a passion for research and a desire to make a difference through scholarly and research activity, both theoretical and applied in nature.

The group undertakes research that demonstrates social impact, inspires people and organisations, including leaders and managers to meet challenges with fresh solutions.

The group is both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary with members aligned to several themes as noted in the section below.

RESEARCH THEMES

Social Impact is concerned with the goals of empowering, improving equality and wellbeing promotion, through key actors in organisations, work and employment. Understanding and enabling the Social Impact journey is a growing and integral part of the Leadership and Management of a wide range of businesses, organisations, institutions, sectors and labour/professional and community groups. 

Leadership and Management embodying and delivering social impact are key enablers, in organisations, work and employment, along with governments and communities, of ultimately achieving fairer, wealthier, sustainable and dynamic organisations, economies and societies.

All disciplines in business and management have a role to play in the analysis and enabling of empowering, equality-oriented and wellbeing promotion, and advancing effective, ethical and environmentally responsible and sustainable approaches in the private, public and third sectors. Together we can generate an evidence-based, systemic, critical and internationally comparative body of knowledge.

Those who get the development of empowering, equality-oriented and wellbeing promotion, right, locally and globally, will be best positioned to meet the challenges and opportunities we are encountering. These will thrive through changing work and employment systems, business environments, organisational processes, collaborations and partnerships.   The most prominent and shared goal of the SILM group is culture change for fairer, wealthier, dynamic wellbeing economies and thriving societies at the levels of organisations, sectors and countries.

We currently have staff and research students active and publishing and developing impact in projects. The following are prominent research themes/clusters within the group:

  • Equality, diversity and inclusion in the context of employment and service delivery – contact Professor Mohammed Ishaq; mohammed.ishaq@uws.ac.uk
  • Health and social care integration – contact Professor Stephen Gibb; Stephen.gibb@uws.ac.uk
  • Fair work and fulfilling working lives: changing employment, skills and career systems – contact Dr. Aleksandra Webb; Aleksandra.webb@uws.ac.uk
  • The theory and practice of leadership and management – contact TBC
  • Social responsibility and sustainability in organisations – contact TBC

Our research connects with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

  • SDG 8- Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10- Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 3- Good Health and Wellbeing
  • SDG 9- Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 5- Gender Equality
Last updated: 02/10/2025