The pandemic disrupted leaders on every level. It forced them to re-examine their assumptions about their organisation’s purpose and place in society. It impacted their perceptions and their actions around responsible business, and their leadership attitudes and practices.

The worst of the pandemic is now firmly behind us – although we remain in the depths of an economic and cost-of-living crisis, with the war in Ukraine ongoing. In this first episode, Veronica and Katie are joined by Andrea Winfield, general manager for HR across the western Europe region for Microsoft, to explore what being a responsible business means in a post-pandemic world.

Find out more: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/campaigns/responsible-business/

Modern life can feel like one of constant crisis, through exposure on social media feeds, local news or even your personal life. Recovering from the physical and emotional toll of these is hard, but also essential.

Doctor Sara Spowart from the University of South Florida, is a researcher specialising in the psychology of support around survival. Her framework of integrative happiness sets out a vital tool for all those affected by trauma to find happiness and stability in their lives again.

Read her original work at : https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107413

This interview includes discussion of war, natural disasters, poverty, assault and the pandemic. Listener discretion is advised.

While data science can transform public sector policy-making, places like Lebanon lack the data infrastructure and governance rules needed to support public sector data analysis.

Professor Lama Moussawi and Raghda Kawass at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut, examine how Lebanon can promote data analytics to improve policy-making and service delivery.

Read more in Research Features

Read the original research: doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2017.1313045