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In a world where economic inequality seems insurmountable, one might wonder if simple, unpaid acts of kindness can make a difference. A recent study by Sessions and Zangelidis (2024) suggests that they can—and highlights the significant role women play in this effort.
The Motivation: What Drives Volunteering?
On April 24, 2024, the global community marks the 11th anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy. The Rana Plaza, an eight-story structure that accommodated five garment factories with more than 5,000 workers, collapsed on April 24, 2013. The incident left the deaths of 1,132 workers and injured more than 2,500…
In the blog article I wrote a while ago, I reflected on the challenges in work-life balance as a result of the first Covid lock down as an academic and also as a parent of young children. Since then, we had another lockdown after Christmas 2020, and the memory of…
At the end of 2019 I was nominated by my department to the Women in Property National Student Award Programme 2020. One third year student from a built environment course is nominated by their respective university annually based on their performance and talent. Each regional winner goes on to…
It’s been 6 months since the UK March lockdown, and our home has been my place for work since then. The study is now invaded by textbooks and papers that used to be in my university office and smells like an old library, but I find it rather a relaxing…
This blog was written by Professor Aziz Islam for The Conversation, you can read the original article here.
Over the past three decades, global inequality has reached a critical level. The world’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%. Multinational fashion companies have secured billions of dollars by…
Ongoing developments in computer and communication technology, combined with worker’s rights to request flexible working, mean that opportunities to work remote from a fixed office base are becoming increasingly significant for a growing number of workers. The recently published CIPD report on Megatrends in Flexible Working provides some interesting insights…
Voltaire has observed that “so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping…
Economists oversimplify the ‘real world’. I teach my students about the concept of ‘ceteris paribus’ – the idea that when looking at an economic relationship, we assume all other things equal. While useful in thinking about economic models, it does not help much in modelling ‘real world’ complexity. This, then,…
My name is Sarah Sophie Reick and I am currently in my final semester of my undergraduate degree in Business Management and Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. I joined the Athena SWAN committee nearly two years ago upon entering my third-year, and I have experienced joy and empowerment through…
