How do we protect the weakest?
Dr Martin Schleper discusses the challenges of managing modern slavery risks in supply chains during COVID-19.
Previous articles
Read the articles from our previous editions of the research review.
2020-21
In depth
Hopes and fears
Dr Mari Martiskainen examines the emotions and motivations of climate strikers
Tipping the scales between work and home life
Dr Steven Brieger explores how job autonomy can help female entrepreneurs find a good work-life balance.
The green power of climate finance
Professor Radu Tunaru and Dr Panagiotis Tzouvanas discuss the environmental impact of climate finance.
The economics of crime
How can an economist disrupt criminal operations? Dr Rocco d’Este explains.
Entrepreneurs and ADHD: is it a help or a hindrance?
Professor Vasiliki Bamiatzi investigates how Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder affects entrepreneurial performance.
2019-20
Pandemics, Pandemonium and Panaceas
COVID-19 is perhaps the most significant science policy issue of our time.
Researchers at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) have examined critical issues surrounding diagnostic technologies, vaccines and therapeutics, and response paradigms.
The UK Productivity Slowdown
Professor Nicholas Crafts explains why the current downturn in UK productivity growth is unprecedented.
Well-being at work and home-working
Drs Emma Russell and Chidiebere Ogbonnaya explore the expanding role of remote working.
Held to account
Dr Galina Gonacharenko on how to make organisations more accountable for workplace abuse.
Improving the delivery of major UK infrastructure
Project X investigates how project delivery can be improved and how this can be translated into delivering government policy.
Transformative Innovation and the SDGs
How can Science, Technology and Innovation Policy help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Back on track: exploring the vinyl revival
Professor Michael Beverland considers the resurgence in ‘legacy technologies’.
2018-19
"Not just hipsters in skinny jeans drinking flat whites"
Dr Josh Siepel explodes the stereotype of the creative industries.
Crypto assets – the currency of Fintech
Professor Carol Alexander outlines a new course in this emerging area.
After shock
Michael Gasiorek explains how economic models can help predict the Brexit winners and losers.
Households hold the keys to our low-carbon future
Benjamin Sovacool explores how families could be guided to reduce their emissions.
In defence of recognition
Dr Natasha Slutskaya lifts the lid on the bin-workers of London.
Climbing up versus climbing down the institutional ladder
Dr Palitha Konara and Dr Vikrant Shirodkar research multinational challenges.