Dr Hilary Lowe

Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges (2024)
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The UK is experiencing a persistent skills gap which has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. One factor that contributes toward the skill gap is university students graduating, but not being equipped with the necessary employability skills to meet gra... Read More about Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges.

Conceptualising older women’s wellbeing at work across the life course (2023)
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The European Research Network: Older Women’s Workplace Wellbeing was was founded in 2021 at the University of Salford, bringing together a diverse group of European female researchers with shared interests in older women, ageing, demographic change... Read More about Conceptualising older women’s wellbeing at work across the life course.

Human resource management students – but no HR analytics? Modifying the traditional masters dissertation to accommodate students struggling with data (2023)
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This developmental paper outlines how the Human Resource Management (HRM) module team on a master’s degree programme at a UK University are attempting to shape the curriculum to encourage HRM students to work with data. This is in direct response to... Read More about Human resource management students – but no HR analytics? Modifying the traditional masters dissertation to accommodate students struggling with data.

Sequential mixed methods research: Non-compliance in apprentice pay with owls (2021)
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Within mixed methods literature, the relationship between qualitative and quantitative data collection is ubiquitously presented as sequential. Thus, the most followed approach is for the first stage of data collection to follow the second, or to run... Read More about Sequential mixed methods research: Non-compliance in apprentice pay with owls.

Not just arms and legs: Student working and the local labour market (2019)
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Non-compliance in the hairdressing and childcare sectors: A qualitative study of apprentice pay (2016)
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This paper presents some of the qualitative findings from some wider research undertaken for the Low Pay Commission on non-compliance in apprenticeship pay in the hairdressing and childcare sectors. Interviews with over seventy respondents, including... Read More about Non-compliance in the hairdressing and childcare sectors: A qualitative study of apprentice pay.

Therapeutin oder spionin? Qualitative interviews with German senior managers (2014)
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Despite the fact that qualitative interviews are reputed to be an effective method of obtaining data from organizational elites, studies are concurrent on a number of obstacles which surround the interviewing of senior management. Problem areas flagg... Read More about Therapeutin oder spionin? Qualitative interviews with German senior managers.

How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS. (2013)
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The paper highlights the successful role played by knowledge brokers in bridging the gap between research and policy development. Drawing on the work of Oldham and McLean (1997) on the role of knowledge brokers, the paper identifies that intermediari... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS..

Ageing workforces: An empirical study of German industrial three sectors (2013)
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The following paper presents empirical data from medium-large sized companies in Germany, in order to examine the challenges of managing demographic change from an organisational perspective. The findings are consistent with the literature on demogra... Read More about Ageing workforces: An empirical study of German industrial three sectors.

Managing demographic developments in German organisations – challenges, measures & practices (2010)
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Managing the ageing workforce - challenges, measures & practices in a German context (2010)
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