Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in People, Work and Organisations

University of the West of Scotland

People, Work & Organisations Research Research in the field of people, work and organisations, and human resources (HR) focuses, broadly, on the bridge between people strategy and business strategy which will help enable responsible and sustainable success in private, public and third sector organisations. Our research activities are focused on contributing to impact on ethical and environmental challenges that organisations face. Our HR research helps ask the necessary questions and positively contribute to an evidence-based, systemic, critical, and comparative body of knowledge. Our research ethos is to focus on research projects with impact; projects that having a genuine, real-world influence both at an organisational and policy level. People, work and organisations or HR research helps organisations change and respond to established and emerging challenges; with overarching missions, and leaders better able to engage with multi-facetted disruption. Overarching missions include but are not restricted to: creating new systems and models of social care; progressing equality and diversity; changing organisation cultures. We can supervise research across a wide spectrum of HR themes be they locally, nationally or globally based. Our research is grounded in both the challenges and opportunities of changing business environments, organisational processes, collaborations, and partnerships as well as work and employment systems.