Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole, based in the School of Education, is part of a team that have been awarded £1.8m by NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) to deliver a pioneering 3 year study into the potential of job crafting to support workers with disabilities and health conditions to thrive in their workplaces.
The three-year project offers the potential for major contributions to evidence and policy making around the key UK challenge of enabling a healthier, happier & more productive workforce.
The project is lead by Adam Whitworth, Strathclyde Business School with a brilliant research team from across the universities of Strathclyde, UEA, King's, Leicester, Oxford, Sheffield & Westminster and disabled people's organisations incl Speakup Self Advocacy, Breakthrough UK, Disability Rights UK, Inclusion Scotland & Business Disability Forum
Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole said, "I am really looking forward to working with colleagues to explore the potential of job crafting to improve the working lives of disabled people. This much needed and timely research builds on the on-going wider critical disability studies, health and social care research in the School of Education and the Faculty."
