Employee Wellbeing Post-Pandemic: The Verdict

This final event completes our series on Employee Wellbeing Post-Pandemic: Seizing the Opportunity, facilitated by King's College London and in partnership with the Ministry of Defence and the University of East Anglia.

For the finale, we welcome back all the academic and practitioner speakers to  participate in a live "Q&A" discussion on how employers and academics can work together to enhance and sustain employee wellbeing through a post-pandemic period, capitalising on what we have learned so far, but also identifying what challenges still need to be overcome.

We have a set of questions prepared but will look to the audience to ask questions for our panel of experts too. 

Sara Connolly is a Professor of Personnel Economics in Norwich Business School at UEA. She was part of the What Works Wellbeing Evidence Programme for Work and Wellbeing and is now a part of the team at UEA working with RAND Europe exploring 'Practices and Combinations of Practices for Health and Wellbeing at Work’. Her research interests are in gender and the labour market.

Gail Kinman is Visiting Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at Birkbeck University of London. Gail is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Academy of Social Sciences and has recently been appointed to the Board of the Council for Work and Health. She is currently working with Public Health England, the Society of Occupational Medicine, and the British Psychological Society to formulate guidelines to help organisations and individuals manage the demands posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.

Kim Hoque is Professor of Human Resource Management at Warwick Business School and Director of Warwick Business School’s Industrial Relations Research Unit. He co-provides the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability and is a founder member of Disability@Work. In 2020 he was appointed to the Centre for Social Justice’s Disability Commission. He researches and teaches in the areas of disability, equalities, and human resource management.

Stephen Wood is Professor of Management at the University of Leicester, a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Science and Academic Fellow of the CIPD. Stephen’s research has focused on the impact of high involvement management on organizations and workers, family-friendly management, pay systems, job design and flexible working. Currently, he is conducting a longitudinal study of homeworking during COVID-19 and a Leverhulme-funded project comparing collective and individual performance-related pay systems.

Chief Inspector Steve Kerridge has been a Police Officer in Cambridgeshire for over twenty years, undertaking a wide variety of roles. He is currently leading the Constabulary’s “Agile Working” programme, following on from his role as Covid-19 Head of Recovery and Learning. Steve has a master’s degree in Leadership and Management from the University of Leicester and is a CMI Chartered Manager.

Michael Clinton is a Professor in Work and Psychology and Human Resource Management at King's Business School and Programme Director of the Business Management BSc degree. Mike has a broad and eclectic approach to research, but is fundamentally interested in features of work and people that create opportunities for improved and sustainable wellbeing and effectiveness. His recent published work has focused on vocational callings and their role in the daily experience of work, and draws on psychological theories about self-determined motivation, self-regulation and recovery. 

Martin Short is the Head of Wellbeing, Diversity and Inclusion for Defence Intelligence (Ministry of Defence) and formerly the Workplace Sector Lead at the What Works Centre for Wellbeing. His primary focus is on how structured, evidence-based approaches to workplace wellbeing can be used to improve outcomes for individuals, teams and organisations.