Research
I am a Senior Research Associate in the Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia.
I currently hold short-term Senior Research Associate positions on the following projects:
Work and Wellbeing Team
This project investigates wellbeing interventions implemented in the workplace. My part of the project looks at the cost effectiveness of various interventions: measuring their impacts on wellbeing and then how this feeds through into productivity gains
Institute for Volunteering Research
This is a collaborative project alongside Network Rail to investigate volunteering in the rail industry. The project aims to better understand the motivations and barriers relating to volunteering. My role has been to design and run a digital survey and analyse the resulting data.
The Norwich Good Economy Project
The aim of this project is to scope and co-produce a participatory approach to improving job quality for those in low-paid employment within Norwich. Interviews and focus groups will be conducted to provide feedback which will inform the production of accessible job-quality overview resources and potential light-touch interventions via intermediaries.
My main research focus has been Sports Economics. I am a member of both the European Sports Economics Association (ESEA) and the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE). I have presented my work at a number of conferences including the ESEA conferences in Paderborn, Germany and Liverpool, England; the Southern Economic Association conference in Tampa, Florida; and the Western Economic Association conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
My thesis analysed how the distribution of wages and nationalities within teams affects performance, through the avenues of cooperation and conflict. The general findings in both regards are that dispersion/variety has positive effects on performance, but this is limited by polarisation in these dimensions. I believe this general finding applies to many other situations as a behavioural reaction to diversity/differences between economic agents. In future research I would like to investigate the general applicability of these findings outside of the sports industry and whether it applies in other dimensions such as political and religious views and other such identities that individuals may hold.