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PRME Chapter UK and Ireland Research Seed Funding Competition 2025/26Announcement of Prize-Winners

  • aegan25
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The PRME Chapter UK and Ireland are excited to announce the winners of the 2025/26 Research Seed Funding Competition. Professor Georgina Gough, competition coordinator, noted the interesting range of research outlined in the applications. These included:


  • Environmental impact: Biodiversity, sustainable systems, and responsible resource use;

  • Inequality: Decolonialism, gender, health, and workforce experiences;

  • Skills and competences: AI and digital, ethics, workforce, critical thinking;

  • Educational methods: Simulations, curriculum design; and,

  • Business practices, innovation ecosystems, and corporate responsibility.


 

The projects which were successfully funded cover contexts including workforce wellbeing, corporate governance, behaviour change, AI and the innovation/inequality interface. A diverse range of research methods is represented in the funded projects, including Rawlsian analysis, international case study comparison, documentary analysis and interviews. The outputs to be generated by the funded projects include practitioner toolkits, academic publications, a sector report and a networking event.

 

The Chapter would like to acknowledge the support of the wider PRME community in encouraging and facilitating research which promotes the values and ambitions of responsible management education and of the UN Global Compact and SDGs more broadly. The research seed funding competition aims to further support such endeavours, whilst also being one of the many tangible benefits to members of being a voting member of the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter.


Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Chapter Chair, shared the following on the outcome: As Chair, I am delighted to see the quality and range of this year's Research Seed Funding competition winners. Our winners are working at the cutting edge of social and environmental issues that underpin contemporary and impactful responsible management research. I congratulate the winners and their institutions and look forward to following their progress and hearing more about each project as it develops.”.


We look forward to seeing the outputs of the funded projects presented at the annual PRME conference in either 2026 or 2027. The following projects were awarded funding:


Benish Khan                  York St John University                        

Menopause in Higher Education: Bridging the gap between policy and practice


Dewan Muktadir-Al-Mukit     Sheffield Hallam University   

Strengthening Corporate Governance Oversight for Biodiversity Risk Management: From Adversity to Policy Action


Meryem Akin                Bath Spa University                  

Behaviour Change Lab in-a-Box: A Portable Intervention Design Kit for Sustainable Consumption & Responsible Marketing


Patryck Makowski       University of Limerick             

Artificial Intelligence at Work and Turnover Intentions: A Two-Wave Cross-Country Panel Study in Retail Sector


Yan Zeng                        UWE Bristol                                

When Is Innovation-Driven Inequality Just? A Rawlsian Analysis of Inclusive Growth in Emerging Economies



Alongside the winning projects, it was fantastic to see a breadth of submissions from across the UK & Ireland. With Participating Institutions all listed below:

 

Arden University (Coventry)

Bath Spa University

Lancaster University

Manchester Metropolitan University

Newcastle University

Northumbria University

Sheffield Hallam University

University of Birmingham

University of Bath

University of Greenwich

University of Kent

University of Limerick

University of Salford

UWE Bristol

York St John University

 

Judging Panel

The Chapter is most appreciative of the time and efforts of our volunteer judges, all members of the UK and Ireland Chapter Steering Group:

Prof Georgina Gough UWE Bristol

Dr Mohamed Saeudy University of Bedfordshire

Dr Rachel Welton Nottingham Trent University

Dr Sarah Williams Liverpool John Moores University

Dr Soheil Davari University of Bath

 

Further information

  • Any enquiries about the results can be directed to Georgina.Gough@uwe.ac.uk 

  • Competition winners have already been contacted individually about their prize.

  • Please copy any local publicity about the prize-winners to the Chapter’s Linkedin page.

  • For more information about the PRME Chapter UK and Ireland see: https://www.unprme.org.uk/

 

 
 
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