Adam Smith Business School

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• 23 May

  How business angels learn could predict the outcome of a pitch

  Start-up entrepreneurs pitching for their first round of investment might do well to find out a bit more about their potential angel’s willingness to learn.
• 19 May

  Launch of serious educational game aims to raise number of living wage employers

  Currently, 1.6m workers in the UK are not receiving a living wage. Research by academics at University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School and University of Edinburgh Business School has revealed that when employees pay a living wage it improves a worker’s physical and mental health and brings benefits to their employing organisation, their family and society, as well as being an important means of resilience to them all, especially post–pandemic.
• 06 May

  Improving the experience of witnesses in health and care practice proceedings

  The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has awarded researchers from The University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, The Open University (OU), Manchester Metropolitan University, and the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh more than £141,000 to expand their world-first study of witnesses’ experience of giving evidence during health and social care workers’ professional conduct hearings.