A selective overview of ESRC-A selective overview of ESRC-funded work relating to the NSF funded work relating to the NSF Human & Social Dynamics Human & Social Dynamics ProgramProgram

A selective overview of ESRC-A selective overview of ESRC-funded work relating to the NSF funded work relating to the NSF Human & Social Dynamics Human & Social Dynamics ProgramProgram

Professor Gerard P. Hodgkinson

University of Leeds, UK

ESRC Grants Board Member

Senior Fellow, (UK) ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM)

Presented at the NSF Human & Social Dynamics 2005 Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington, DC, 16th September 2005

Professor Gerard P. Hodgkinson

University of Leeds, UK

ESRC Grants Board Member

Senior Fellow, (UK) ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM)

Presented at the NSF Human & Social Dynamics 2005 Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington, DC, 16th September 2005

Outline

1. Highly selective overview of ongoing ESRC-funded work (mainly across management and psychology)

2. Slightly more focused overview of work in the management and organization studies area (the Advanced Institute of Management Research Initiative)

3. Brief overview of some of my own work

Examples of ESRC-Funded on themes relating to the NSF HSD Program - 1

Research centers (10-15 year investments) and groups (five year investments) located in one institution (Strategic Priorities Board):1. CARR (Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation) –

London School of Economics (investigates risk management and regulation: 1) organizations & risk mgt; 2) business regulation & corporate governance; (3) regulation of government & governance)

2. CSERGE (Centre for Socioeconomic Research on the Global Environment) – University of East Anglia (investigates the causes, consequences and policy implications of global environmental change, including public acceptance of technological change and developing countries’ environmental problems )

Examples of ESRC-Funded on themes relating to the NSF HSD Program - 2

Responsive mode grants (Grants Board awards)

1. Internal working models and young children’s social-emotional development (Dr E Meins, University of Durham)

2. The impact of early language experience on later speech perception (Dr JS Bowers, University of Bristol)

3. Modelling the evolution of the aerospace supply chain (Prof Keith Ridgway, University of Sheffield)

4. Effects of social identity on responses to emergency mass evacuation (Dr J Drury, University of Sussex)

AIM has a budget of £20 million – £18M from the ESRC and £2M from the EPSRC – making AIM the UK’s largest investment in management research.

Management Research Forum

Series

AIM Fellows and Scholars – currently 43 of the UK’s leading

academics drawn from 23 universities

Portal Infrastructure to facilitate collaboration

What is AIM?

CENTRAL THEMES• Productivity• Innovation• Promising Practices

International Fellowship

Arrangements

Why was AIM Established?

The UK GovernmentResearch Councils UK

AIM Research

The Practitioner Community

The Management Research Community

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U.K.National Competitiveness

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IndividualInitiative &Entrepreneurship

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A holistic overview of my work

• Basic (i.e. theoretically-driven) applied psychological research at the interface of cognitive and industrial, work and organizational psychology (see, e.g., Hodgkinson, 2003, Special issue of Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology)

• Two major aspects:– Development and evaluation of methods to operationalize the

notion of mental representations in organizational research (e.g. Clarkson & Hodgkinson, 2005; Hodgkinson et al, 2004, Organizational Research Methods)

– Applications of such methods for the advancement of fundamental knowledge and intervention (e.g. Hodgkinson et al., 1999, Strategic Management Journal)

Overview of 4 selected projects

• Images of Competitive Space (Hodgkinson, 2005)

• Investigation of scenario planning workshops (Hodgkinson, Chattopadhyay & Healey)

• Mental representations of information and IT risks (Coles & Hodgkinson)

• In Search of Strategic Knowledge (Clarke, Hodgkinson & Pruyne)