Insight Media - Online Newsroom

School for Business and Society, University of York

Yorkshire investment company offers local students the chance to test their ideas in real life

The University of York is teaming up with Mole Valley Asset Management (MVAM) – an advice and asset management company famous for running a portfolio consisting only of firms from Yorkshire – to offer marketing students an incredible chance to put their skills to the tes...

10 January 2023

New year, new rules: The trick that top CEOs use to make their rules stick

A new study has examined how top CEOs summarise the wisdom of their experiences into simple rules that act as powerful tools for managing and leading, providing a blueprint for those looking to provide a fresh and concise approach to leadership in the new year.

12 December 2022

‘We are all born naked, and the rest is drag’: How RuPaul’s Drag Race ‘spectacularises’ LGBTQ+ stigma

Researchers have spent months analysing more than a million tweets, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, and countless items of user-generated content in an attempt to discover what makes RuPaul’s Drag Race such a success.

10 November 2022

School for Business and Society, University of York

Post-Brexit visa systems investigated by modern slavery prevention group

A consortium of universities and NGOs is investigating whether post-Brexit visas introduced to address labour shortages in agriculture and care have left people vulnerable to exploitation and modern slavery.

7 November 2022

Boys will be boys – stigmatised firms given social licence to pollute

Businesses stigmatised as “sinful” or “dirty”, like tobacco and oil, have nothing to lose from greenwashing, a new study finds.

3 November 2022

School for Business and Society, University of York

Strengthening ties abroad: University of York sends delegations to Korea and Thailand

Earlier this summer, delegations from the University of York School for Business and Society travelled to Korea and Thailand to strengthen ties that have been forged over decades, helping to encourage cooperation around health, social security, and criminal justice. We s...

4 October 2022

School for Business and Society, University of York

Does openness about sexual orientation increase risk of bullying in the workplace?

The first dedicated study to explore the influence of sexual orientation on the experience of workplace bullying has found that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) employees were 1.34 times more likely to be bullied. Moreover, not being open about their sexual orientation el...

27 September 2022

School for Business and Society, University of York

How can organisations contribute to a more sustainable future?

The many grand challenges that society faces – hunger, inequality, the cost of living, and, more recently, climate change – will require public and private organisations to act and organise themselves in new and harmonious ways to solve them.

1 September 2022

School for Business and Society, University of York

Why do Black, Asian and minority ethnic background solicitors receive a larger proportion of complaints than their white colleagues?

The School for Business and Society of the University of York is working with the Universities of Cardiff and Lancaster to conduct a new study to examine why there is overrepresentation of those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in reports made to the Sol...

4 August 2022

School for Business and Society, University of York

Experts criticise UK government’s “piecemeal” food strategy

A group of academics have strongly criticised the UK government’s food strategy in a letter published in Nature, saying it falls far short on the measures and urgency required to address the challenges of climate change and food-related diseases.

20 July 2022