Collaborative Masterclass: Evidence Based Working

How Can a Better Evidence-Based Approach Support Local Government to Meet its Challenges? Rob Brinan, a Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Business and Management. will be joining us to explore what we know in relation to how local government responds to situations, and how a more evidence-based approach may improve practice

Aims/ Objectives

• Understand what evidence-based practice is
• Explore some of the best forms of available evidence
• Understand how to ensure an evidence-based culture and processes, and what benefits this could offer.
• Learn from local case studies

Speakers:

Rob Briner

Rob Briner is Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Business and Management. He conducts research into several areas of organizational psychology and HR such as work and well-being, the psychological contract, work-nonwork relationships and ethnicity. In addition, he is very active in developing evidence-based practice in management, HR and organizational psychology.

His first degree was in psychology and philosophy (University of Hull) followed by a MSc by thesis about the theory and evidence for the relationship between stress and illness (Durham University). He completed his PhD at the MRC/ESRC Social and Applied Psychology Unit (now The Institute of Work Psychology) at the University of Sheffield.

Before moving to the University of Bath in 2011 he worked for 20 years in the Department of Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London where he also served as Director of the PhD Programme, Director of Research and Head of School.

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