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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
Nick is Managing Director of Corporate Agenda an advice and
consultancy business working with clients across the private, voluntary and
public sectors. Until autumn of 2008 he was Director of Advocacy at The Work
Foundation and remains an Associate adviser. He is also a Fellow of the Smith
Institute. He worked as an advisor to the high level group that re-drafted the
European Union’s Lisbon strategy in 2005 under the chairmanship of former Dutch
premier Wim Kok.
He has written and spoken on a wide range of public policy
issues connected to the economy, including European affairs, the labour market,
organisational performance, leadership, welfare reform, finance, corporate
governance and CSR. He has contributed and placed articles and comment in a
wide range of media (including front page pieces) in the Financial Times, in
the Economist, on all major broadcast news bulletins, The Guardian, The Times,
Daily Telegraph, Independent and all the main Sunday papers as well as many
specialist and regional media.
Before working at The Work Foundation Nick ran his own public affairs and communications consultancy. This followed a period working at the labour market think tank The Employment Policy Institute which created much of the intellectual underpinning to enable the Government to introduce the New Deals in 1997 and thereafter and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. His recent and current clients include AXA plc, Pearson plc, Tesco plc, Skillset, BIG Lottery, City&Guilds, Working Links, The Work Foundation, Design Council, Demos and BT, Universities of Manchester, Southampton, East Anglia and West of England
His recent work includes:
Nick was the general editor of Enterprising Europe (2002) and the author or co-author of several reports including ‘Greening Work’ (2008); The Risk Myth (2006), Life at the Top (2005), Where are the Gaps? (2005), Cracking the Performance Code (2005), The Joy of Work (2004) and Achieving High Performance through CSR (2004). His new book The Good Work Guide was published in 2010.
He is a Trustee of Communities into Training and Employment (CITE) and a trustee of Time 2 Talk. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Innovation at the University of Bedford, Associate of The Work Foundation and Fellow of The Smith Institute. He is also a Guest Lecturer at Nottingham University Business School.
