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New Podcast! In the latest Evolve Workplace Wellbeing podcast, Dr Helen Fitzhugh is in conversation with Nigel Lloyd, a Senior Research Fellow within the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funded Public Health Intervention Responsiveness Studies Team (PHIRST) at the University of Hertfordshire. Nigel has been working on a project exploring take-up of local authority […]

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – May 2025 Happy third anniversary to Evolve! Call for evidence – Creating Healthy Jobs We are reviewing frameworks that outline the features of jobs that promote health and/or prevent ill-health. These can include frameworks for decent work/fair work. This review is part of the ‘Creating Healthy Jobs’

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – April 2025 If you have been subscribing at least since January of this year, you will know we have been waiting with bated breath for the opportunity to tell you about some great new developments at Evolve. Like busses, the opportunities to make public announcements have all

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter for March 2025 What do we know about ‘learning & development’ and wellbeing? Dr Helen Fitzhugh and Professor Kevin Daniels, from our Evolve team, prepared a rapid review report for Government Skills on the nature of the relationship between L&D and employee engagement, wellbeing, attraction and retention. It

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – February 2025 New podcast – Line management matters, so ease the squeeze! In the latest episode of our regular Evolve podcast, Professor Sara Connolly of the University of Leicester speaks with Dr Zofia Bajorek – Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies – about the

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – January 2025 What will 2025 bring for Evolve? The Evolve Workplace Wellbeing toolkit launched in May 2022. As we progress towards our 3rd birthday in May 2025, we have big plans for new research and knowledge exchange activities – but we can’t tell you about them yet!

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – December 2024 Skills for resilience – at individual and organisational level In this podcast, Professor Kevin Daniels speaks with Chris Tamdjidi, MD and business development director of Awaris, a multinational company that aims to strengthen the mental, emotional, and collaborative capabilities of people in companies. Kevin and

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – November 2024 New podcast on doing real world impactful work on wellbeing In this episode of the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing podcast, Dr Helen Fitzhugh of the University of East Anglia speaks with Dr Balissa Greene, an occupational psychologist working in Accenture’s Leadership and Culture practice. Balissa has

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – October 2024 Six dilemmas of workplace wellbeing – new research findings Do you believe workplace wellbeing can ever be taken too far? Dr Helen Fitzhugh and Andrea James (University of East Anglia) asked this question of 25 managers from UK-based public, private and charitable organisations. This article

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – September 2024 Apologies for the slightly early September email. We’re not wishing the summer away here, but various commitments mean that if this doesn’t go out now, it won’t go out until late September! As usual, pass this on to anyone who you think might find it