The Applied Research Conference (ARC) is an annual meeting place for academic researchers and practitioners working in people management, employment policy and related fields. It holds a unique place in bringing together these two communities to hear about cutting edge research in HR and discuss how it can be applied in practice.  

ARC is an interdisciplinary conference that covers a wide range of aspects of people management, employment, learning and development and organisational development. In all areas covered, we set out to discuss the practical application of research insights to organisational life and labour markets.

The 7th CIPD Applied Research Conference took place online from 26-27 January 2022.

Conference papers

The 2022 conference  papers are available to download below. 

Transforming uncertainty from a negative to a positive: assessing a novel intervention designed to increase uncertainty tolerance in individuals and teams

Authors: 
Dr Avri Bilovich, Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London
Sam Conniff, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London
Stephen H Dewitt, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London
Katherine Templar-Lewis, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London

Transforming uncertainty from a negative to a positive: assessing a novel intervention designed to increase uncertainty tolerance in individuals and teams

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Part-time working: the impact of the ‘enforced experiment’ of flexible furlough

Authors: 
Dr Charlotte Gascoigne, Cranfield University
Clare Kelliher, Cranfield University
Pierre Walthery, Centre for Time Use Research

Part-time working: the impact of the ‘enforced experiment’ of flexible furlough

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Developing a collective agile mindset while developing agile line managers

Authors: 
Dr Liz Rivers, Chartered FCIPD  |  Sarah Acton, Chartered FCIPD
Manchester Metropolitan University

Developing a collective agile mindset while developing agile line managers

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Building job-related ownership in early career professionals: psychological ownership in the workplace

Authors: 
Deborah Taylor  |  Dr Lois Farquharson
Bournemouth University Business School
Professor Adele Ladkin, Bournemouth University

Building job-related ownership in early career professionals: psychological ownership in the workplace

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A netnographic study exploring the impact of consecutive redundancy programmes on employee exhaustion, cynicism and organisational detachment

Author: 
Dr Madeleine Stevens, Liverpool John Moores University

A netnographic study exploring the impact of consecutive redundancy programmes on employee exhaustion, cynicism and organisational detachment

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Iron fists in velvet gloves: Exploring female leaders’ experiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

Author: 
Dr Eleni Meletiadou, London Metropolitan University

Iron fists in velvet gloves: Exploring female leaders’ experiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

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Conference submissions

This conference proceedings contains the accepted submissions for the ARC 2022 research papers. The papers are grouped into 11 thematic streams and are presented in the order in which they appear in the programme.

Applied Research Conference submissions 2022

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