Dr Emma Thirkell

Assistant Prof HRM 🎓 | Coffee addict ☕️ | Travel lover 🌍 | Finnish learner 🇫🇮 | Digital Skills advocate 💻 | ✨️ SFHEA | All views are my own 🤓.

[Dr Emma Thirkell @EmmaThirkell]

If you'd like to know more about how OneNote Escape Rooms can help in the teaching of business and management students, @CharteredABS have just published my blog post about my @OneNoteEDU HRM Escape Room. Check it out 😀 https://t.co/hHL839zzGu

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In Manchester for the @CIPD ACE.

A very early start from Newcastle, but our Senior People Professionals are excited

[Dale Munday @Dale_Munday]

Thanks to Matt Wittstein and the Limed team @elonuniversity for their invite to discuss #asynchronous and #hybrid #teaching strategies on an upcoming #podcast 🎙️. The episode for 'Teaching with a Twist' should be out in November/December time. 😁https://t.co/4ItQCVh75z

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Now time for the Wellbeing Village - @TheCuddleClubUK Dog therapy.

This is definitely the best form of wellbeing...

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Next up: Beyond 9 to 5 - what is the meaning of work for you?

Loving the idea of Meaning Lab Tools to map meaning at work. A great activity for our Senior People Professional learners to do, to map critical points of meaning in their organisations.

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First session of the day is Navigating the future: The skills agenda and why does it matter? @CIPD

Key takeaway: Only 40% of the workforce intends to upskill in the coming year, despite the widening skills gap, particularly in digital competencies.

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Today I'm at the @CIPD Festival of Work at the London Excel.

Really looking forward to the talks, networking and I hear there may be doggy cuddle therapy....🤔

Excited to bring lots of ideas and info back for our Senior People Professional programme 😀

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It was wonderful to catch up with the lovely @AHappyAcademic today at the BAM MKE conference.

Great presentations, great atmosphere and fantastic people. Always love attending this one.

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Enjoying being at The Shard for the British Academy of Management, MKE Conference.

What a venue for a conference.

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Today, I was delighted to present "Using Escape Rooms in Teaching & Learning" to Birmingham University Business School (thank you @KamSuleymenova for the invite)

I discussed the how, what, and why of using them, as well as ran a very special Bham Uni edition, created using AI

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Lovely afternoon recording for @TheHRCreative with our special guests, @BeadleProf and Dr Sally Wightman.

@DrHelenTracey and I enjoyed hearing about their research on "calling", and why HR should be thinking about it.

Coming soon..

#podcast #learningandteaching #TheHRCreative

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@ChrisONeillHR Massive congratulations, Chris. Lovely photos 🥂

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@RosinaGordon On a fine day, I get to see the Tyne Bridge. Totally agree that a nice view makes it better! I hear you, loudly 🥰

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We were delighted to welcome Kayleigh from CIPD Northern to Northumbria University today.

She met our Senior People Professional learners, heard all about their development+chatted about the northern networks they can get involved in.

Kayleigh is really fabulous! Thank you 👏

[Northumbria Uni @NorthumbriaUni]

We’re thrilled to have achieved huge success in two major league tables released today! @northumbriauni now ranked in the UK top 35 in @compuniguide and the top 100 in the world in @timeshighered Young University Rankings.

https://t.co/uewXaZbF3n

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Looking forward to delivering our research on Innovations in T&L at our Professional Learning & Management Education research group today

Myself and my co-author will be discussing vicious and virtuous cycles, managerialism and inertia in HE institutions...+bagels and donuts 🤭

[David D'Souza @dds180]

Spoke to someone earlier who suggested that there's no need to explain the Kubler-Ross model as a change tool because

"Taylor Swift songs cover it all"

I'm still coming to terms with that idea. There's a lot going on.

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Fantastic research day at the Uni of York, my alma mater, meeting up with my collaborator Tina.

She indulged me and let me re-live memories from the early 2000s.

20yrs have passed. York has changed. But, actually, it's still the same 🥰♥️ The spaceship is still standing 🤣🤣

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@ian_c_elliott I do this with Newcastle all the time. Even just 1.5hrs each way is just too far some weeks. But, I can't bear to be living out of hotels, when I did that for 8yrs! 😴😴

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Thrilled to have attended a @CIPD Spring Reception at Parliament yesterday.

Some key opportunities and challenges in the upcoming election, meaning policy forum members have the chance to really make a difference to the future of work.

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@Dale_Munday 🤔 This is literally the conclusion drawn from my sabbatical research! Organisational (or Institutional) inertia is stopping educators being innovative, despite the numerous claims institutions make in Education strategies...