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Full text linkThis document provides an overview of the conference proceedings from the UFHRD conference,virtually hosted by Sheffield Hallam University on June 8-10th 2022
Coaching and mentoring
Full text linkThis is the Coaching and Mentoring chapter from the UFHRD Conference 2022 proceedingsdocument, published in May 2023
Diversity and Equality Issues in HRD
Full text linkThis is the Diversity and equality issues in HRD chapter from the UFHRD Conference 2022proceedings document, published in May 2023
Leadership Management & Talent Development
Full text linkThis stream comprised a cross section of research from a wide range of contexts – both place andsectors. In this section eight abstracts/papers are presented which highlighted findings to help inform,shape, or evaluate leadership, management or talent management practice
“Fond and Frivolous Gestures”: A Blocking Workshop on Marlowe’s Tamburlaine
Full text linkSince 2012, second-year English and Drama undergraduates at the University of Exeter have had the opportunity to take a course called “Theatrical Cultures”. This option introduces students to plays and entertainments that were popular between the 1580s and the 1640s, with a view to opening an understanding of the period that is deeply informed by theatre history. In this essay, we share and reflect on our teaching of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, which examines the plays as productions by the Lord Admiral’s Men in the Rose playhouse. We start by explaining the learning context for the blocking workshop we use as a practical teaching method. We then share instructions for setting up the workshop and outline our “learning-by-doing” methodology, which involves placing the bodies of our students and the properties necessary to perform a scene within the dimensions of the first Rose stage. The intended learning outcomes of the workshop include a practical understanding of the affordances of the early modern playhouse and the ability to translate this understanding into a critical interpretation of Marlowe’s drama. As students deliver lines, wield swords and crowns, and try to imagine how a chariot navigates the stage space available, they recognise moments of potential bathos and physical comedy in the plays, hinting at those “fond and frivolous gestures” that Marlowe’s publisher, Richard Jones, sought to remove from the 1590 play-text. In the third section of the essay, we evaluate these insights and the workshop’s pedagogical value by sharing reflections by tutors and students who have participated in the blocking workshop
Factors Driving Consumer Adoption of Savings & Investments FinTech Applications in the UK.
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Financial Technology (Fintech) has become a central element of modern financial life, constantly expanding choices, and shifting ways in which individuals consume and interact with financial services (Leong & Sung, 2018). According to the EY Global FinTech Adoption Index, the percentage of FinTech users is increasing, and has increased significantly from 16.0% in 2015 to 33.0% in 2017 (EY, 2017). A follow up study in 2019 showed that fintech adoption and awareness continues to increase and adoption of FinTech services has reached 64% across the globe (EY, 2019). Technology adoption has become a popular area of study within the information systems literature among researchers in a quest to continually understand the various factors that influence individual acceptance and use of emerging technology (Granic & Marangunic, 2019).
In the financial industry, there is evident shifting and switching from traditional financial outlets to more convenient fintech solutions that is driven by changing customer preferences because of advances in technology (Bernardo, 2017). This research aims to establish key drivers of this shift and factors that explain consumers’ adoption and use of fintech solutions. The identification of the drivers of this migration towards fintech not only gives better insight into motivations of this migration to developers but also from a regulatory perspective could help in monitoring the developments in the financial system and stability of it as a whole.
There is limited empirical studies explaining adoption of Fintech in financial services, (Singh, Sahni, & Kovid, 2020). This research focuses on the technology of savings and investments apps and proposes to create a conceptual framework that extends the generalisability of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) (Vankatesh, Morris, Davis, & Davis, 2003) and Self-Efficacy (Bandura, 1986) theories towards evaluating and understanding factors that drive Fintech adoption by integrating financial consumption attributes such as perceived risk, trust and security alongside the core constructs of UTAUT and Self Efficacy theories. These factors are not included in the theories being tested but are highly pertinent to the study of adoption of fintech in a savings and investment context because of the nature of products involved. This is something that fills a gap in knowledge as Vankatesh, Thong & Xu (2016) highlighted it as needing further research after reviewing the UTAUT theory in 2016 from its original version of 2003
ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION OF WOMEN IN LAGOS
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Lagos, the financial hub of Nigeria is home to an estimated 3 million women above the age of 18 years who do not have bank accounts. The Central Bank of Nigeria notes that there are several barriers faced by women in accessing formal bank accounts. Some of these barriers include insufficient mobile money agency networks; lack of national identity means; inadequate digital financial services; untapped opportunities available in microfinance that can serve women and rural people; lack of tailored financial products to meet the needs of the unbanked population; and finally non-digital payments systems, especially G2P and P2G. In addition, reports highlight that a large share of financially excluded women cite religious reasons for not using banks. This study aims to critically investigate the barriers faced by women without bank accounts in Lagos and suggested Islamic banking, an alternative banking institution as a solution. This study will help evaluate the use of Islamic banking tools as a solution to foster financial inclusion for women in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole.
Using a qualitative method, this study surveyed 32 unbanked women in Lagos. The study identified the peculiar barriers to financial inclusion faced by these women who are mainly self-employed and with low levels of education. The barriers to financial inclusion common to women without bank accounts in Lagos are ambiguous account opening documents, lack of acceptable means of identification, long distance of banks and lack of steady source of income. Many of these women also cited religion and marriage as a barrier. This is often reflected in terms of relocation, change of name and switching from formal employment to the cultural home making roles women in this region usually adopt.
The findings of this study provided evidence that unbanked Muslim women in Lagos are aware of Islamic bank’s product offerings and are willing to open account with an Islamic Bank. This agrees with the literature evidence that Islamic finance can improve financial inclusion. However, there are few Islamic bank branches available in Lagos that can solve the long-distance barrier to financial inclusion of these women.
Interestingly, the study discovered that religion is not a significant barrier to financial inclusion of the unbanked women In Lagos, however, religion will play a role in determining their future choice of financial institution
Darren Freebury-Jones, Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival (New York: Routledge, 2022).
Full text linkTeaching Marlowe: Introduction
Full text linkAn introduction to this special issue on Teaching Marlowe