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Thing-ification: Why the Human Face of Work Needs to be Brought Back In

Eugene Wei/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Stephanie Russell, Anglia Ruskin University At work, do you feel like a disposable financial asset, or part of a family; a cog in the machine, or a human being on a team? How your company treats you can have a huge effect on your well-being and the success of the firm. The novelist Terry Pratchett wrote that “evil begins when you begin to treat people as things”. Continue reading →

Is this the Most Secure Coin in the World?

Royal MintRichard Farmer, University of East Anglia Although people are becoming increasingly reliant on electronic forms of financial transaction, the introduction of a new coin still feels like an important occasion. The new £1 coin, which enters circulation on March 28, is described by the Royal Mint as “the most secure coin in the world”. It is likely to be controversial. Continue reading →

Autumn Statement 2016

The Chancellor of the Exchquer give his Autumn update to the house, the first after the UKs decision to leave the European Union. https://storify. Continue reading →

The Unofficial First Year Guide

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Opinion: The Airports Saga, Enough is Enough

Plaguing successive governments since the 1950s, the question of airport capacity in the South-East of England most brilliantly showcases the utter lack of modern British infrastructure planning and resolve. Let there be no doubt, this is a blatant political choice, and one that has cost us dearly. Continue reading →

A Welcome from the Editor

I’d like to personally welcome all of our new colleagues joining us this week at the University of Southampton, especially those who are joining us in the Business School! I’d like to take this chance to introduce you to the Studying Business at Southampton Blog, where everyone will have a chance, and be actively encouraged, to contribute to. The blog was started last year, as an initiative of the Business Programmes Co-Design Group and, as such, has a large student focus. Continue reading →

Our Top 10 Tips to Make the Most of Your SBS Course!

We thought it might be helpful to you if we gave you our top ten pieces of advice to make the most of your first year! These are a mixture of course-related and extra-curricular related things. 1. Go to the Bunflight (on the 28th of September) during freshers week and get involved! It is the single best event to see the whole breadth of what societies and clubs the university hosts. Continue reading →

The Brexit Interview: Matt Cowley

An exciting multi-media EU piece today! Matt Cowley of Students Britain Southampton. Matt is a Brexit campaigner, who is also a politics student here at the University. We asked him for an interview and he kindly agreed. So on Thursday, we sat to down ask him some questions about the EU, and why he feels the way he does. Let us know if you agree or disagree with Matt. Continue reading →

Opinion: My Ah-Ha! Moment – Linking Anarchism to Business

I often feel that so much of my learning of theoretical and abstract concepts is retrospective and after true reflection. Considering myself of a more mathematical and practical mindset, I find this, while sometimes challenging, occasionally annoying due to there, often times, not being an agreed upon answer; it’s philosophical, not physical. Continue reading →

The European Question: Southampton Decides

As referendum fever holds the nation in anticipation for June 23rd, PublicPolicy@Southampton held, what can only be described, as a very informed and heated debate about the European question. With a packed audience of students, academics and local residents in The Cube, Dr. Alan Whitehead MP, Labour MP for Southampton Test and James Edwards, representing Students for Europe shared the ‘Remain’ platform. Continue reading →

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