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Research that becomes
your curriculum.

Every paper our faculty publishes is taught the term it appears. Students don't read about the future of HR — they help generate it.

Two disciplines.
One research programme.

The research programme is led by two specialists — Dr. Mallika Sen heading neuroscience and platform learning design, and Kate Busch leading all clinical, educational psychology, and research protocol work.

Dr. Mallika Sen
Neuroscience & Learning Design

Dr. Mallika Sen

Chief Research Officer. MSc Neuroscience (Oxford) · Doctorate, Developmental Psychology (Bristol). Calibrates every scene transition and feedback moment against research on stress inoculation and spatial memory.

Kate Busch
Clinical & Educational Psychology

Kate Busch

HCPC Chartered · AFBPsS · dual Clinical & Educational registration. Designs the full student journey — cognitive load, learning sustainability, trauma-informed care.

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Research streams · live
Updated
Neuroscience14 active
Psychology9 active
Employment Law11 active
Artificial Intelligence7 active
Virtual Reality4 active

What we're working on
this term.

Neuroscience · EEG

Prefrontal load during
algorithmic performance review.

Measuring how managers' brains actually process AI-generated review summaries vs human-authored ones — under time pressure.

LeadDr. Aisha Mensah
Status Data collection · Wk 6 of 12
N72 participants
AI · Audit

Bias detection in
production HR scoring models.

Black-box audit of three commercial CV-screening systems against EU AI Act Annex III. With NeuroPartner Industries.

LeadProf. Lukas Reiter
Status Drafting · pre-submission
N3 vendors · 24k cases
Law · Comparative

Dignity claims after
algorithmic dismissal.

A doctrinal study across 14 jurisdictions of how courts have handled employees terminated wholly or partly by AI systems.

LeadProf. Margaret Holloway QC
Status Peer review
N14 jurisdictions
Psychology · Longitudinal

The cognitive cost of
always-on surveillance.

36-month panel study of 600 knowledge workers measuring sustained attention, sleep, and burnout markers under monitoring regimes.

LeadDr. Yuki Tanaka
Status Year 2 of 3
N600 (236 active)
VR · Methods

Embodied witness testimony
in employment tribunals.

Building the first admissibility framework for VR-reconstructed evidence in UK and EU employment cases.

LeadDr. Marcus Webb
Status Method validation
N40 reconstructed cases
Cross-disciplinary

Deafness, signed law
& the cognitive load of access.

Co-designed with the Deaf community: how do Deaf employees experience workplace dispute processes when interpretation is and isn't provided?

LeadDr. Helena Marchetti
Status Recruitment
Ntarget 120
For Students

Co-publish before you graduate.

Foundation students join a research team in term 2. Professional students lead their own capstone. Executive students publish a board-ready white paper.

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We collaborate with organisations who give us privileged access to data or context, and want first sight of findings. Standard ethics framework applies.

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