Areas and
issues researched:
sustainable tourism / labour rights in apparel /
mining / cross-sectoral engagement / social auditing / environmental
certification and accreditation / HIV/AIDS / nutrition and obesity / trade law /
corporate accountability laws / NGO accountability / ethics and leadership
/ financial system volatility / timber trade and deforestation /
responsibilities of international fruit trade / gender and corporate
responsibility / transforming complex social
systems
Lifeworth offers:
• Policy-oriented research, to
support monitoring, evaluation, or decision-making, for clients such as WWF,
UNAIDS.
• Theory-driven research, for academic institutions, drawing
upon political science, sociology, development studies, management studies and
organisational theory.
Lifeworth
uses:
• Quantitative methods, such as statistical analysis of
survey data, for clients such as UNAIDS.
• Qualitative methods,
including case studies, for clients such as UNRISD, as well as action research,
for clients such as DfID.
From this Lifeworth
writes:
• Journalism, for magazines such as Ethical Corporation
and Open Democracy, as well as Lifeworth's Annual Reviews.
• Practitioner reports, for clients such as World Tourism Organisation
and Bureau Veritas.
• Theoretical papers, for academic journals such as
Annals of Tourism Research, the leading journal in its field.
• Book and report editing, for example the book Terms
for Endearment, with 22 contributors, and ID21.org Insights.
The output
of our ongoing research on corporate responsibility is the Lifeworth Annual
Review
.
Lifeworth's team have, for over 10 years, produced research that has led thinking in business, public policy and academia. Dr Bendell's publications have inspired cross-sectoral partnering on sustainable development, as well as highlighting their challenges and needed evolution towards a more transformative agenda.
