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Good Work Nottingham

What can we do to make Nottingham the first good work city in the UK?

Since Nottingham Civic Exchange launched in 2017, we've focused on understanding the challenges facing ordinary working people. The role of paid work is often central to those challenges. We're excited to invite you to join us in exploring how to create a place that provides good work for all. As part of our programme we will be hosting a series of public events.

Please join us to explore how to create a place that provides good work for all. What does good work mean? And what can we do to achieve it? We will be exploring these questions during our event series and wider programme of work.

In this four part series we will:

  • screen a short documentary where we meet Sara and understand how economic insecurity has affected her;
  • understand the current picture of employment locally;
  • look at how health and wellbeing play their part in work and;
  • take a detailed look at bad work and the ways we can challenge it.

Nottingham Civic Exchange is leading Good Work Nottingham with partners from across the country and the region.

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Designing work that makes us healthy and happy

Good Work Nottingham shared six perspectives on this broad topic as provocations for future thinking and action. These summaries are shared in our blog. Participants were asked at the workshop to reflect on these provocations and to consider how guidance and action locally can make a difference.

A working paper called Setting the foundations for healthy work and workplaces (DOC, 56KB) continues to inform our work in this area.

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Laying the Foundations of a Good Work City

Good Work Nottingham aims to understand and tackle economic insecurity. To do this within a place we needed a thorough understanding of the local context. Laying the Foundations of a Good Work City provides a clear, contemporary and regionalised understanding of employment locally. It will help to inform our programme of work going forward and has already begun to shed light on some of the key challenges and opportunities Good Work Nottingham will address.

 
An Ordinary Working Family?

This documentary explores the life of one Ordinary Working Family in Nottingham as they deal with the economic insecurity they face during their day to day life and the resilience shown in the face of these challenges.

Previous events

Making bad work good

This day-long conference looked at this important issue of how a city like Nottingham ensures everyone has meaningful and fulfilling work. It explored a number of sectors which traditionally haven’t had a good reputation before examples of individuals and organisations who have been working to tackle bad work were shared.

This action-oriented event shared and developed examples of best practice and strategies for change, and explored how we can work together to achieve good work for all.

Designing work that makes us healthy and happy

Associate Professor Maria Karanika-Murray and the universities Work, Wellbeing and Performance Research Group explored workplace wellbeing and what organisations can do to create good work environments and cultures.

The current picture of employment in Nottingham - what does this mean for our city?

This event explored what the data tell us about Nottingham’s economy and employment picture and how far we have to go to create a good work city.

An Ordinary Working Family? and Good Work Nottingham

At this event we began the conversation about how to make Nottingham a good work city and debuted a screening of our film ‘An Ordinary Working Family?’.