Maria Wishart
Research Fellow
Maria Wishart joined the Enterprise Research Centre in 2018 after completing her PhD in Ethics. She worked for seventeen years in SMEs before coming to academia. Since joining the ERC, she has contributed to a multi-country study into SME resilience and to a major longitudinal UK study into mental health in the workplace. Her work has addressed the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on small businesses, and she has led research projects focusing on rural enterprise and on workplace wellbeing. She is experienced at teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and her research interests include SME resilience, workplace mental health and business ethics.
Contact Details
| Email: | Maria.Wishart@wbs.ac.uk |
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Research Themes
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Productivity and performance
Biography
Maria Wishart joined the Enterprise Research Centre in 2018 after completing her PhD in Ethics. She worked for seventeen years in SMEs before coming to academia. Since joining the ERC, she has contributed to a multi-country study into SME resilience and to a major longitudinal UK study into mental health in the workplace. Her work has addressed the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on small businesses, and she has led research projects focusing on rural enterprise and on workplace wellbeing. She is experienced at teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and her research interests include SME resilience, workplace mental health and business ethics.
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More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health?
Published: 25 April 2024
ERC Research report
Co-worker experiences of workplace mental health issues: insights from five case studies
Published: 27 November 2023
ERC Insight paper
Workplace Mental Health in Midlands firms 2023: A longitudinal study
Published: 23 May 2023
ERC Research report
Workplace Mental Health in Midlands firms 2022: Baseline Report
Published: 9 February 2023
ERC Research Report
Line managers: The emotional labour of managing workplace mental health issues
Published: 18 October 2022
ERC Insight paper
Workplace mental health and well-being during COVID-19: Evidence from three waves of employer surveys
Published: 26 September 2022
ERC Insight paper
Workplace mental health in Midlands firms 2021: Baseline report
Published: 22 September 2021
ERC Research Report
Workplace mental health and wellbeing in Midlands firms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published: 10 June 2021
ERC Insight Paper
Interactive adaption in ‘mid-chain’ firms: How are supply chains enabling digital and net zero transitions?
Published: 18 May 2021
Research Paper No. 93
Interactive adaption in ‘mid-chain’ firms: How are supply chains enabling digital and net zero transitions?
Published: 18 May 2021
ERC Policy Briefing
Talking about workplace mental health: How do employers in the Midlands understand and experience mental health issues?
Published: 18 November 2020
ERC Insight Paper
Workplace mental health and Covid-19: experiences of firms in the Midlands
Published: 4 November 2020
ERC Insight Paper
What are the main barriers to entrepreneurship in under-represented groups? SOTA review No 40
Published: 9 June 2020
SOTA review No 40
Employee well-being, mental health and productivity in Midlands firms: The employer perspective
Published: 22 May 2020
ERC Research Report
Building resilience in under-represented entrepreneurs: A European comparative study.
Published: 17 January 2020
ERC Research Report
Understanding business resilience among under-represented groups in London
Published: 12 December 2018
ERC Research Report
Business resilience in an SME context: A literature review
Published: 5 July 2018
ERC Research Report
