{"id":332,"date":"2024-11-13T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/?p=332"},"modified":"2024-11-13T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:34:18","slug":"roundtable-discussion-can-flexible-job-design-improve-employment-outcomes-for-people-with-fluctuating-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/2024\/11\/13\/roundtable-discussion-can-flexible-job-design-improve-employment-outcomes-for-people-with-fluctuating-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtable discussion: can flexible job design improve employment outcomes for people with fluctuating disabilities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 12 November,\u00a0<strong>Dr Calum Carson\u00a0<\/strong>participated as an invited speaker in a roundtable exploring how flexible job design and help to improve employment outcomes for people with fluctuating disabilities. Highlighting recent research on &#8220;FlexPlus&#8221; jobs conducted by Kings College London researchers Catherine Hale, Ben Baumberg Geiger and Kim Hoque , speakers at the roundtable (consisting of employers, professional organisations and researchers) discussed how employers could help to support people to better balance their disabilities and\/or long-term health conditions with their working lives through the introduction of &#8220;FlexPlus&#8221; jobs, and how best to persuade employers of the virtues of such roles.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/research\/flexible-job-design-people-with-fluctuating-disabilities\">More information on the FlexPlus project can be found here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 12 November,\u00a0Dr Calum Carson\u00a0participated as an invited speaker in a roundtable exploring how flexible job design and help to improve employment outcomes for people with fluctuating disabilities. Highlighting recent research on &#8220;FlexPlus&#8221; jobs conducted by Kings College London researchers Catherine Hale, Ben Baumberg Geiger and Kim Hoque , speakers at the roundtable (consisting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}