Micro CPD Courses

Each course is built from a published academic paper — AI-summarised, podcast-enabled, and free to take at your own pace.

The role of social capital in SMEs for polycrisis management

Gordon Fletcher, Alex Fenton, Jonathan Lord, Marie Griffiths  · 2026

This paper investigates how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use social capital to survive and adapt during a 'polycrisis' — a period of overlapping, interconnected crises such as…

The Single Silo University

Gordon Fletcher, Richard Dron and Mònica Dalmau Gimeno

This paper examines the University of Salford's bold strategic transformation from 2016-2021, where industry partnerships became the institution's single overarching priority. Previously, university-industry collaborations were managed in departmental…