Highlights

At Emerald Publishing we are committed to equality, and are passionate about equal opportunities and the fair treatment of our global workforce. We aim to achieve a diverse workplace, and provide an inclusive working environment for all our people.

We are addressing the gender pay gap through analysis, insight and robust inclusion plans that will be delivered across the organisation.

We’re pleased to report that our Gender Pay Gap narrowed in 2018 from 24% to 19%, but we recognise that there is further opportunity to do more. This report outlines our plans for how we will continue to support gender equality.

Effective from 13th March, Emerald Group has acquired Mind Tools, a leading digital learning and performance support company that helps users to build their management, leadership and personal effectiveness skills.

Mind Tools reaches millions of learners in more than 180 countries worldwide and this business will now sit alongside GoodPractice and Towards Maturity as market-facing brands within Emerald Learning.

This marks a significant milestone for the Emerald Group, and we are excited to make this important step forward in delivering our vision of bridging research and practice.

Emerald Open Research – the first Open Research Publishing platform for impactful social sciences research – has launched with its first six gateways, which tackle critical world issues linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Designed in partnership with F1000, Emerald also becomes the first publisher to adopt their pioneering Open Research Publishing model, enabling rapid publication followed by transparent expert peer review, helping to maximise impact and reproducibility of a much broader range of research outputs.

Emerald Publishing is delighted to sign up to DORA, the Declaration on Research Assessment, supporting its vision to advance practical and robust approaches to research assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. This aligns with Emerald’s Impact Manifesto, launched by Vicky Williams, Emerald Publishing’s CEO in March 2018. The manifesto called for change across the whole academic ecosystem, recognising that the traditional markers of influence such as citations were not sufficient to tell the full story of impact.

One in a Million School in Bradford is one of our partner charities for this year.

Pupils from the school joined us for a session with local author Daniel Ingram-Brown (Firebird Chronicles Trilogy). During their visit they took part in a creative writing session, in which they were given the chance to enter our writing competition, judged by Emerald owner, Keith Howard.

We also opened the competition up to Emerald staff, so we’ll be selecting two winners; one a pupil from the school and the other, an Emerald employee. Each will either receive a £20 Amazon voucher or a book of their choice!

We’re proud of our positive community impact at Emerald and want to reward and recognise the hard work that our colleagues put in everyday – and encourage everyone to do a little bit more. 

At the beginning of 2019 we launched a new programme called ACT – an online and app-based programme designed to reward colleagues for their positive ACTions as they boost individual sustainability, wellbeing and community impact. The four behaviours centred around the ACTions are: ‘Our Community’, ‘Think Green’, ‘Health and Wellbeing’ and ‘Diversity and Inclusion’.

Our colleagues get the chance to share their achievements, earn points and win prizes – as well as reduce their own and Emerald’s environmental impact!

Emerald LIVE is our annual week-long strategic employee conference, bringing together a globally dispersed leadership team. This event gives our employees the opportunity to network and collaborate over a full week of meetings, workshops, learning, creative thinking, plus some fun and exciting activities thrown in. 

On the 20^th September 2018 we provided an opportunity for all our colleagues across the globe to show their commitment to social responsibility, by making an impact in our local communities. All colleagues at Emerald are entitled to 2 volunteering days per year.

The 2019 charity calendar is a celebration of our Emerald communities across the globe. The photos shown in the calendar have been taken, submitted and chosen by our staff. The money raised from the sale of the calendar will be donated to the Social Mobility Foundation, one of our charity partners.