News release

23 March 2010:

Globis has been selected to provide training for staff selected to become in-house mediators and will support the College’s implementation plans. One of the UK’s leading universities, Queen Mary, University of London recognises the role mediation can play in helping to build better relationships in the workplace. The extension of the mediation scheme has been developed as a partnership between HR, unions and staff. 

Sara Corcoran, Head of HR Strategy and Change said “We look forward to working closely with Globis as we expand our capacity for internal mediation and strive to foster a culture of alternative dispute resolution”.

Clive Lewis, Globis director said “It is an honour and privilege to be selected to support such a prestigious organisation. We are looking forward to helping Queen Mary University of London achieve some of the many benefits that come from working with mediation. We have a track record of helping some of the largest organisations in the UK in this area and are excited about partnering with Queen Mary, University of London in a similar way”.

Mediation is being embraced by an increasing number of leading organisations across the UK. The repeal of the statutory dispute procedures on 6^th April 2009 is helping this. The business case for mediation is compelling. Research indicates the cost of conflict at work in the UK as £24bn. Organisations working with mediation have been able to demonstrate significant savings in relation to money and management time.  

For more details visit www.qmul.ac.uk and www.globis.co.uk

Note to Editors:

About Queen Mary University

• Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions with some 15,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• Amongst the largest of the colleges of the University of London, Queen Mary’s 3,000 staff deliver world class degree programmes and research across 21 academic departments and institutes, within three sectors: Science and Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws: and the school of Medicine and Dentistry.
• Queen Mary is ranked 11^th in the UK according to the Guardian analysis of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and has been described as ‘the biggest star among the research-intensive institutions’ by the Times Higher Education.
• The college has a strong international reputation, with around 20 per cent of students coming from over 100 countries.
• Queen Mary has an annual turnover of £220 million, research income worth £61 million, and generates employment and output worth £600 million to the UK economy each year.
• Queen Mary, as a member of the 1994 Group of research-focused universities, has made a strategic commitment to the highest quality of research, but also to the best possible educational, cultural and social experience for its students. The college is unique amongst London’s universities in being able to offer a completely integrated residential campus, with a 2,000-bed award-winning Student Village on its Mile End campus.

About Globis  

• Globis is one of the UK’s leading national providers of workplace mediation services.
• Globis director, Clive Lewis, is the author of ‘The Definitive Guide to Workplace Mediation’.
• Globis is a Board member of the Civil Mediation Council.
• Globis recently trained 16 mediators at East Sussex County Council leading to the implementation of an in-house mediation scheme which has delivered cost savings of just under £1m in just over one year. East Sussex County Council was on the short list for the CIPD 2009 awards for the introduction of the scheme.

A new ACAS code of practice introducing the concept mediation for the first time was introduced in April 2009

For more information or to request an interview call Helen Robinson on 0303 100 0809 or email Helen.robinson@globis.co.uk

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