Applied Research

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Our work brings together completed doctoral research, peer-reviewed publications, applied organizational experience, and an ongoing program of inquiry into Human and Organisational Capacity.

The purpose of the research practice is not simply to publish ideas. It is to develop useful knowledge that helps organizations understand the conditions affecting risk, well-being, human performance, and sustainable execution.

Dr. Brent Halliday’s doctoral research examined how workplace health, safety, and well-being can be integrated into corporate strategy. It explored organizational context, leadership, employee engagement, strategy, governance, and performance measurement, providing a solid foundation for Upside’s advisory work.

The resulting framework offers an evidence-informed basis for treating workplace health, safety, and well-being as interconnected strategic concerns. It supports advisory work in strategy development, governance, leadership, engagement, integration, and performance measurement.

Upside’s published work contributes to the evidence base linking health, safety, well-being, and corporate strategy. Research publications, presentations, and practitioner papers are made accessible to leaders seeking practical, evidence-informed approaches to organizational challenges.

This developing research extends the completed doctoral work by examining how organisational conditions affect what people and teams can mobilise under real operating conditions. The provisional framework considers capacity as dynamic and context-sensitive, with potential implications for decision quality, speaking up, coordination, safe adaptation, engagement, energy and sustainable performance.

The Human Capacity Research translates the developing proposition into accessible discussion papers for boards, leaders and practitioners. Topics include:

• Human Capacity 
• Beyond Competence 
• When Capable People Have No Capacity Left 
• Capacity and Decision Quality Under Pressure 
• Designing Work That Builds Capacity 
• Measuring What People Can Mobilise 

Upside welcomes collaboration with organisations, researchers and professional bodies interested in advancing knowledge about strategic risk, organisational wellbeing and Human Capacity. 

Potential partnerships may include:

• Organisational research pilots 
• Collaborative case studies 
• Applied research projects 
• Framework development and testing 
• Practitioner and executive roundtables 
• Research translation 
• Industry presentations and publications 

Research partnerships are designed with appropriate attention to ethics, confidentiality, evidence quality and the developing status of the Human Capacity Framework.