Journal Articles
Dr Kate Hardy had a Special Issue 'Everyday Self-Employment', which features 8 articles on the sociology of self-employment in
American Behavioral Scientist, as well as an article in the same issue co-written with K. Cruz "Affective organising: organising self-employed sex workers in Argentina".
Dr Gabriela Alberti and M. Tapia "Unpacking the category of migrant workers in trade union research: A multilevel approach to migrant intersectionalities" in
Work Employment and Society.Dr Zinovijus Ciupijus,
Prof Robert MacKenzie and
Prof Christopher Forde "The worker branch in Yorkshire as a way of organising Polish migrants: exploring the process of carving out diasporic spaces within the trade union structure" in
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.Ciccia, R and
Dr Jana Javornik (Eds.) "Methodological challenges for comparative welfare state research: capturing intra-country variation in cross-national analyses" in
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 21(1).
Chapters in edited books
Dr Matthew Cole (2018). Exploitation. In: Andrew Pendakis, Imre Szeman, and Jeff Diamanti (Ed.): The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, Bloomsbury Academic.
Reports
Dr Gabriella Alberti and
Prof Chris Forde submitted the interim report as part of their research for the Leeds City Council: An Evaluation of The Migrant Access Project Plus. The research is ongoing and will be completed in 2019. The Evaluation is based on qualitative interviews with stakeholders, service providers and migrant community neworkers, mapping the outcomes of the City council's project to integrate migrant communities into service and address inter-cultural tensions locally.
Dr Matthew Cole authored a section entitled "A New Force For Convergence" as part of a report for the Autonomy think thank titled
Social Wealth Funds in the UK. The full report can be found
here.Research grants awarded
Dr Gabriella Alberti,
Dr Jo Cutter,
Dr Zyama Ciupijus,
Prof Chris Forde and
Dr Ioulia Bessa have been successful in their application for LUBS External Grant funding for the project "The impact of Brexit on employers and employment rights".
Dr Zinovijus Ciupijus is a part of a research bid: 'Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in "Ordinary" Towns and Cities after Brexit' for the ESRC "Governance after Brexit". The programme was approved by the ESRC for funding (worth around just below £750,000). It is based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy and led by Professor Adrian Favell. Zinovijus will be a co-investigator on it among colleagues from the School of Sociology (Roxana Barbulescu, Yasmin Hussein, Albert Varela and Andrew Wallace).
External roles
Dr Gabriella Alberti became a Review Editor of the Work, Employment and Organizations section of the journal(s)
Frontiers in Sociology, led by Chief Editor Prof. Valeria Pulignano of KU Leuven.
Conferences
Prof Irena Grugulis gave the opening plenary at the 2018
Work, Employment and Society Conference in Belfast on 'Soft skills in computer games: a sociological approach'.
Dr Charles Umney was invited to be the main speaker at the Kevin McMahon memorial lecture which is an annual event organised by SIPTU which takes place in Dublin.
Dr Vera Trappmann was invited to speak as a panellist at the biannual German Sociological Associations conference to speak about labour mobilisation among young Germans.
Dr Jana Javornik organised the
Global Equality and Diversity Conference in London.
Dr Gabriella Alberti and Devi Sacchetto were successful with a proposal to the Global Labour Migration: Past and Present (June 20-22, 2019) at The International Institute for Social History (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for a panel on "Mobilities strategies, transnational migration and 'labour's power".
Other achievements
Dr Gabriella Alberti gave
a talk at 7 Arts café on the 6ht of November "
Thinking Through Precariousness: Work, mobility and voice reconfigurations in the UK".Prof Jennifer Tomlinson, who recently published
research on female part-time managers and the barriers they face to progressing in work, was invited to speak at the academic seminar organised by the
Government Equalities Office on
Women's Progression in the Workplace.Dr Charles Umney,
Dr Matt Cole and
Dr Vera Trappmann spoke at a workshop about "The Frontier of Control: Workplace Regimes from 19th Century to the 21st Century Gig Economy" organised by the Independent Working Class Education Network
Dr Vera Trappmann chaired the session on Automation, the Future of Work and Alternative Policies at the Workshop "The Future of Inclusive Growth in Leeds City Region" organised by LSSI.
Dr Jana Javornik has been successful in the selection process for appointment to the (1) WES Editorial Board (together with Jo Ingold) and (2) Barking and Dagenham Equalities Sub Group.
Dr Jana Javornik has been appointed to the Business in the Community Equality – The Prince's Responsible Business Network to review and provide advice on the Times Top 50 Employers for Women Awards assessment process, scoring and evaluation.
The Journal of Professions and Organization has invited
Dr Sundeep Aulakh to join the JPO Editorial Board.
