Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC) Newsletter July 2019
FEATURE NEWS
We kick-started 2019 with CERIC Research Away Days in Weetwood Hall on 21 and 22 of January. The intense sessions were challenging, but there was some inspiring discussion and it was a very productive two days.
As a result of focussed discussions 4 working groups were formed with a view to act as forums for ongoing dialogue that could facilitate new collaborations, grant applications, papers, events, etc:
1. The future of pay 2. Reconceptualising inclusion 3. Technology at work 4. Methodology in the study of work.
We welcome anyone interested in the above themes to get in touch with us.
Chris Forde Professor of Employment Studies, Co-Director of CERIC
We also had a chance to celebrate our strengths, including:
CERIC being one of the largest academic work and employment groups in the country
Our research centre's genuine interdisciplinary nature and expertise across work and employment
A good range of events and activities
Inclusivity and collegiality - CERIC includes colleagues at different stages in their career
Methodological diversity of our centre - with expertise in a range of methods.
Just recently we have also expanded our pool of post doctoral research fellows.This is a great opportunity for our home grown PhDs: Matt Cole, Maisie Roberts and Cheryl Hurst. Congratulations!
At CERIC we organise and host various activities throughout the year: seminars, workshops, conferences, book launches, big ideas sessions and discussion groups.
Past events
In Semester 2 our Seminar Series continued with:
13 February 2019 - Professor Gregor Gall (University of Glasgow/LUBS) Raising union membership - the union default proposal
28 February 2019 - Professor Andrew Sturdy (University of Bristol) Management as consultancy - the hybridity and tensions of neo-bureaucratic management
8 May 2019 - Dr Jo Ingold (CERIC, LUBS), Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite (University of Birmingham), Dr Mark Monaghan (University of Birmingham) Universal Credit and the perspectives of former Jobcentre Plus staff
5 June 2019 - Dr Simone Haasler (GESIS Institute) The Impact of the German VET System on Labour Market Segregation and Gendered Professions
12 June 2019 - Mohammad Morad (University of Padova, Italy) Multiple Migrations, Social Networks and Transnational Ties: The Case of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe
4 July 2019 - Professor Gregor Gall (CERIC Visiting Fellow) hosted a workshop for PhDs and Postdocs Formulating research questions - how, why, when and where?
18 July 2019 - Reconceptualising inclusion at work
FEATURE EVENT CERIC Annual Doctoral Conference
This year the theme for the CERIC Annual Doctoral Conference was 'The Changing Nature of Work'. More than 20 participants from all over the country gave oral and poster presentations on a broad spectrum of disciplines covering the following aspects:
1) New technologies and the influence of Artificial Intelligence upon Labour Markets. 2) New employment trends and the nature of precarious work. 3) Changing demographic and their effects upon workforces.
Traditionally, CERIC offers a £500 prize for the best paper presentation, which was split this year between two winners: Cheryl Hurst (LUBS) and Despoina Georgiou (University of Cambridge). Congratulations!
HIGHLIGHT ACHIEVEMENTS
Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship for Professor Mark Stuart
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Mark Stuart, Founding Director of CERIC, Montague Burton Professor of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations and Pro-Dean for Research, has been conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Awarded Fellows are recognised after an extensive peer review process for the excellence and impact of their work through the use of social science for public benefit. Mark received this honour for his extensive contribution to academic leadership in the social sciences and his impactful research in the field of employment relations, including high profile policy engagement in the area of workplace learning.
This year there were twenty-two winners across the twelve categories. After almost 200 nominations and two rounds of shortlisting, we are proud to celebrate the success of our CERIC winners:
C McLachlan and I Greenwood "The role of the steelworker occupational community in the internalization of industrial restructuring: the 'layering up' of collective proximal and distal experiences" in Sociology
I Bessa "Examining the link between flexible working arrangement bundles and employee work effort" in Human Resource Management
C Umney "Creative placemaking and the cultural projectariat: artistic work in the wake of Hull City of Culture 2017" in Capital and Class
Hugh Cook, Irena Grugulis and James Brooks have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant from Innovate UK which is in partnership with Lowell Financial Ltd. (£100,498).
Vera Trappmann has received €69,000 from the German-Polish Science Foundation to research right-wing populism among young Germans and Poles: Analysis of biographical factors for supporting right-wing parties and organisations". This research will take place in July 2019 - December 2020 in collaboration with FU Berlin, Wroclaw University.
Jo Cutter and Simon Joyce received funding from the British Sociological Association (BSA) Early Career Forum to run an ECR network event entitled: Theorising worker-employer relations in the new world of work. This event took place on 4th April 2019 at LUBS.
An InGRID-2 Inclusive Growth Transnational Access visiting grant to support her internationally comparative and interdisciplinary research on 'Visualizing capabilities: a graphical analysis of work-life policies', at the Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Sweden (€3,000).
An ESRC IAA grant to work with the Business in the Community – the Prince's Responsible Business Network (BITC) to redesign their tools and processes for assessing organisational practice around diversity and inclusion at work. Project title: Redesigning 'The Times Top 50 Employers for Women List' assessment process.
External roles
Jana Javornik has been appointed as an expert adviser to the Gov of Slovenia, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport.
Jo Ingold has been appointed to the Department for Work and Pensions Contracted Health and Employment Services Advisory Board.
MEDIA COVERAGE
On 24 June 2019, Associate Professor in Industrial Relations, Dr Ian Greenwood, spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live about the sale of British Steel.
On 3 June 2019, Associate Professor of Work and Employment Relations, Dr Kate Hardy was featured in the Guardian discussing the gender injustice for sex workers.
On 6 April 2019, Dr Jana Javornik, Associate Professor in Work and Employment Relations, was quoted in an article in the Independent discussing the gender pay gap.
She commented on gender equality in Slovenia, after the country appointed the first two female heads of police and armed forces - Dnevnik, Slovenian daily newspaper.
Jana also co-authored a blog for the British Sociological Association on life post-PhD on navigating the academic job market.
Please follow our Blog and Twitter, where CERIC academics, associates and visitors share their views on the current issues in the field of employment, future of work and labour markets.
CONTACT US
Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change
Leeds University Business School, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
