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Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) Newsletter July 2020 |
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In spite of the Covid-19 and the lockdown, we are still marking our 15th year anniversary with a range of activities, including a series of webinars showcasing CERIC research, and a dedicated celebration event later in the year (fingers crossed). Our anniversary activities will focus on our three overarching themes of:- social inequalities,
- representation and
- voice and digital futures of work.
We have much to celebrate in terms of research and impact in the past 15 years. We have had a wealth of high impact publications. CERIC has held the Editorship of the leading international journal Work, Employment and Society from 2011 to 2014 and the Stewardship of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association from 2013 to 2016.We have hosted major international conferences including the International Labour Process Conference in 2011, and Work, Employment and Society and the British Universities Industrial Relations Association annual conference in 2016, alongside many other events and workshops attracting international delegates, including most recently our Disrupting Technologies Conference in January 2020.
Over the years, CERIC has acted as a focal point for visiting researchers, attracting colleagues from Australia, USA, China, Turkey, Spain, Finland, Germany, Italy and Sweden.
In August 2020 we anticipate the publication of our Anniversary Brochure, which will present our core staff profiles and research areas, as well as the Doctoral Academy and the Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme. You can read about a selection of the funded projects we are working on and the key publications in the last 5 years. | | Well done and congratulations!Professor Irena Grugulis was a runner up in this year's Business School Partnership Awards in the "Best Supervisor" category.
Dr Cheryl Hurst has also been a runner up in the category "Best Postgraduate Researchers who Teach or Demonstrate". There were over 250 nominations across twelve categories and it was a difficult task for the panel of student and staff Faculty representatives to shortlist. | | | | | | On 30 January 2020 CERIC and partners launched an £8m ESRC funded Digit research centre. The Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit) is led is led by CERIC (Leeds University Business School) and University of Sussex Business School with partners from Aberdeen, Cambridge, Manchester and Monash Universities. The centre aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work. It examines the impact and interaction of these technologies for employers, employees and their representatives, job seekers and governments. Digit aims to provide a compelling empirical base that will allow policy makers to move beyond current levels of speculation, while contributing intellectually with empirical evidence to contemporary debates on the future of work. Digit is supported by an advisory board which brings together representatives from organisations including: Ernst & Young, Marks and Spencer, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), Unionlearn and TUC. Representatives from the Pew Research Centre in Washington, the International Labour Office in Geneva, the German Ministry of Labour and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) are also on the advisory board. Read more about the launch of Digit. | | In January 2020 we also welcomed two new academics | | Helen Norman joined CERIC as a Senior Research Fellow. Previously she worked in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Helen's research interests focus on fathers and fatherhood, the gendered division of labour and gender inequalities in work, employment and family life. She is also interested in cross-national variations of gender inequalities in work, employment and care practices, and gender equality policies in Europe. Much of her work uses quantitative analysis to explore how policy regimes, gender role attitudes, socio-demographics, employment hours and other employment related factors affect unpaid work (childcare and housework), work-family reconciliation and working-time. Read Helen's profile IN FULL. | | | | | | | | Zlatko Bodrožić is a Lecturer in Information Management at Leeds University Business School. His research focuses on the evolution of technologies, organisational paradigms/ management models, and public policy. In particular, Zlatko is interested in Digital transformation and the sustainability of societies. At the European Group of Organizational Studies conferences (2021-2024), he acts as co-coordinator of the Standing Working Group "Organization Studies in the Anthropocene: System Change, not Climate Change". In December 2019, Zlatko received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. Read Zlatko's profile IN FULL. | | | | RETIREMENT
Congratulations and best wishes to Dr Ian Greenwood who will be retiring at the end of October. Ian started at Leeds in 2001, as Research Fellow on the EU Framework project 'Learning in Partnership: Responding to the Restructuring of the EU Steel and Metal sectors. He has been a core member of CERIC since it was established in 2005, and he is well-known for his research into restructuring, industrial strategy and the steel industry. Amongst many achievements, Ian co-authored the influential Steel 2020: Forging a Future for the UK Steel Industry. Beyond academic work, Ian has been (and continues to be) involved in a wide range of local and regional community initiatives. He is a much valued colleague, mentor, supervisor, friend and comrade, and will be missed by everyone. We wish him all the best for his retirement - though we know he will not 'go gentle into that goodnight!' - and hope he will continue to be involved in CERIC. | | | | | | | | Dr Jo Ingold will be leaving CERIC and Leeds in August to take up a role as Associate Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Management, Deakin Business School, Melbourne, Australia. | | | | Dr Chris McLachlan completed his postdoc contract with us and was promptly snatched by the lucky Cranfield University, where Chris is taking up a lectureship position. He still has some live research projects with CERIC colleagues so he will not be going too far away just as yet. | | | | | | Visitor to CERIC
In February 2020 we were pleased to welcome Associate Professor Hiroya Hirano who was visiting CERIC from Mejiro University, Japan. His visit was to inform his comparative research on social security and employment policies in Japan and the UK. Hiroya has written extensively about these topics and about Basic Income in Japan. | | At CERIC we organise and host various activities throughout the year: seminars, workshops, conferences, book launches, big ideas sessions and discussion groups. | | Disrupting Technology ConferenceOn 16 and 17 of January 2020 CERIC hosted a large international "Disrupting Technology" Conference with Janine Berg (INWORK, Switzerland) and Enda Brophy (Simon Fraser University, Canada) as keynote speakers. Attendance far exceeded our expectations, with nearly 100 delegates from all over the world (including Australia, US, many European countries, Israel, Vietnam). Many overseas delegates were so impressed they have asked if they can come and visit us at Leeds and we have already had one application for a visiting position. Outputs will include a CERIC edited Special Issue of New Technology, Work and Employment. The conference was good in terms of extending the international reputational reach of Leeds colleagues in this field. | | CERIC Away Days
Also in January 2020, CERIC held its Away Days at Weetwood Conference Centre. This was an opportunity for CERIC members to meet and discuss research activities in a focused, interactive way over a couple of days. This year there was a particular focus on CERIC strategy and governance, along with the formulation of the fewer, more decisive research themes, which are presented below: | |
CERIC Seminars in Semester 2
In Semester 2 we enjoyed a number of outstanding presentations as part of our Seminar Series (which from April, as a result of covid-19 lockdown, transformed into Zoom webinars): - 5 February 2020 - Professor Ewart Keep (Oxford) Is UK skills policy being undermined by poor job quality?
- 19 February 2020 - Dr Mark Williams (Queen Mary University of London) Mapping good work: the quality of working life across the occupational structure
- 22 April 2020 - Dr Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde) New technologies at work: situated knowledge, collaboration and voice
- 29 April 2020 - Dr Mariya Ivancheva (University of Liverpool) Platform academic labour? New divisions and vulnerabilities in online higher education
- 6 May 2020 - Dr Joyce Jiang (York) Visualising the voice of migrant domestic workers in London
- 27 May 2020 - Dr Ian Fitzgerald (Northumbria University) Trade unions and the 2016 UK European Union referendum
| | Reports
Our researchers - Simon Joyce, Denis Neumann, Vera Trappmann, Charles Umney.- have been working on an Index of Platform Labour Protest. The newly developed Leeds Index provides an overview of developments in platform worker organisation and mobilisation on a global scale. First findings are now published with the European Trade Union Institute as a Policy Brief. Read more about it here. On 12 February Winkworth Sherwood Law (WS Law) published a report titled 'Shifting attitudes to flexible working and childcare for working parents' with specialist input from Dr Jana Javornik. Dr Javornik, who is currently the Interim Director-General of Higher Education at the Government of Slovenia, stressed that the uptake of shared parental leave will depend on equal pay for fathers and mothers who will take parental leave, as well as the culture of organisations changing. Read more about it here. | | | Recent publications
Ciupijus Z Forde C Mackenzie R (2020) Micro and meso-regulatory spaces of labour mobility power: the role of ethnic and kinship networks in shaping work-related movements of post-2004 Central Eastern European migrants to the UK. Population, Space and Place 25(1): 1-11
Cook H MacKenzie R and Forde C (2020) Union partnership as a facilitator to HRM: Improving implementation through oppositional engagement. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 31(10): 1262-1284 Ingold J (2020) Employers' perspectives on benefit conditionality in the UK and Denmark. Social Policy and Administration 54(2): 236-249
Ingold J (2020) Employer engagement in active labour market programmes: the role of boundary spanners. Public Administration 96(4): 707-720
Norman H (2020) Does paternal involvement in childcare influence mothers' employment trajectories during the early stages of parenthood in the UK? Sociology Vol 54(2): 329-345
Oliver L Carter C Stubbs C and Aiello A (2020) Generating interdisciplinary insights to regulate for inclusive employment. In Fielden S Moore M and Wright G eds (2020) Handbook of Disability at Work, Springer International Publishing AG
Roe A and Athelstan A (2020) Defending Wellbeing at Work: A Case Study of Autism. In Dundon T and Wilkinson A eds Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar
Spencer D and Slater G (2020) No automation please, we're British: technology and the prospects for work. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 13(1): 117-134. | | Appointments and presentations | | | | Dr Jo Ingold was appointed as a Fellow of the Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP). In March 2020 Jo gave an invited keynote at the inaugural IEP Summit in London. And in June, together with Tony Carr (4FrontPartners) she gave a LiveLearnLunch webinar on employer engagement, attended by 100 employability practitioners. Lastly, Jo has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. | | | | 23 June 2020 - Ian Greenwood shared his expert opinion in the Yorkshire Business Insider sector review on manufacturing. 13 May 2020 - Jennifer Tomlinson discussed the gender pay gap and the lack of females at Executive Director level in the City of Leeds in the Yorkshire Evening Post.29 April 2020 - Professor Jennifer Tomlinson was featured in The Telegraph, discussing why countries with female leaders have been perceived as the most effective at controlling the coronavirus pandemic. | | | | | Professor Jennifer Tomlinson | | | | | |
"Technologies in the workplace" podcast
Professors Chris Forde and Mark Stuart gave an overview of the impact of digital technologies and how they might replace jobs, create new types of jobs, and change the nature of the way we work in this Research and Innovation Podcast. | | If you have any questions or comments about the content of this Newsletter or if you wish to join CERIC Mailing List, please email ceric@leeds.ac.uk | | | | | | | | | | |
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