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Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC)
Newsletter December 2020
 
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ANNIVERSARY BROCHURE

September 2020 saw the publication of the CERIC printed and digital anniversary brochure marking 15 years of innovative and impactful research.

In this 40-paged brochure you will read about the centre's history, research themes, staff profiles, post doctoral programme and doctoral academy, see our international networks, explore our current and recent research projects and browse a list of our publications. 
 

FEATURE NEWS
 
 
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In August 2020 Professor Jonathan Winterton took up his post as Head
of the Work and Employment Relations Division and joined CERIC community.  

Prior to this post, Jonathan taught at Bradford, Edinburgh, Toulouse Business School, Curtin University in Sarawak and the Faculty of Business and Law at Taylor's University (Malaysia). He returned to the UK in 2019 as Head of the Department of Management at Huddersfield Business School.
 

ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES FELLOWSHIP
FOR PROFESSOR IRENA GRUGULIS 
 
Professor Irena Grugulis is one of 73 leading social scientists joining the Fellowship this autumn, who through leadership, applied research, policymaking and practice, have helped to address and deepen understanding of some of the toughest challenges facing society and the world. Irena is now the second member of CERIC after Professor Mark Stuart to have been conferred this prestigious award. Congratulations!
 
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CONGRATULATIONS ON PROMOTIONS TO:
 
 
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In November 
Jana Javornik 
received an Award from
the Slovene Sociological Association
for her contribution to sociology.
 

WELL DONE TO NADINE AND CALUM
for passing their PhD VIVA!
 
 
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CERIC MEMBERS UPDATES
 
 
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A warm welcome
to our new PhD students:

Jaejin Lee
Ne Ma
Russell Martin
Chinelo Nwachukwu
David Roberts
Bethan Starkey
Kai Zhao


Read more about
CERIC Doctoral Academy
 
 
 
Ian Greenwood had a surprise send-off on his last day before retirement. As his Zoom meeting with the Head of the Division came to a close, all members of CERIC and the Division were secretly let in from the waiting room to share kind words and wish Ian all the best for his new life. 

What advice would Ian give us all?

Time flies far too quickly.
My only advice to all is do not waste
a single second.

We are pleased to announce that Ian has been given honorary academic status and we look forward to still seeing him!
 
 
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In December 2020 Matt Cole left Leeds to take up another postdoctoral research fellow position at the Oxford Internet Institute working on the Fairwork Project. Matt did his PhD at Leeds, which in his own words was life-changing.

I felt incredibly lucky to have such a supportive, collegial and politically astute environment to develop as young (ish) academic. I would be lying if I said I was not reluctant to leave. 
 
Matt will continue to work on various projects with CERIC colleagues.
 
 
AUTUMN WEBINAR SERIES
 
After a successful anniversary series of the webinars last summer, we continued to showcase our diverse research interests and sustained record of research on social inequalities, voice and representation and digital futures of work. We were also pleased to welcome a number of guest presenters. The sessions included:

28 September (joint with LESS Group) 
Climate, class, and civilizational crises in the Holocene
Prof Jason Moore (Binghampton University, USA)
Watch the webinar recording here

18 November
After the social crisis: The transformation of employment relations at France Télécom 
Virginia Doellgast (Cornell University) and Elisa Pannini (LSE)
Watch the webinar recording here

25 November (joint with Northern Exposure)
Stories from a migrant city: living and working together in the shadow of Brexit
Ben Rogaly (Sussex)
Watch the webinar recording here

30 November (joint with LESS Group)
What's wrong with the food system? 
Steffen Böhm (University of Exeter Business School)
Watch the webinar recording here

2 December
Scaling Up: Combatting Modern Slavery in Supply Chains
Judy Fudge (McMaster University, Canada)
Watch the webinar recording here

9 December
The end of the sweatshop age or a new race to the bottom?
Ashok Kumar (Birkbeck)
Watch the webinar recording here
 
 
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Virginia Doellgast, 
Cornell University
 
 
 
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Elisa Pannini,
London School of Economics
 
 
 
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Ashok Kumar, Birkbeck
 
 
 
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Judy Fudge, 
McMaster University
 
 
RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Research grants awarded

Kate Hardy (PI), Jennifer Tomlinson and Helen Norman will work on The impact of COVID-19 on the provision of Early Years childcare in England and Wales project funded by ESRC/UKRI COVID Rapid Response (£428,211).
 
Research England Strategic Priorities Fund (£32,313) has enabled Jo Cutter and Vera Trappmann to research The worker voice in Just Transitions to a low-carbon economy: building evidenced based policy making in Yorkshire and the Humber.
 
Mark Stuart, David Spencer, Christopher Forde (and Dr Chris Mclachlan, Cranfield) were also awarded £37,903 by the Research England Strategic Priorities Fund for Responding to the COVID-19 jobs crisis and beyond: building an evidence base for public policy. 

Andy Charlwood and Danat Valizade have received £155,948 from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for their project Building a policy and sector relevant evidence-base of the relationships between care home staffing and quality: Developing insights and using novel methodological approaches.

 
Recent publications

Brouwers, L. 'We Have Advised Sex Workers to Simply Choose Other Options'—The Response of Adult Service Websites to COVID-19. Social Sciences, 2020, 9(10), 181 Read here.
 
"The Political Economy of Datafication and Work: A New Digital Taylorism?" By Matthew Cole, Hugo Radice and Charles Umney, in Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living, Edited by Leo Panitch and Gregory Albo

Harcourt, M., Gall, G., Novell, N. and Wilson, M. 'Boosting union membership: reconciling liberal and social democratic conceptions of freedom of association via a union default' Industrial Law Journal, pp1-30. Read here.
 
Gall, G. 'Twenty Years of the Third Statutory Union Recognition Procedure in Britain: Outcomes and Impact', Industrial Law Journal, pp1-6. Read here.
 
Harcourt, M., Gall, G., Wilson, M., Rubenstein, K. and Shang, S. 'Public support for a union default: predicting factors and implications for public policy' Economic and Industrial Democracy, pp1-24. Read here.
 
Situating Human Resource Management in the Political Economy: Multilevel Theorising and Opportunities for Kaleidoscopic Imagination (Steve Vincent, Greg Bamber, Rick Delbridge, Virginia Doellgast, Jo Grady and Irena Grugulis) Human Resource Management Journal. Read here.

Javornik, J., M.A. Yerkes (2020). 'Conceptualizing National Family Policies: A Capabilities Approach,' In: Rense Nieuwenhuis and Wim Van Lancker (Eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, Palgrave MacMillan, p. 141-167. Read here.
 
Terry, E., Marks, A., Dakessian, A., & Christopoulos, D. (2020). Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: Exploring the Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector. Work, Employment and Society, accepted for publication: forthcoming.
 
Garcia R, Tomlinson J. 2020. Rethinking the Domestic Division of Labour: Exploring Change and Continuity in the Context of Redundancy. Sociology. Read here.
 
 

EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENTS
 
 
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Helen Norman has been appointed an Associate Editor for Families, Relationships and Societies journal starting in January 2021.
 
 
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Jane Holgate has been appointed as a non-legal member of the Employment Tribunal in London.
 
 

Irena Grugulis has been invited to the Editorial Board of Human Relations.
 
Presentations

  • On 16 October Chris Forde gave a presentation at the European Week of Cities and Regions on 'Social protection for platform workers: challenges and opportunities' drawing on CERIC's research into platform work, involving Mark Stuart, Simon Joyce,  Gabriella Alberti, Kate Hardy,  Liz Oliver, Vera Trappmann, Charles Umney, Danat Valizade  and Calum Carson. Watch a recording of this event.

  • On 19 November Helen Norman participated in the Global Institute for Women's Leadership workshop to help develop a gender equality index for UK neighbourhoods working with other organisations such as the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Trades Union Congress.  On the 10 December she delivered a keynote speech reporting on progress against pillar three of the European Commission's 2020-25 Gender Equality Strategy at a virtual seminar with members of the EU High level group on gender mainstreaming. The seminar is part of the EU Mutual Learning in Gender Equality Programme.

  • Irena Grugulis gave the opening plenary address to the Annual Conference of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers in Edinburgh.
 

Media coverage
 
 
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Dr Jo Cutter
Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations
 
 
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Professor Chris Forde
Professor of Employment Studies
 
  • 10 August 2020 - Chris Forde and Jo Cutter discussed the challenges around preparing for skills development and provision in an article for Public Sector Executive Magazine's August/September 2020 Issue.

  • 11 September 2020 - Professor Mark Stuart discussed the uncertainty around future working patterns and the need for careful planning in an article for People Management.

  • 20 November 2020 - Jana Javornik commented in an article published in The Independent titled 'Equal Pay Day 2020: What is the gender pay gap and how is it different from equal pay?'.
 

SOCIAL MEDIA
 
Blogs
 
 
Is music streaming bad for musicians?

by Professor David Hesmondhalgh

Music streaming has hit the headlines many times over the last decade, with claims that streaming services, like Spotify and Apple Music, are damaging the record industry and that musicians are being paid unfairly. Within the last month, it was announced that MPs will be launching an inquiry into the economic impact music streaming services have on artists and those involved in the music industry. 
 
 
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Cut hours, not people: no work, furlough, short hours and mental health during COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

by Ioulia Bessa

Paid work is not only a source for income, it is also essential for good mental health. Apart from its financial benefits employment contributes positively on wellbeing and consistent with previous research even one day of paid work a week can make the difference and can boost mental health and life satisfaction.
 
Podcasts
 
 
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Platform work is often controversial and contested, and as such there have been numerous studies of platform labour protest. However, these have tended to be single or small comparative case studies. Professor Mark Stuart and Denis Neumann talk about why there is a pressing need to explore platform worker protest on a global scale. 
 
 
Vera Trappmann and Alexandra Seehaus give a summary of their insights into young precarious workers in Poland and Germany.
 
 
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Twitter
 
Follow us on 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. 
 

LAST BUT NOT LEAST 
 
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Merry Christmas to all our readers, followers and subscribers!
In a year filled with challenges we are grateful for your support!
Wishing you happiness and health in 2021!
 
 

CONTACT US
 

Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change

Leeds University Business School,
The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT

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