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Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC)
Newsletter July 2022 |
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BUIRA Fellowship for Professor Mark Stuart | | | | | | |
"Sad to miss this year's BUIRA conference, but extremely honoured to receive this. A vital association for the promotion of industrial relations research and the development of early career researchers".
| | | | | All the best and good luck with your new chapter! | | | Professor Andy Charlwood is leaving CERIC but not going far! He will be joining the Organisational Behaviour Group in the LUBS Management Department. Andy has played a central role in the Department both as Head of Department and in leading the development of HRM analytics both as a research area and a new PGT programme. Many thanks, Andy, for all of your collegiality and support, and your leadership during what was a really challenging time of the pandemic. All the very best for your move to OB and we hope to continue working with you. | | | | | | | | | Dr Hyun-young Jo will be leaving CERIC in August 2022 to join the team in King's College London. It has been wonderful working with you, Young! All the best wishes in your future career! | | | | |
Welcome to new members of CERIC
| | | Georgina Trace joined the CERIC Childcare during COVID project in May. Her role involves the impact and dissemination of the project's research evidence and policy advocacy. Over the last month, she has supported Xanthe Whittaker in organising and advertising the CERIC two-day summit event: What "Future for the Early Years?" She is also a current PhD student at Leeds University working within the CERIC research centre, exploring women's experiences, and working practices within digital sex work. | | | | | | | | | | Dr Ursula Balderson has joined Jo Cutter and Vera Trappmann on a new project ' Just Transition: Action, concepts debates in international comparison. Strategies in 11 countries'. The project is country-level comparative study of factors influencing Just Transition policymaking. Ursula is an interdisciplinary social scientist interested in how non-state actors (e.g., unions, companies) can influence policies and social norms that contribute to social and environmental sustainability as well as how a transition to a greener economy can improve worker wellbeing and quality of life. | | | | | Ursula has been working with Jo and Vera on a variety of projects relating to labour, climate change and worker voice since January 2020. Prior to working at Leeds, she was a postdoc on a project about the relationship between working hours and wellbeing at the University of Cambridge. Ursula completed her PhD in environmental sociology at Newcastle in 2018. Her most recent publication can be accessed here. | | | Visiting Research Fellows | | | Dr Rachel Mathieson is working with Chris Forde on teachers' workplace experiences and well-being. Her research interests stem from her own experiences over 15 years in the classroom, and her involvement with the teaching unions. Formerly a Research Fellow in the School of Education at Leeds, Rachel is currently combining teaching in a secondary school in West Yorkshire with a number of research and evaluation projects as an independent researcher. | | | | | | | | | | In July 2022 we were delighted to host Professor Irene Bajo Garcia from the Faculty of Law at the University of Alicante, Spain. The research visit formed a mutually beneficial research exchange: the writing of a collaborative journal paper, discussion of potential collaborative research around social protection in the platform economy with CERIC colleagues, and discussion for further collaboration between CERIC and the University of Alicante. | | | | | Dr Jana Javornik has been appointed an Expert Adviser to the Slovene Minister for Economic Development and Technology, as a member of their newly established Strategic Advisory Board. | | | Well done to Dr Felix Schulz who in March 2022 received an Award for his thesis - Outstanding Academic Performance Prize, PhD in the Faculty of Business. | | | - Well done to Rana Alyami, who successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The theory and practice of new public management. A case study of Saudi Arabia with particular reference to the Saudi health sector'. Supervisors: Prof Chris Forde and Prof Mark Stuart.
| | | At CERIC we organise and host various activities throughout the year: seminars, workshops, conferences, book launches and discussion groups. | | | Annual Doctoral Conference 2022 | | | On 20th May 2022 CERIC hosted the Annual Doctoral Conference "Work in a Changing World". The event was organized by Dr Charles Umney and Dr Ioulia Bessa and postgraduate researchers Ne Ma and Kai Zhao. This year the conference was convened in a hybrid format. The combination of face-to-face interactions and virtual communications bestowed both convenience and flexibility, which enabled us to welcome postgraduate researchers in-person and online from well-established higher institutions around the world, including India, Japan, China, the US, Israel, Netherland, and Norway. The Opening Ceremony was held by Dr Charles Umney, the PGR Director, who delivered a welcome speech and introduced the history of the CERIC doctoral conference. Next, the keynote presentation Work and Employment in the 'Post-COVID' Era: New Uncertainties, Risks, and Precarities? was delivered by Professor Chris Forde, the Co-Director of CERIC and Professor of Employment Studies at the University of Leeds. Professor Mark Stuart, the Founding Director of CERIC and Montague Burton Professor of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations at the University of Leeds, gave the final remarks at the closing ceremony. The conference had a packed programme which consisted of eight parallel sessions covering diverse topics that threw a panorama in the field of work and employment relations during the post-covid era, including exploitation, labour migration, HRM, gig economy, female employment, sustainability etc. All sessions were chaired by the CERIC PGRs. The three award winners for the excellent presentations are: | | | 1st Prize:
Bianca Mirea
(University of Leeds) Working Towards an Aspirational Future: Translators' Perceptions of Job Quality and Career Mobility in the Platform Economy | | | | | | 2nd Prize:
Sanjukta Choudhury (University of Nottingham)
A DeleuzoGuattarian Exploration of Hybrid-Working Practices of Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration | | | | | | 3rd Prize:
Lilith Brouwers
(University of Leeds) Conceptualising wider work relations: why non-managerial third parties in sex work matter | | | | | On the 4th of July 2022 we had a very productive Away Day in the most welcoming and accommodating NEXUS building. The event took place in a hybrid format and gave our team the opportunity to reflect on our strengths and weaknesses, update colleagues on the ongoing research projects and planned applications, review internal processes and centre activities. The special focus of the day was on making CERIC research impactful. | | | | | | | | Dr Biao Xiang(Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) | | | | | | | | | | - Professors Jenny Tomlinson and Mark Stuart have secured an Australian Research Council Discovery grant (value $450,000 AUS) to understand gender inequalities in the post-pandemic future of work, working with the University of Sydney, and colleagues in Japan.
- Professor Irena Grugulis, together with Kate Nash and David Lee, was awarded an AHRC/SiGN Research Centre grant of £50,000 for a project titled 'Enhancing the effectiveness of entry-level training in the screen industries through evaluation'.
- Dr Kate Hardy (Co-I) together with colleagues from SSP (Leeds), City and MMU has been awarded funding of £703,000 as part of the ESRC "Transforming Working Lives" Call. The study will revisit our knowledge about young women's early experiences of work and reconceptualise labour market entry. In doing so the study will advance understandings of how the work of very young workers, including that undertaken alongside learning, contributes to and embeds gendered inequality.
- Dr Charles Umney (PI) and Dr Gabriella Alberti (Co-I) have been successful in obtaining funding from the EU CHANCE scheme on the multi-country research: "The Humans In Digital Logistics (HuLog)" project exploring employer strategies and worker experiences of digitalisation in the Warehousing sector across 4 countries. The total value of the project is €1.5m Euros with £480k for the UK team, which will be funded through the ESRC. The research involves a consortium project of approx. 1.5m euros in total, featuring four partners in the UK, Belgium, Poland and Germany.
| | | Read the final report on a research project 'The worker voice in Just Transitions to a low-carbon economy: building evidenced-based policymaking in Yorkshire and the Humber'. The report was prepared to inform policymaking for building a regional 'just transition'. Just transition encompasses a range of social interventions needed to secure workers' rights and livelihoods when economies are shifting to sustainable production, primarily combating climate change. Working closely with the Y&H TUC Low-Carbon Taskforce, which includes unions and business leaders from regional carbon-intensive sectors, the research gathered data on the skills, employment and re-deployment needs facing workplaces implementing low-carbon transition plans. The survey of 2000 UK workers showed that the investment in skills and involvement of workers in decarbonisation programmes early on is a key recipe for success. These findings have particular relevance to policymakers, business and trade unions. The final report from the " Childcare during COVID-19" project was launched - a major study examining the effect of the pandemic on the early years' sector, its workforce and the families who rely on it. Drawing on two waves of surveys with 5,542 responses and 321 interviews with 197 participants including nursery managers and workers, childminders, nannies, parents and grandparents. The findings demonstrate the financial pressures experienced within the sector, their uneven impact and the ways in which the pandemic has exacerbated existing intra- and inter-household inequalities. 160 people were at the launch of the report, the session was addressed by Helen Hayes MP, Shadow Secretary for Children and Early Years, and Ellen Broomé, Managing Director, Coram Family and Childcare Trust. On the ESRC funded Labour Mobility in Transitions project, the team has designed an original survey which will be launched in June, following a tendering process for the administration of the survey. The survey will gather responses from 1,600 employers in the hospitality, transport and warehousing, food and drink manufacturing and social care sectors. The survey will look at their workforce strategies in the context of Brexit and Covid-19. Results from the survey are expected later this year. The report for International Labour Organization titled 'A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms' (authors: Vera Trappmann, Mark Stuart, Denis Neumann, Simon Joyce, Charles Umney and Ioulia Bessa) has been published. It analyses 1271 instances of protest by platform workers from around the world. Platform workers are organising in increasing numbers globally, and the report contains a lot of info on how, why and where they do so. Read the report. | | | | | | Dr Gabriella Alberti has signed a book contract with Bristol University Press for a manuscript entitled: "The Politics of Migrant Labour: Organising Everyday Work and Social Reproduction" co-authored with Professor Devi Sacchetto (University of Padua). The Book will be published at the end of 2023. | | | | | Alakärppä O, Sevón E, Norman H, Rönkä A. 2022. Young women's contradictory expectations and their perceived capabilities for future work-family reconciliation in Finland. Journal of Youth Studies.
Al Otaibi SM, Amin M, Winterton J, Bolt EET, Cafferkey K. 2022. The role of empowering leadership and psychological empowerment on nurses' work engagement and affective commitment. International Journal of Organizational Analysis.
Bolt EET, Winterton J, Cafferkey K. 2022. A Century of Labour Turnover Research: A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Management Reviews.
Charlwood A, Guenole N. 2022. Can HR adapt to the paradoxes of artificial intelligence?. Human Resource Management Journal.
Cole M, Stuart M, Hardy K, Spencer DA. 2022. Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour-Time. Work, Employment and Society.
Edwards M, Charlwood A. 2022. HR Analytics: An emerging field finding its place in the world alongside simmering ethical challenges. Human Resource Management Journal.
Islam A. 2022. Work-from/at/for-home: CoVID-19 and the future of work – A critical review. Geoforum. 128, pp. 33-36
Joyce S, Stuart M, Forde C. 2022. Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy. New Technology, Work and Employment.
Kapasi I. 2022. How university internships benefit microbusiness owners: Beyond anticipated value. Industry and Higher Education.
Lizé W, Greer I, Umney C. 2022. Artistic work intermediaries as industrial relations institutions: The case of musicians. Economic and Industrial Democracy. 793-809 43.2
Marks, A., & Terry, E. 2022. Examining 'dirty work' using an analysis of place and territorial stigma: low-income communities and the home credit sector. Work in the Global Economy.
Spencer D. 2022. A four-day working week: Its role in a politics of work. Political Quarterly.
Spencer D, Stuart M, Forde C, McLachlan C. 2022. Furloughing and COVID-19: Assessing Regulatory Reform of the State. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
Valizade D, Cook H, Forde C, Mackenzie R. 2022. Are bargaining concessions inevitable in recessions? An empirical investigation into union bargaining priorities and trade-offs of pay rises for job security. Employee Relations.
Valizade D, Ali M, Stuart M. 2022. Inequalities in the disruption of paid work during the Covid-19 pandemic: A world systems analysis of core, semi-periphery, and periphery states. Industrial Relations.
Vanchugova D, Norman H, Elliot M. 2022. Measuring the Association between Fathers' Involvement and Risky Behaviours in Adolescence. Social Science Research. | | | An article published by the I reported on findings from a study co-authored by Dr Helen Norman on parental involvement and its effects on education. | | | | | | | | | Professor Jane Holgate was featured in the Daily Telegraph on 25 April 2022, commenting on unions asserting their power over companies due to the cost-of-living crisis. | | | | | | | | | A Harvard Business Review article co-authored by research fellow Esme Terry was cited in a discussion of the new trial of the four-day working week in Britain. | | | | | | | | The article explores how childcare settings should strengthen their connection to local parents in a shifting landscape post-pandemic. | | | | | | | On 13 June, Dr Jana Javornik commented in an article published by RTV Slovenia titled 'Can trade unions, employers and politics reach consensus on part-time work?' | | | | | | | | | Professor Jonathan Winterton spoke about the current railway strikes and the legality of hiring agency staff to provide temporary cover during a strike. | | | | | | | | | | Earlier this year, a number of our colleagues presented at the 40th International Labour Process Conference in Padua, Italy. Here you can listen to some of them discuss the presentations they gave. How personal histories impact our expectations of working life Professor Vera Trappmann and Dr Charles Umney talk about their research on how emotional factors in a person's past can influence their work orientation and different expectations of working life. Filipino migrant workers in Malaysia - trajectories of undocumented labour Professor Chris Forde speaks to Professor Jonathan Winterton about Jonathan's work exploring Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) in Malaysia. They discuss the motives for Filipinos to become migrant workers, the role of the regulatory framework and agents, and the multiple trajectories of exploitation. Why the music industry won't be "Uberized" Dr Charles Umney and Dr Dario Azzellini discuss the limits to the platform economy, and why many occupations are unlikely to be 'Uberized', using live music industry as an example. | | | | | | Dr James Brooks is joined by his colleagues, Professor Irena Grugulis and Dr Hugh Cook, to discuss their paper - Rethinking Situated Learning: Participation and Communities of Practice in the UK Fire and Rescue Service. They discuss what is meant by communities of practice, key findings from their research with the UK Fire and Rescue Service about the process of learning, and practical recommendations from their research. | | | | | In this introductory episode, Dr Gabriella Alberti and Dr Jo Cutter talk about their three-year research project investigating the impact of the post-Brexit regulation migration for work on the UK labour market. The project looks at how employers and workers shape these mobility transitions and how they engage in dialogue with each other and with other stakeholders. It also considers how COVID-19 has impacted these transitions and dialogue. | | | | | | | | | | Dr Danat Valizade and Dr Manhal Ali discuss their paper on the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for global inequalities in work and employment. | | | | | In this introductory episode of the Data Observatory podcast series, Professor Chris Forde (Leeds University Business School) and Dr Emma Russell (University of Sussex) talk about the ESRC-funded Digital Futures at Work (Digit) Research Centre and its main research themes, what the Data Observatory is for, and how it can benefit other researchers, policymakers and wider society. | | | | | | | 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. | | |
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