employment studies research group
The Employment Research Studies group has developed a broad programme of research that has encompassed key themes such as:
- globalisation and the changing form of employment relations in international industries
- the changing nature of human resource management in the context of organisational restructuring and the re-regulation of labour markets
- worker representation and trade union strategies of renewal and revitalisation
The group has a strong international reputation for innovative work on research themes that are central to the development of the field and its wider implications for policy makers and practitioners. There is a very pronounced interdisciplinary and multi-method emphasis through the group's research, with a strong commitment to comparative and international empirical studies.
Members publish in key international journals in the field such as the British Journal of International Relations, Employment and Society, Industrial Relations Journal and Organisation Studies. Professor Poole is the founding editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management and Professor Heery is Chief Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Members are also engaged in a variety of academic and policy-related networks.
Professors Heery and Turnbull have served as advisors to the Trades Union
Congress and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) respectively,
while Professor Whitfield has served as academic representative on the
Work and Employment Research Survey 2004 steering group.