The Centre for Research in Employment and Equality Law (CREEL) is a new research centre located within the Working Lives Research Institute (WLRI) at London Metropolitan University. CREEL aims to:
Promote an understanding of the relationship between the law and workplace practice, in particular by focusing on advances in employment and equality law. Equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes in the workplace are a key area addressed and CREEL promotes an understanding of the extent to which legislation promotes workplace equality and diversity or can be used to do so.
Encourage an inter-disciplinary approach, by facilitating the exchange of ideas and information between lawyer and non-lawyer academics, to foster a better understanding of developments in industrial relations.
Promote exchanges between academics and practitioners (HR managers, lawyers, trade unionists) in the field of employment and equality law, so that they can share information and contribute to a greater understanding of workplace culture.
CREEL organises a annual programme of employment law seminars. These are addressed by leading legal experts in employment and equality law and provide a forum for debate and discussion between academics and practitioners. It also undertakes to disseminate information on the law and legal developments, primarily to an industrial relations audience. It encourages and supports cross-disciplinary research, which has a focus on employment and equality law.
Dr Sonia McKay, a principal research fellow, based at WLRI, heads CREEL. Principal members of CREEL are Linda Johnson, Subject Field Director of Business and Business Law, Department of Business and Service Sector Management, London Metropolitan University and Dr Sian Moore, Principal research fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute.
CREEL is supported by the Business and Service Sector Management Department at the university the Centre for Equality Research in Business and the Centre for Trade Union Studies, all at London Metropolitan University. The Institute of Employment Rights, the Oxford Centre for Migration Studies and Thompsons Solicitors, London, are external CREEL supporters.
