Working Lives Research Institute
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Professor John Kirk died on November 3 aged 53 after a long battle against a brain tumour. His keen intellect, socialist commitment and personal warmth are deeply missed. A meeting on ‘Class and Identity in Today’s Europe’ is taking place in his memory on Thursday March 31 at 5pm at the Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street London E1 7NT, followed by a book launch of his latest joint-authored book, ‘Work and Identity’. Colleagues at the Working Lives Research Institute, research colleagues from elsewhere in Europe and students reflect on the impact he made on them in messages they sent to his partner, Alison Campbell, to whom we extend our full support… read more
Acas has just published a research paper prepared by an EU DG Employment funded project on European trends in individual and collective conflict conciliation. The project was coordinated by the WLRI who also carried out the research in the UK and in France. Read more here.
The latest issue of WLRI's Electronic newsletter is out now. Read examples of old issues here, and subscribe to our mailing list to get all future issues here.
We continue to expand our teaching programmes at WLRI, and are delighted to announce a new Masters in Work and Social Change. Read more here.
WLRI moved into the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (FASS) on 1st August 2010. Read more here.
WLRI, as a partner in a consortium of seven European institutions, coordinated by the European University Institute in Florence, has been awarded research funding by the European Integration Fund for Third Country Nationals. Read more here.
As part of our burgeoning partnership with WEA London Region's Trade Union Studies Centre, we are happy to direct you to their core reps programme. Read more here.
The Nuffield Foundation have awarded WLRI a grant to carry out research with the self-organised migrant domestic workers' group Justice 4 Domestic Workers. Read more here.
The latest issue of WLRI's Electronic newsletter is out now. Read examples of old issues by going here, and subscribe to our mailing list to get all future issues here.
. …You don’t eat, your children eat. They get their dinner every night. You make sacrifices, you don’t mind, you have to, but sacrifices are where you make their dinners and you put them down and you watch them eat it. Read the full report.
The website is based on an exhibition “Striking Women: Voices of South Asian women workers from Grunwick and Gate Gourmet”. Read the full report.
The research on Ethnic Minority Representation at Work has recently completed interviews with 185 workers who have had problems at work... Read the full report.
On 22 March 2010 the Working Lives Research Institute held a successful seminar in Madrid as part of the Mapping study on trade union practices in fighting discrimination and promoting diversity, commissioned by the European Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities... Read the full report.
Allan Williams, together with Gareth Shaw and Adrian Bailey from the University of Exeter, has been awarded a grant of £2,150 from ESRC's Advanced Institute of Management to hold a capacity building workshop on April 28th for early career researchers on the theme of innovation in the tourism and hospitality industries. Read the full report.
The first intake of students started the Professional Doctorate in Researching Work yesterday, Thursday 28 January, at Working Lives... Read the full story.
WLRI has had another thriving year, which we summarise for you in our Annual Report, 2009... Read the full story.
Images of working lives is an exhibition held as part of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project conducted by Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University to highlight the working conditions of an ‘invisible’ community, Kurdish Diaspora, in London.
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We would like to invite you to a photography exhibition 'Images of Working Lives', the exhibition will be on for a week starting Monday 19th July 2010 at 4pm.
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Don Flynn will be talking about his experience of building up the evidence base and advocacy work amongst migrants Friday 9 July 2010.
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We would like to invite you to participate on our international conference called “ESF 6 CIA - Capitalising Innovative Approaches”, to be held in Pécs (Hungary) in Corso Hotel **** (8. Koller, Pécs 7626), 2 June 2010 (Wednesday).
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'The Contradictions of Humanitarian Intervention’ with Professor Mike Newman, and 'The construction of Muslim and Irish communities as 'suspect' in Britain 1974-2007: representations and experiences', Dr Lyn Thomas: Friday 21st May, 12.15 and 3.30pm.
The Institute of Employment and Rights is hosting a conference, entiltled The Health Agenda at Work on Wednesday 17th February 2010 at NUT Hamilton Place, London
The Centre for Parliamentary Studies is hosting forthcoming International Symposium, entitled Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Migrants: Developing a Comprehensive EU-Wide Strategy, on Thursday 28th January 2010 at The Renaissance Hotel, Brussels.