Working Lives Research Institute

Research Themes

Project Name

Ageing workforce

• Age Discrimination against older men: the experience of organisational and labour market employment bariers


• Age Discrimination against older women: the experience of labour market and wider barriers to employment participation


• Creative Approaches to Workforce Ageing (CAWA)


• ESF-CIA: Capitalising innovative approaches towards demographic change
  

Agency workers

• Representation of Agency Workers (RAW)
  
  
• Migrant and agency labour in the poultry and meat processing sector

Discrimination

• Age Discrimination against older men: the experience of organisational and labour market employment bariers


• Race Xenophobia in Trade Unions - racial and ethnic minorities, immigration and the role of trade unions in combating discrimination and xenophobia, in encouraging participation and in securing social inclusion and citizenship (RITU)


• Comparing the Labour Market Discrimination experienced by refugee & BME communities


• Hotel & Catering Industry HE-ESF - The experience of ethnic minority workers in the hotel and catering industry: routes to support and advice on workplace problems


• Tackling multiple discrimination and social exclusion at work: an examination of the intersection between gender, race, age and sexual orientation


• NUT Equality project: Fairer Futures: Putting Equal Opportunities at
  the Heart of NUT Local Structures


• BME Recruitment and Employment in the Audio Visual Sector in London

• Career pathways for BME workers in London's Audio-Visual Industry (OFCOM)
  

• Disadvantage, Disengagement, Discrimination in London's Labour market (3Ds)


• Age Discrimination against older women: the experience of labour market and wider barriers to employment participation


• Holocaust Biography research project


• Construction industry in London and Diversity performance


• RCN - BME nurses and IRNs - the experiences of UK trained BME nurses and internationally recruited nurses


• CRE Multiculturalism in Secondary Schools


• The Impact of Religion on Trade Union Relations with Black Workers


• Employment of young people and school children
  
  
• Ethnic Minority Representation at Work (EMRAW)
  

• Integration in the workplace: A study of age, religion or belief and and sexual orientation

Employee Voice

• The impact of employee representation upon workplace industrial relations outcome


• A review of port-based Welfare Work for Seafarers from the Perspective of Port Welfare


• TUC Employment Relations


• ITF Port-based welfare workers for seafarers
  
  
• Ethnic Minority Representation at Work (EMRAW)
  

Gender

• Age Discrimination against older men: the experience of organisational and labour market employment bariers


• Tackling multiple discrimination and social exclusion at work: an examination of the intersection between gender, race, age and sexual orientation


• Age Discrimination against older women: the experience of labour market and wider barriers to employment participation

History

• Guinness was good for us - a record in words and pictures


• Holocaust Biography research project


• People's pathways to Northumberland Park, Tottenham


• The endangered archives of Sudanese Trade Unions (1899-2005)


• Space, place and the historical and contemporary articulations or regional, national and european identyties through work and community in areas undergoing economic restructuring and regeneration (SPHERE)
  

Identities

• Social Identities, ESRC: Does work still shape social identities and action?


• Guinness was good for us - a record in words and pictures


• People's pathways to Northumberland Park, Tottenham


• Space, place and the historical and contemporary articulations or regional, national and european identyties through work and community in areas undergoing economic restructuring and regeneration (SPHERE)
  
  
• Ethnic Minority Representation at Work (EMRAW)

Industrial Relations

• DTI New Voluntary Trade Union Recognition Agreements 1998 - 2003


• The role of Acas in trade union recognition claims under the Employment Relations Act 1999


• The Customer & Changes in Employment Relations (Client)


• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)


• The transferability of the French Social Model to Eastern Europe (DARES)


• European Foundation - EU Level Network


• The impact of employee representation upon workplace industrial relations outcome


• DTI WERS 04 Unorganised Workers


• Construction industry in London and Diversity performance


• DTI Facilitation: Facilitation of focus groups for workplace representatives for the Department of Trade and Industry


• Globalisation and industrial relations - information and consultation rights in some chemical TNCs (GLORI)


• TUC Employment Relations


• JIST 2007 - International days of work sociology


• Local government reform and social dialogue


• Regulating Outsourcing through Social Dialogue
  
• Social dialogue and the changing role of Conciliation, Arbitration Mediation Services in Europe (CAMS)

London

• BME Recruitment and Employment in the Audio Visual Sector in London

• Career pathways for BME workers in London's Audio-Visual Industry (OFCOM)


• Disadvantage, Disengagement, Discrimination in London's Labour market (3Ds)


• Guinness was good for us - a record in words and pictures


• CRE - BMEs in London printing and journalism industries


• People's pathways to Northumberland Park, Tottenham


• Construction industry in London and Diversity performance


• Haringy Labour Market (employment, skills, training needs of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants)
  

Migrant Workers

• Refugee Women Volunteers (LDA) - from volunteers to employees: a research project on paid and unpaid work in the voluntary sector and volunteering as a pathway into employment


• Unorganised workers, ESRC: routes to support views on representation


• Migrant Workers in the East of England


• HSE Migrant Workers - Migrant workers in England and Wales: an assessment of migrant worker health and safety risks


• CRE - BMEs in London printing and journalism industries


• People's pathways to Northumberland Park, Tottenham


• Cambridgeshire CC Migrants

• Undocumented Worker Transitions - documenting the lives of of undocumented workers in Europe (UWT)


• Haringy Labour Market (employment, skills, training needs of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants)


• ExDRA: Research project on the Significance of Migrant Workers


• Migrant and agency labour in the poultry and meat processing sector


• A qualitative study of employer use of migrant labour


• Representation of Agency Workers (RAW)


• Internationalisation and Innovation In The Service Sector: The Role Of International Migrants and UK (London) Hotels


• Ethnic Minority Representation at Work (EMRAW)


• Understanding the Operation and Management of Employment Agencies in the UK Labour Market


• Unison Migrant Workers
  
  
• Internationalisation and innovation in the service sector: The role of international migrants and UK (London) Hotels
  

Political Economy

• Grenoble Work and Performance


• DTI Labour Market Flexibility


• Work Organisation and Restructuring in the Knowledge Society (WORKS)


• The Customer & Changes in Employment Relations (Client)


• The transferability of the French Social Model to Eastern Europe (DARES)


• Privatisation of public services and the impact on quality, employment and productivity (PIQUE)


• Socially responsible restructuring in accession countries. Promotion of the social partners role to anticipate and accompany consequences at regional level.


• Innovative Restructuring - European Networks of Experts (IRENE)


• Health in Restructuring: Innovative Approaches and Policy Recommendations (HIRES)
  
  
• Health in Restructuring (HIRES +)


• Regulating Outsourcing through Social Dialogue


• Restructuring in the Electricity Industry (RITE)
  

Productivity

• DTI Labour Market Flexibility


• Privatisation of public services and the impact on quality, employment and productivity (PIQUE)

Racism

• Race Xenophobia in Trade Unions - racial and ethnic minorities, immigration and the role of trade unions in combating discrimination and xenophobia, in encouraging participation and in securing social inclusion and citizenship (RITU)


• Comparing the Labour Market Discrimination experienced by refugee & BME communities


• Hotel & Catering Industry HE-ESF - The experience of ethnic minority workers in the hotel and catering industry: routes to support and advice on workplace problems


• Tackling multiple discrimination and social exclusion at work: an examination of the intersection between gender, race, age and sexual orientation


• BME Recruitment and Employment in the Audio Visual Sector in London

• Career pathways for BME workers in London's Audio-Visual Industry (OFCOM)


• EUMC Racism Research 2004


• Disadvantage, Disengagement, Discrimination in London's Labour market (3Ds)


• CRE - BMEs in London printing and journalism industries


• Holocaust Biography research project


• Construction industry in London and Diversity performance


• RCN - BME nurses and IRNs - the experiences of UK trained BME nurses and internationally recruited nurses


• CRE Multiculturalism in Secondary Schools


• The Impact of Religion on Trade Union Relations with Black Workers
  
  
• Ethnic Minority Representation at Work (EMRAW)

Refugees

• Refugee Women Volunteers (LDA) - from volunteers to employees: a research project on paid and unpaid work in the voluntary sector and volunteering as a pathway into employment


• Comparing the Labour Market Discrimination experienced by refugee & BME communities


• Hotel & Catering Industry HE-ESF - The experience of ethnic minority workers in the hotel and catering industry: routes to support and advice on workplace problems


• Undocumented Worker Transitions - documenting the lives of of undocumented workers in Europe (UWT)


• Haringy Labour Market (employment, skills, training needs of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants)

Remuneration

• Refugee Women Volunteers (LDA) - from volunteers to employees: a research project on paid and unpaid work in the voluntary sector and volunteering as a pathway into employment

Restructuring

• Work Organisation and Restructuring in the Knowledge Society (WORKS)


• Monitoring Innovative Restructuring in Europe (MIRE)


• Socially responsible restructuring in accession countries. Promotion of the social partners role to anticipate and accompany consequences at regional level.


• Innovative Restructuring - European Networks of Experts (IRENE)


• Health in Restructuring: Innovative Approaches and Policy Recommendations (HIRES)


• Regulating Outsourcing through Social Dialogue


• Restructuring in the Electricity Industry (RITE)

Skills

• Disadvantage, Disengagement, Discrimination in London's Labour market (3Ds)


• A review of port-based Welfare Work for Seafarers from the Perspective of Port Welfare


• Space, place and the historical and contemporary articulations or regional, national and european identyties through work and community in areas undergoing economic restructuring and regeneration (SPHERE)
  

Small and medium sized firms

• Representation and voice in small and medium sized European enterprises: monitoring actors, labour organisations and legal frameworks (SMALL)


• Internationalisation and Innovation In The Service Sector: The Role Of International Migrants and UK (London) Hotels

Sustainability

• Environmental Training for Trade Unionists (ETTU)


• The Quality of Working Life 

• SOLUTIONS for ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRASTS in COASTAL AREAS (SECOA)

Trade Unions

• Environmental Training for Trade Unionists (ETTU)


• Industrial Democracy in Britain and France


• Representation and voice in small and medium sized European enterprises: monitoring actors, labour organisations and legal frameworks (SMALL)


• Race Xenophobia in Trade Unions - racial and ethnic minorities, immigration and the role of trade unions in combating discrimination and xenophobia, in encouraging participation and in securing social inclusion and citizenship (RITU)


• DTI New Voluntary Trade Union Recognition Agreements 1998 - 2003


• TUL: Evaluation of UK's Union Learning Fund and its impact upon UK employers and Government Employment Policies


• Passeport Europeen de Compentences Syndicales - European Passport of Union Competences (PECS)


• Unorganised workers, ESRC: routes to support views on representation


• Trade Union Research Project (TURP)


• Union learning in the CWU


• NUT Equality project: Fairer Futures: Putting Equal Opportunities at
  the Heart of NUT Local Structures


• DTI WERS 04 Unorganised Workers


• The Impact of Religion on Trade Union Relations with Black Workers


• The endangered archives of Sudanese Trade Unions (1899-2005)


• TUC JUST Transition project


• The Quality of Working Life


• Measuring the Organising Outcomes of Union Learning


• PCS Trade Union Education Review


• TUC Employment Relations


• Ethnic Minority Representation at Work (EMRAW)


• Understanding the Operation and Management of Employment Agencies in the UK Labour Market


• Unison Migrant Workers
  

Union learning

• TUL: Evaluation of UK's Union Learning Fund and its impact upon UK employers and Government Employment Policies


• Measuring the Organising Outcomes of Union Learning


• PCS Trade Union Education Review


• European Works Council learning from experience (ELEX)