Working Lives Research Institute
Senior Research Fellow
Christine worked as carpenter and joiner and trade trainer before studying architecture. Between 1993 and 2000 she was Senior Research Fellow with the Education, Training and Labour Market Research Group, at the University of Westminster. While at the University of Westminster she researched and published widely on the European construction industries focussing on workplace skills, employment, training and the role of women. She left Westminster to study for her doctorate at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, completed in May 2004. Between February 2004 and January 2008 Christine worked on the ESRC funded project 'Does Work Still Shape Social Identity and Action?' part of the ESRC Social Identities Programme, www.identities.org.uk.
Christine’s doctoral thesis, New ways of building: architects, operatives and industrialised production in Britain 1940-70, investigated the nature of work for architects and building workers during a period of rapid technical and organisational change. This involved an analysis of changes in the understanding of skill and craft, and in post-war education and training policies. Her research interests include; the social and cultural history of the construction industry, and visual and oral histories of work.
C.Wall@westminster.ac.uk
Dr. Christine Wall
Senior Research Fellow
ProBE
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
University of Westminster
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London
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2008
Work, Identity and Social Action: Teachers, Railway Workers and Bank Workers, 1910-2009, Palgrave, forthcoming (with John Kirk).
2004
Women in Construction, Reed International (with L. Clarke, E. F. Pedersen, E. Michielsens, B. Susman).
1998
A blueprint for change: Construction skills training in Britain’, The Policy Press, (with Linda Clarke).
1997
A Fair Day's Work - Women in the Direct Labour Organisations, Women and Manual Trades (London) and Association of Direct Labour Organisations, (with Elisabeth Michielsens and L. Clarke).
1996
Skills and the construction process. A comparative study of vocational training and quality in social housebuilding, The Policy Press, (with L. Clarke).
Staying Power. Women in Direct Building Teams, Women and Manual Trades, London, (with L. Clarke).
2008
2006
‘Omitted from history: women in the building trades’ in Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Construction History, Volume 1, Construction History Society (with L. Clarke).
‘Women in Manual Trades’, in A. W. Gale and M. J. Davidson (eds.) Managing Diversity in the Construction Sector, Spon Press Taylor and Francis (with L.Clarke and E. Michielsons).
2004
‘Any Woman Can: twenty years of campaigning for access to training and employment’, in Women in Construction, Reed International.
‘Now you’re in now you’re out. Women’s changing participation in the construction trades in Britain’, in Women in Construction, Reed International. (with L.Clarke)
2000
‘Diverse equality: the example of the construction sector’ in Mike Noon & Emmanuel Ogbonna (eds.) Equality, Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment, Macmillan. (with L. Clarke and E. Michielsons)
2008
‘Picturing an Occupational Identity: images of teachers in careers and trade union publications 1940-2000’ History of Education, vol. 37, No.2, 317-340.
2000
‘Craft versus Industry; the division of labour in European housing construction’, Construction Management and Economics 18, 689-698. (with L. Clarke)
1999
‘Balancing acts in construction: a study of two women painters in Denmark and Britain’, NORA, Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies Nos. 2-3, v7, 138-150. (with L. Clarke and Elsebet F. Pedersen)
1998
‘UK construction skills in the context of European developments’, Construction Management and Economics 16, 553-67. (with L. Clarke)
2008
'Integrating the visual: photographs and memorabilia in the representation of work identities', Does Work Still Shape Social Identity and Action? Seminar, The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, July 16th.
‘Work memorabilia in oral histories of work’, at Re-thinking Labour: Labour, Affect and Material Culture, The Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, 18-29 April 2008.
2007
‘The use of photographs in eliciting work-life histories: a tool for international comparisons?’ at Journees Internationales Sociologie Du Travail - the Biennial French Sociology of Work Conference (JIST), London Metropolitan University, London, June 20-22, 2007.
‘Memories of Work: Exploring Identities through Visual and Oral Approaches’ open seminar, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, Nov. 7th, 2007 (with John Kirk)
2006
‘The iconography of post-war careers’, BSA Annual Conference, Harrogate.
‘Visual sources of identity in post-war teaching’, History of Education Student’s Conference, Institute of Education, May.
‘Women in the British Building Industry’, Gender and Class Revisited Conference, Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University.
Keynote Address: ‘Omitted from History:Women in the Building Industry’, International Construction History Society Conference, Queen’s College, Cambridge. (with Linda Clarke).
2005
‘Using visual sources: a methodological appraisal’, ESRC Fellows Day, Open University, Milton Keynes
2004
‘Never Argue with the architect: hierarchy, skill and status on mid twentieth century building sites’, Institute of Contemporary British History Conference, ‘The History of Work’, July 14-16.
1998
‘Desegregating Construction’, Work, Employment & Society Conference, University of Cambridge, 14-16 September. (with Linda Clarke and Elisabeth Michielesens)
1997
CLR News 3 Women in Construction in Europe CLR- European Institute for Construction Labour Research, Brussels.
2006
Participant on Sandi Toksvig’s show on Radio London in relation to making of ‘Ladies Bridge’ film.
Researcher for and participant in ‘Ladies Bridge’ film successfully premiered at National Film Theatre to audience of over 450 in November 2006.
‘Resilience and loss in work identities: a narrative analysis of some retired teachers’ work-life histories,’ with John Kirk, (2007/8).
‘The Iconography of Working Life,’ (2007/8).
‘Work and Identity: A Historical and Sociological Review,’ Does work still shape social identities and action? Working Paper No. 2., (2006), with John Kirk, Tim Strangleman, Jane Martin, and Steve Jefferys.
‘Skills and Innovation in British House Building’ (1998) Working Paper 1 of EPSRC Project Standardisation and Skills’.