The ESRC’s Work, Education and Skills (WES) team are exploring the potential shape of a new research agenda in our portfolio space.

We are very keen to hear from the academic, policy, business, and third-sector communities about what you think will be the big persistent and future challenges over the coming decades in the following priority areas:

• Work: a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable labour force and market
• Education: societal impacts on educational provision, educational inequalities, special education needs and disability, and skills for life.

For full details and the opportunity to submit your ideas, please go to our online survey ‘ESRC horizon-scanning survey: Work, Education and Skills’ hosted on the UKRI Engagement Hub.

The survey closes on Friday 1^st December.

Link to survey: https://engagementhub.ukri.org/esrc-1/weshorizonscanningsurvey

The next ILERA Council meeting will take place on Friday, June 27 2024 at 4:15pm EST during the upcoming 20^th ILERA World Congress, to be held in person in New York City (at the NYC mid-town Hilton Hotel) between 26 and 29 June.

The Council will elect the next President-elect of ILERA as well as Executive Committee members for vacant positions.

At the conclusion of the 20^th ILERA World Congress, Professor Harry Katz from the US will step down as President of ILERA, and Professor Rae Cooper from the Australia, the current President-elect, will assume the role as President of ILERA.

Nominations are invited for the next President-elect of ILERA.

The next President-elect of ILERA will assume the role as President at the conclusion of the 20^th ILERA World Congress in 2024, and serve a three-year-term and be responsible for the organisation of the 21^st ILERA World Congress in 2027.

In selecting the President-elect, the nominee’s engagement in ILERA and contributions to the field of labour and employment relations is of importance, as well as the capacity to organise a World Congress. Furthermore, geographical rotation and gender equality will be taken into account.

Nominations are invited for members of the ILERA Executive Committee for the period 2024–2027.

There are vacant positions representing the African, Asian and European regions.

The Executive Committee of ILERA is responsible for determining the programme of the Association, subject to such guidance or instruction as it may receive from the Council.

HOW TO NOMINATE
Letters of nominations should be accompanied by the nominee’s résumé/curriculum vitae or by a substantial account of the accomplishments of the nominee, including his/her engagement in ILERA, and should be sent to the ILERA Secretariat at ilera@ilo.org.

Deadline for nominations: 23 April 2024

The Marchington Research Grant supports exceptional early career researchers in HR and related fields. It follows an annual cycle, awarding up to 3 grants of £6,000 each.  Apply by 22 January 2024 to be considered for the 2024 grant.

https://www.cipd.org/uk/get-involved/research-opportunities/marchington-research-grant/

24 November 2023, 10:30am-4pm  

The University of Leicester main campus and via Teams. Free registration at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/futureofwork/1053494

Britain has, over the past year and a half, experienced its highest level of strike action since the 1980s. There have been similar upsurges in industrial action in many other countries, including France, Portugal and the US. This inaugural research event of the new Future of Work research cluster at the University of Leicester, will discuss the implications of the recent rise in strike action for the theory and practice of industrial relations.

The event will consist of two panels and is open to academics and to all those with an interest in work, employment and industrial relations.

Session 1: The strike wave in Britain and its implications (11:00-12:45)  

With Professor Jane Holgate (University of Leeds) and Professor Ralph Darlington (Salford University)

Session 2: Surveying the terrain, strikes in the US, France and beyond (13:45-15:30)  

With Eric Blanc (Rutgers, US) and Kevin Guillas-Cavan (IRES, France), and Lisa Sezer (Leicester) as discussant.

The event will be in a hybrid format: in person on the main campus of the University of Leicester and via Teams online. Once registered, you will be sent venue details or a link for Teams as appropriate.

Speaker details: 

Jane Holgate is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence (Pluto, 2021) and co-editor of Union Voices: Developing Organizing in the UK (Ithaca, 2012). She has held a number of positions in the trade union movement and has worked on research projects with trade unions, including the GMB, TGWU, CWU, Bectu, Usdaw and the Trades Union Congress.

Ralph Darlington is Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations at Salford University, Fellow and Honorary Member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association. He is editor of What’s the Point of Industrial Relations: In Defence of Critical Social Science (BUIRA, 2009), and author of Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism (Haymarket, 2013), Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain 1972 (Bookmarks, 2001, with Dave Lyddon), and Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14 (Pluto, 2023).

Eric Blanc is an assistant professor of labour studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso, 2019) and Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire, 1882-1917 (Haymarket, 2022).

Kevin Guillas-Cavan is an economist working in Paris at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (IRES). His studies focus on industrial relations and trade union strategy, especially at the firm level.

Lisa Sezer is a lecturer in work and employment at the University of Leicester School of Business and a member of the Future of Work research cluster.

For further information, please email Joseph Choonara (jc770@le.ac.uk).

https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/future-of-work

Date and Time: Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00 – 15:30

Speaker: Mat Johnson, Senior lecturer in Employment Studies, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester.

Title: Decent work and the city: Regulation from above and below (Abstract attached)

Location: The seminar will be hybrid (In-person at WBS room 1.001 and Online via Zoom). Please email Louise Cullen (irruoffice@wbs.ac.uk) if you are attending in-person (for security purposes and entry in the WBS building).

Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irru-202324-speaker-series-with-mat-johnson-tickets-754621562407?aff=oddtdtcreator

You are cordially invited to the upcoming seminar on The government’s new anti-strike legislation between 14:00-16:00, Wednesday 22^nd November in HH102 Hamilton House.The Government’s New Anti-Strike Legislation The Government’s New Anti-Strike Legislat

Please find the details below and on this Eventbrite link. We would be delighted if you could join us for a timely discussion about the legal changes and the reasons behind the anti-strike legislation as well as trade union responses to the new law. Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

CREW Seminar: The government’s new anti-strike legislation

Date and time: 14:00-16:00, Wednesday 22^nd November 2023

CREW Seminar: The Government’s New Anti-Strike Legislation The minimum service levels law explained.  The theory behind it and the trade union response. www.eventbrite.co.uk

 

Digital Transformations of Work and Employment in the Professions

A BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event

24^th January 2024 (09:30-17:00)

Leeds University Business School, Leeds, LS2 9JT

ECRs and PGRs researching digital change in professional work are invited to submit an abstract for this event to be held in January 2024 at Leeds University Business School (rescheduled from September due to industrial action).

The event is designed to be a development session for papers in progress with opportunities to present your paper, receive feedback, give feedback to peers, and hear from journal editors about getting published. There will also be a roundtable session featuring guest speakers from industry and academia.

The 500 word abstract deadline is **22^nd November**.

For more information and details of how to submit your abstract, please visit:

https://britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/digital-transformations-of-work-and-employment-in-the-professions/

6^th International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts (IASSC) Conference

Supported by LO Norway; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung;

Sothern Centre for Inequality Studies, Wits University

Workers’ World Media Productions

Cape Town, South Africa 5-7 February 2024

https://iassc-net.org/index.php/news/call-for-papers-6th-iassc-conference-cape-town-february-2024

Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in the IASSC’s journal Workers of the World

https://workersoftheworld.net

Date and Time: Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00 – 15:30

Speaker: Federica De Stefano, Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources, HEC Paris

Title: Building the Right Project Portfolio: Career Consequences of Content and Collaboration Specialization (Abstract attached)

Location: The seminar will be hybrid (In-person at WBS room 1.001 and Online via Zoom). Please email Louise Cullen (irruoffice@wbs.ac.uk) if you are attending in-person (for security purposes and entry in the WBS building).

Register:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irru-202324-speaker-series-with-federica-de-stefano-tickets-740061522937?aff=oddtdtcreator (Ticket sales are limited to 25, please email louise.cullen@wbs.ac.uk should you try to register and are told that tickets are sold out).

Guest Editors: Martí López-Andreu (Newcastle University), Jon Las  Heras (Basque Country University), Beltrán Roca (University of  Cádiz) and Davide Però (Nottingham University) WES Editor: Prof Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven)

Deadlines: Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2024