The University of Sydney is currently hiring for the following two education-focused positions at Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor levels:

• Senior Lecturer in Technology and the Future of Work (Education Focused) (Level C)
• Associate Professor in Managing People and Organisations (Education Focused) (Level D)

The positions will be based in the Work and Organisational Studies (WOS) Discipline within The University of Sydney Business School is a progressive and engaged Discipline and home to over 20 leading international scholars and outstanding professional staff.  WOS researchers are particularly active in the fields of employment and industrial relations, gender and work, labour regulation, human resource management and organisational behaviour. We use both qualitative and quantitative research methods and publish in top disciplinary journals. Our research has national and international significance and policy impact and informs our teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

• Full time continuing academic Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Education Focused) positions at The University of Sydney
• Opportunity for the best and brightest talented educators to be part of our future at the Sydney Business School
• Base Salary Level C/D $145,023 p.a. – $192,371 p.a. + 17% superannuation + access to up to AUD$30K to support education-related activities, including education-related research and education-related professional development and learning
• Applications Close: Monday 15 April 2024 11:59 PM AEST

For more details and to apply, please click here. If you have any questions about the role, you can contact Professor Anya Johnson, Head of the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at anya.johnson@sydney.edu.au, or Associate Professor Chris F Wright, Deputy Head the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at chris.f.wright@sydney.edu.au

16^th of April 2024, 5.30 to 7pm online

Free attendance, please register here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/women-and-employment

The UK is the twelfth wealthiest country in the world, measured per capita. But it also has high levels of wealth and income inequality and high gender wealth and earnings gaps. The UN’s human development index put the UK in eighteenth place in 2003, and the gender equality index put it in twenty seventh place.

In several respects, the story of women’s employment in the UK since the 1990s is one of success: the employment gap and working time gap between men and women have both narrowed, as has the gender pay gap. Yet although the decades it would take for average women’s pay to reach men’s has decreased during that time, it remains dauntingly high.

Policy on women and employment was active (but contentious) during the New Labour years, and the unfinished agenda continued for some years subsequently, before stalling after 2016. During the years of active policy, however, the single policy output with the biggest impact on the gender pay gap (the National Minimum Wage) did not target women as a specific group of wage earners. In this seminar, which will launch a series of events focusing on different aspects of policy relating to women and employment, we will review the development of policy over the last three decades and ask why it has proved so difficult to make progress towards a more gender-equal society.

Keynote speaker: Professor Susan Milner, University of Bath.

Discussants: Caroline Waters OBE, former Deputy Chair of the EHRC and Vice Chair of Carers UK; Kay Carberry CBE, former Assistant General Secretary at the TUC and Commissioner on the Women and Work Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Chair: Sarah Veale CBE, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights, TUC and former Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Technological Change, Power and Work

Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 July 2024
Deadline for complete paper submissions: 28 February 2025

Please join us for this Webinar hosted by the Diversity Interest Group and Centre for Research on Employment and Work.

Speakers:

Understanding Allyship

Dr Anna Kane is a Chartered Occupational and Coaching Psychologist and founder of Zest Psychology. She will share recent research “Understanding Allyship” conducted in partnership with Dr. Lilith Whiley, University of Sussex. An interactive session to illustrate the evidence synthesis of equality, diversity and inclusion within the NHS. Discover how interventions, practices and organisational processes are informed, inhibited and enabled.

Allyship, in research and in practice

Dr Rebecca Smith, Associate Professor and Institute of Lifecourse Development Practice Lead, School of Human Science University of Greenwich.

ENTRAL LONDON BUIRA SEMINAR:
Thursday 25 April 2024, 16.00 – 18.00
Brady Arts and Community Centre (Side Hall)
192-196 Hanbury Street, London E1 5HU
(5 minutes’ walk from Whitechapel Station and 10 minutes from Aldgate East and Liverpool Street)

The rights of garment workers
Dr Alessandra Mezzadri (SOAS) The Social Life of Industrial Disputes in India’s Sweatshop Regime
Tyrone Scott (War on Want) on Securing Justice for Garment Workers: the need for global solidarity
Accompanying the exhibition of the late Larry Herman’s “Garment Workers” photographs

For further details and to reserve a place, contact Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk)
This London BUIRA (British Universities Industrial Relations Association https://www.buira.net) seminar is the first to take place outsider the University of Westminster, and to present a visual reality through the powerful photographs of Larry Herman. We are fortunate to have two expert speakers on the rights of garment workers, so providing an opportunity to air and discuss the problems confronting garment workers in an open forum and to consider their implications for industrial relations. Anyone interested is welcome to attend this event. Refreshments will be served, with drinks and nibbles at the end.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Alessandra Mezzadri is lead-author of the International Labour Organisation report on the Social life of industrial disputes: exploring workers-centred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regime (ILO, 2023, with Rakhi Sehgal), tracing conflicts and exploring the links between regional labour regimes in Gurugram (National Capital Region), Bengaluru (Karnataka) and Tiruppur (Tamil Nadu) and the evolution of industrial relations. Through a labour-centred approach focusing on workers’ experiences and by investigating workers’ industrial grievances filed individually or through unions, the study reveals great regional variation in labour practices and malpractices, also along gendered lines, offering, for instance, insights into the need to understand sexual harassment as a key aspect of labour disciplining on feminised shopfloors, as well as showing commonalities, such as illegal terminations, wage-theft, and shopfloor harassment. Alessandra will show how the successful resolution of disputes depends on collective mobilisation through union action, setting freedom of association as paramount to protecting ‘freedoms’ in labour-intensive sectors like garment.

Alessandra is a feminist, and development political economist of labour and social reproduction, and she is Reader in Global Development and Political Economy at SOAS, London. Her publications include The Sweatshop Regime (CUP, 2017.2021), the edited collection Marx in the Field (Anthem, 2021, 2023) and the co-edited Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (EE, 2023).

Tyrone Scott is the Senior Movement Building and Activism Officer for War on Want, an organisation that works in the UK and with partners around the world to fight poverty and defend human rights, as part of the movement for global justice. Tyrone will speak about War on Want’s work to secure justice for garment workers and the need for global solidarity.

Larry Herman exhibition
Larry Herman was a documentary photographer, based in east London, whose projects took him from Norway and Scotland to Cuba and the Deep South of America, among other places. He aimed to work in partnership with local grassroots organisations and strongly focused on working people and their capacity to fight for a better life. Larry’s last project took him to Bangladesh, where he documented the lives of the garment workers in Dhaka. With the support and insight of local Trade Unions, he photographed the women actively spearheading the way to improve working conditions in the factories that produce cheap clothing for global markets. These photographs, that encapsulate their lives and struggle, have never before been exhibited. Larry wrote: “I’m a documentary photographer who has rejected the usual role of spectator. I photograph ideas. I align myself with those I photograph. The people in my photographs are never simply objects.”

Date and Time: Wednesday 24 April 2024, 12:30 – 14:00

Speaker: Barbara Bechter (Durham University) and Manuela Galetto (WBS)

Title: Occupational Health and Safety in ​the hospital and care sectors: a comparative, multi-level analysis of risks and response-abilities ​in the EU (Abstract attached)

Location: The seminar will be hybrid (In-person at WBS 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-barbara-bechter-and-manuela-galetto-tickets-865467284947?aff=oddtdtcreator

New research ‘What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want?’ published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations by Nick Martindale, Alex J. Wood and Brendan Burchell https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjir.12797

Despite the considerable debate concerning the gig economy, research has yet to investigate what platform workers themselves want. In part, this is due to the difficulty of undertaking traditional social surveys in this sector. Therefore, this article makes use of a novel research design that generates a strategic non-probability sample of 510 platform workers with which to investigate workers’ preferences regarding labour rights, representation and voice. Findings suggest strong support for labour rights, trade unions and co-determination. The low pay, insecurity, risk and lack of organizational voice that we find provides a rationale for these preferences. Moreover, platform workers’ preferences are seemingly influenced by wider inequalities, with significant differences according to gender and country of birth.

Following previous successful years, the International Doctoral Consortium (IDC) will be returning with the theme of ‘Grand Challenges’, co-hosted by Durham University Business School, the Centre for Organisations and Society (COS), and the Doctoral Society. The consortium is an excellent forum for PhD students at all stages to exchange ideas, experiences and research results in a friendly and supportive environment.

IDC provides a platform for dialogue between researchers and PhD students to expose their different projects and perspectives in critical management studies. The consortium is generally critical, broadly qualitative, highly developmental, but also supportive and intimate for attendees. IDC looks to create and sustain an international network of researchers.

We invite you to submit an abstract relevant to the call (max. 500 words, excl. references). Some potential ideas could be:

• The future of work
• Leadership
• Employee health and wellbeing
• Investing in human capital for a sustainable global economy
• Gender and women’s work
• The changing impact of technology
• Corporate social responsibility and global stability
• Sustainability in global supply chain management
• Environmental responsibility of organisations
• The role of (social) entrepreneurs in uncertain times
• Development of new methodologies

Submissions are not restricted to these areas. All are welcome and can be either conceptual or empirical papers.

Format
The focus of the consortium is to provide PhD students with the opportunity to exchange their ideas both formally and informally through student presentations, workshops, and social gatherings. To maximise the experience, we ask that attendees come prepared with presentations, any questions they wish to explore, an open mind to feedback and discussions, and a willingness to engage and get involved! The overall environment is supportive and focused on learning and developing.

In addition to research presentations, the consortium will feature keynote speakers and workshop sessions. There will also be parallel events which IDC attendees are very welcome to join, with personal development workshops and the opportunity to meet PhD students from Durham University Business School.

Submission
To submit, please complete the form and attach your abstract (in Word or PDF format) at this website: https://urlr.me/!-IDC24

The deadline for submissions is 15^th April 2024

If you have any questions, please contact: Zhaohua (Flora) Song
at  zhaohua.song@durham.ac.uk.

Workshop Scientific Committee
Dr Cat Spellman, Dr Arezou Ghiassaleh, Professor Susanne Braun, Professor Peter Hamilton, Professor Jo McBride

Workshop Organising Committee
Zhaohua (Flora) Song, Weihang (Katarina) Li, Marisa Plater, Jafni Bin-Johari Jiken, Marco Orru, Iqbal Yasin

Important dates
Submission deadline for abstracts: 15^th April 2024
Decisions: in April 2024
Registration closes: 15^th May 2024
Conference dates: 4^th – 5^th June 2024

IDC Call for Papers
Registration Website: https://urlr.me/!-IDC24

Travel and Accommodation Information
Please indicate on submission whether you will require a subsidised place for accommodation. Further information on accommodation will be shared at a later date.

Location
Durham University Business School is located on Mill Hill Lane, Durham DH1 3LB, United Kingdom. It is at walking distance from Durham City Centre.

By rail – Various train services connect Durham to other major cities. A high speed service connects Durham to London in less than 3 hours. Other services run frequently Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds, Scotland, the Midlands and the South West. The city centre is walking distance from the train station, or a taxi can take you to the Business School in 10 minutes.

By Road – Durham is two miles from the A1(M) exiting at Junction 62 on the A690 Durham, following signs to Durham City Centre. Coach services are available from most major cities.

By Air – Durham is 30 minutes drive from Newcastle Airport, and 40 minutes from Durham Tees Valley. Both have regular domestic and international flights.

Pricing
The conference attendance is free of charge and some financial support for accommodation is available.

You can now register for the conference by following this link: https://www.buira.net/product-category/annual-conference-2024-registration/?orderby=price-desc

Registration will close on 14th June

There are six options for registration:

• £250 non-member of BUIRA which includes the Annual membership (£40)
• £210 member of BUIRA
• £90 PhD student and non-member of BUIRA which includes the Annual PhD membership (£20)
• £70 PhD student and member of BUIRA
• £70 Retired rate
• Honorary BUIRA member

The Leeds Index team at Leeds University Business School is recruiting a Research Fellow. If you have a PhD in employment relations or a related subject and are interested in platform work, please see below for more information and to apply:

https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=BUSWE1006”