Research and Consultancy Projects

• Writing the biography of Bert Ramelson (with Tom Sibley) with grant from Nuffield Foundation
• Editing book on public sector reform to be published by Policy Press. Chapters by me on the NHS; on the Police, Fire, and Ambulance services; and with Mike Ironside on neo-liberalism
• Paper on police pay
• Paper on teacher strikes in the UK from 1948-1979
• Papers on the 2002-4 Fire service dispute (with Tom Sibley)
• Paper on leftwing politics and the trade unions in the UK from 1964-1978 (with Tom Sibley)
• Papers on BMEs (black and minority ethnic) workers experience of working in local government with Mike Ironside, Whyeda Gill-Mclure, and Kath Clarke (funded by UNISON)
• Papers with Kim Mather on labour process and lecturers in Further Education
• Paper with Yi Lingfei on the impact of state reforms on Chinese school teachers
• Papers with Kim Mather on Front Line and Back Room staff in the public sector

Consultancy and other work

• Lecturer on HRM to managers at the Fire College
• Lecturer on political economy to RMT activists
• Research into the future of civil service employment with Mike Ironside for PCS; reform of Land Registry and briefed MPs.
• Assessor for the National College of Industrial Relations in Dublin