Research and Consultancy Projects
Current research and consultancy projects
- 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
- Papers on BMEs (black and minority ethnic) workers experience of working in local government with Whyeda Gill-Mclure (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 emergency services: police, fire, and ambulance
- Chapter in booklet on the Alternative Economic Strategy
- Research project with Dr Keith Gildart on the ‘Winter of Discontent’
Consultancy and other work
- Lecturer on political economy to RMT activists
- Research into the future of civil service employment with Mike Ironside for PCS; reform of the culture sector
- Commentary on the Winsor report into Police Pay for the Police Federation
- Employee relations for CIPD and Unilever
- Appointed member of the advisory panel for the Centre for Labour and Social Science (new think tank)
- Upgrading the disciplinary and grievance procedures for a national newspaper