MANCHESTER INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SOCIETY

Programme of Meetings 2010-11

Thursday 14 October 2010, 6pm

Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture

The ‘Age of Austerity’ and its Implications for EU Social Cohesion

Paul Mason

Editor, BBC2 Newsnight

Thursday 18 November 2010, 6pm

The British Airways Dispute: The Strikers’ Perspective

Duncan Holley

British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA) Branch Secretary, Unite the Union

Thursday 9 December 2010, 6pm

Building Trade Union, Community and Political Resistance to Austerity Cuts

Alex Gordon

President, National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT)

Thursday 20 January 2011, 6pm

John Lewis’s Distinctive Human Resources Model and the ‘Big Society’

Marcus Safadi

Registrar, John Lewis (Cheadle and Trafford)

Thursday 17 February 2011, 6pm

Management: Caught Between Competing Views of the Organisation

Professor Keith Sisson

Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Warwick (and former Head of Strategy Development, ACAS)

Thursday 17 March 2011, 6pm

Migrants and Employment: Challenging Barriers and Exploring Pathways

Professor Sonia McKay

Working Lives Institute, London Metropolitan University

Thursday 12 May 2011, 6pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Equalities and Diversity: The Ultimate Industrial Relations Concern

Professor Rosemary Lucas

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

Programme of Meetings 2011-12

Thursday 13 October 2011, 6pm

Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture

Joint Meeting with the CIPD

Managing Employment Relations: Current Challenges and Opportunities

Neil Carberry

Director of Employment Affairs, Confederation of British Industry (CBI)

Thursday 17 November 2011, 6pm

Wapping and News International

Tony Burke

Assistant General Secretary, Unite the Union

Thursday 1 December 2011, 6pm

In Defence of Public Services, Jobs and Conditions

Christine Blower

General Secretary, National Union of Teachers

Thursday 19 January 2012, 6pm

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

Professor Guy Standing

Department of Social and Policy Studies, University of Bath

Thursday 16 February 2012, 6pm

Joint Meeting with the Industrial Law Society

Employment Discrimination

Jennifer Eady QC

Old Square Chambers, London, Chancery Lane

Thursday 15 March 2012, 6pm

The Dynamics of Managing Diversity

Professor Gill Kirton

Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary, University of London

Thursday 10 May 2012, 6pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Two Years On – Employment Relations Under the Coalition Government

Professor Mark Stuart

Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change, University of Leeds

Programme of Meetings 2012-13

Thursday 18 October 2012, 6pm

Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture

Joint Meeting with the CIPD

The Crisis in HRM

Professor Paul Thompson

Director of Research, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde

Thursday 15 November 2012, 6pm

Euro Austerity and Resistance

Seumas Milne

Guardian columnist/associate editor, author of The Enemy Within & co-author Beyond the Casino Economy

Thursday 6 December 2012, 6pm

Body Work and Employment Relations

Dr. Rachel Cohen

Department of Sociology, University of Surrey

Thursday 24 January 2013, 6pm

The Modernisation of Public Services and Employment Relations

Professor Ian Kessler

Department of Management, Kings College, University of London

Thursday 21 February 2013, 6pm

Joint Meeting with the Industrial Law Society

Struck Out: Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers

David Renton

Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London

Thursday 21 March 2013, 6pm

First Findings from the Sixth Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2011 (WERS6):

Dr Brigid van Wanrooy

WERS 2011 Project Leader, Employment Relations Directorate, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills

Thursday 16 May 2013, 6pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Is Embedded Employee Voice An Essential Pre-Requisite For Engagement?

Professor John Purcell

Associate Fellow, Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School,

University of Warwick

Programme of Meetings 2013-14

Thursday 17 October 2013, 6pm

Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture/Joint Meeting with the CIPD

Performance Management: the New Workplace Tyranny?

Professor Phil Taylor

Department of Human Resource Management, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde

Thursday 14 November 2013, 6pm

The Future of Trade Unionism: Challenges and Opportunities

Paul Nowak

TUC Assistant General Secretary

Thursday 5 December 2013, 6pm

The Pay Squeeze: Implications for Employment Relations

Ken Mulkearn,

Head of Pay and Research, Incomes Data Services

Thursday 23 January 2014, 6pm

Public Service Restructuring in the UK: The Case of the NHS

Professor Stephanie Tailby,

Centre for Employment Studies Research, University of the West of England

Thursday 27 February 2014, 6pm

Comparative Employment Relations in Europe: Work and Democracy under International Pressure

Professor Guglielmo Meardi,

Director of Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Thursday 20 March 2014, 6pm

The Great Miners’ Strike 1984-5: Reflections and Legacies

Professor Huw Beynon

Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods, Cardiff University

Thursday 15 May 2014, 6pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture and Joint Meeting with the Industrial Law Society

Making Employment Rights Effective: How Do Recent Reforms Contribute?

Professor Linda Dickens, MBE

Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Programme of Meetings 2014-15

The End of the NHS: How the Government is Privatising Health Care

Thursday 16 October 2014, 6pm

Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture

Professor Allyson Pollock

Professor of Public Health Research and Policy, Queen Mary, University of London

Pay and Cost of Living Crisis

Thursday 13 November 2014, 6pm.

Heather Wakefield

National Secretary, Head of Local Government Service Group, Unison


Employee Engagement: Challenges and Opportunities

Thursday 11 December 2014, 6pm

Joint Meeting with the CIPD

Peter Cheese

Chief Executive, Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Human Resource Management: The United Utilities Experience

Thursday 22 January 2015, 6pm

Julie McGovern

Head of Employee Relations, United Utilities

Fighting Austerity’s Impact on Black and Minority Ethnic Workers

Thursday 19 February 2015, 6pm

Zita Holbourne

National Executive, Public Commercial Services Union (PCS); co-chair Black Activists Rising against Cuts (Barac)

China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest

Thursday 19 March 2015, 6pm

Dr. Tim Pringle

Lecturer, Department of Development Studies, School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Euro-Austerity Crisis and its Aftermath: Implications for Industrial Relations

Thursday 14 May 2015, 6pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Professor Colin Crouch

Emeritus Professor of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Programme of Meetings 2015-16

Thursday 22 October 2015, 6pm

Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture/Joint Meeting with the CIPD

Whither the Human Resource Management Profession?

Dr Ian Roper

Associate Professor, Business School, Middlesex University, London

Thursday 12 November 2015, 6pm

Alternative Conceptions of the Employment Relationship: Pluralism versus Radicalism<

Professor Peter Ackers, Leicester Business School, de Montfort University, and Professor Roger Seifert, University of Wolverhampton Business School.

Thursday 3 December 2015, 6pm

Accelerating Erosion of Workers’ Employment Rights

Professor Alan Bogg

Fellow and Tutor in Law, Hertford College, University of Oxford

Thursday 21 January 2016, 6pm

NHS: The Sticking Plaster is Not Holding

Cecilia Amin

President, Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Thursday 18 February 2016, 6pm

Fast Food Rights: Hungry for Justice

Ian Hodson

National President, Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers’ Union

Thursday 10 March 2016, 6pm

The EU – In or Out? Implications for Employment Relations

Professor Michael Gold

School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London

Thursday 28 April 2016, 6pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

One Year On: Employment Relations under the Conservative Government

Professor Melanie Simms

Professor of Work and Employment, School of Management, University of Leicester