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)
