MIRS Meeting Archive
2006-2015
Thursday 19 October 2006
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
Globalisation, Labour Standards and Migration in the New Europe
Professor Charles Woolfson,
Marie Curie Chair, University of Latvia and Professor of Labour Studies, University of Glasgow
Thursday 9 November 2006
Employment Relations and the Health Service: The Management of Reforms
Stephen Bach,
Department of Management, King’s College, London
Thursday 7 December 2006
Joint Meeting with Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development
What is Employee Relations?
Mike Emmot,
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Thursday 18 January 2007
Rebuilding the Trade Union Movement: The Organising Agenda
Jack Dromey,
Deputy General Secretary, Transport and General Workers’ Union
Thursday 22 February 2007
Joint Meeting with Industrial Law Society
The Stepping Stones to Fairness at Work
Carolyn Jones,
Director, Institute for Employment Rights
Thursday 15 March 2007
Non-Union Employee Representation
Paul Gollan,
Department of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics
Thursday 3 May 2007
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
The Europeanisation of Industrial Relations: Formal and Informal Processes
Professor Paul Marginson,
Director, Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Thursday 16 October 2008
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
Industrial Relations in China
Professor Bill Taylor
Fulbright Fellow, School of Industrial & Labour Relations, Cornell University, and Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Thursday 6 November 2008
Joint Meeting with CIPD
An Approach to Industrial Relations in Royal Mail: Balancing Pace with Patience
Sandy Batho
Ex-Head of Employee Relations, Royal Mail Letters,
Director of Human Resources and Change, National Trust (Scotland)
Thursday 4 December 2008
Unions Online: E-campaigns, Facebook, Twitter and Beyond
Eric Lee
Editor of LabourStartwww.labourstart.org
Thursday 22 January 2009
Public Sector Pay Policy and Inflation: Implications for Industrial Relations
Alastair Hatchet
Director, Incomes Data Services
Thursday 19 February 2009
Joint Meeting with Industrial Law Society
Employment Tribunals: Fit For Purpose in the Twenty-First Century?
Brian J. Doyle
Regional Employment Judge
Thursday 12 March 2009
New Labour and the Trade Unions: A Critical Evaluation of the Union-Party Link
Professor John Mcllroy
Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University
Thursday 14 May 2009
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
What’s the Point of Industrial Relations? In Defence of Critical Social Science
Professor Linda Clarke, University of Westminster Business School and Dr. Sian Moore, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Thursday 15 October 2009
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
The Crisis of Political Representation in Britain Today
Mark Serwotka
General Secretary, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)
Thursday 12 November 2009
Joint Meeting withIndustrial Law Society
The Right to Strike
John Hendy QC
Old Square Chambers, visiting Professor in the School of Law, Kings College London and Chair of the Institute of Employment Rights
Thursday 3 December 2009
The Evolution of the Modern British Workplace
Alex Bryson
Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Thursday 21 January 2010
Joint Meeting with CIPD
What Has the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Done For HRM and Industrial Relations?
Professor Mick Marchington
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Companion of CIPD and Chief Examiner/Moderator Standards
Thursday 18 February 2010
Insecure and Vulnerable Work
Professor Anna Pollert
Centre for Employment Studies Research, Bristol Business School, University of West of England
Thursday 18 March 2010
Equalities and Ethnicity
Roger McKenzie
Regional Secretary, UNISON West Midlands
Thursday 13 May 2010
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
Why Are French Industrial Relations So Strike-Prone?
Professor Steve Jefferys
Director of Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Thursday 14 October 2010
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
The ‘Age of Austerity’ and its Implications for EU Social Cohesion
Paul Mason
Economics Editor, BBC 2 Newsnight
Thursday 18 November 2010
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
Building a Trade Union Coalition of Resistance to Government Cutbacks
Alex Gordon
President, National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers
Thursday 20 January 2011
John Lewis’s Distinctive Human Resources Model
Marcus Safadi
Registrar, John Lewis (Cheadle and Trafford)
Thursday 17 February 2011
Management: Caught Between Competing Views of the Organisation
Professor Keith Sisson
Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Warwick (former director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit and Head of Strategy Development at ACAS)
Thursday 17 March 2011
Migrants and Employment: Challenging Barriers and Exploring Pathways
Professor Sonia McKay
Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Thursday 12 May 2011
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
Equalities and Diversity: The Ultimate Industrial Relations Concern
Professor Rosemary Lucas
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
Thursday 13 October 2011
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
Wapping and News International
Tony Burke
Assistant General Secretary, Unite the Union
Thursday 1 December 2011
In Defence of Public Services, Jobs and Conditions
Christine Blower
General Secretary, National Union of Teachers
Thursday 19 January 2012
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
Professor Guy Standing
Department of Social and Policy Studies, University of Bath
Thursday 16 February 2012
Joint Meeting with the Industrial Law Society
Employment Discrimination
Jennifer Eady QC
Old Square Chambers, London, Chancery Lane
Thursday 15 March 2012
Women Workers: Recession and Resistance
Dr Hazel Conley
Queen Mary, University of London
Thursday 10 May 2012
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
Thursday 18 October 2012
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
Euro Austerity and Resistance
Seumas Milne
Guardiancolumnist/associate editor, author ofThe Enemy Within& co-authorBeyond the Casino Economy
Thursday 6 December 2012
Body Work and Employment Relations
Rachel Cohen
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
Thursday 24 January 2013
The Modernisation of Public Services and Employment Relations
Professor Ian Kessler
Department of Management, Kings College, University of London
Thursday 21 February 2013
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
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
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
Thursday 17 October 2013
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
The Future of Trade Unionism: Challenges and Opportunities
Paul Nowak
TUC Assistant General Secretary
Thursday 5 December 2013
The Pay Squeeze: Implications for Employment Relations
Ken Mulkearn,
Head of Pay and Research, Incomes Data Services
Thursday 23 January 2014
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
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
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
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
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
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
