WEO Research Seminar: Meet the Editor, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Professor Ryan Lamare, London School of Economics

Event Date: 8 December 2025

Speaker: Professor Ryan Lamare

Time: 1.30pm-3pm GMT

Location: For booking details, please email sbs-weo@strath.ac.uk

Abstract:

British Journal of Industrial Relations is a multidisciplinary, international journal of work, labour, and employment relations. It focuses on the institutions, policies, and practices associated with these relations and their implications for matters of economy and society. We seek original high quality research that makes a generalisable contribution to the understanding or knowledge of the field and journal subject matter.

The journal's purview includes work and employment, work organisation, employer practices, systems of representation and rights at work, trade unionism, state policies, and international organizations. These may intersect with social and economic issues such as work in developing countries, migrant workers, job quality, pay, gender, ethnicity, conflict, and injustice.

We seek original high quality research that makes a generalisable contribution to the understanding or knowledge of the journal's subject matter. International papers are encouraged, although they should be broadly relevant to the journal's core readership, which is primarily British but also European, North American, and Australian.

The session will take the following shape:

• Background to editorial role and journal
• Trends and new emerging conversations
• Threshold issues and avoiding a desk reject
• Why of relevance to ECRs
• Q & A
• Summary and concluding remarks

The Meet the Editor series has four aims:

• To enhance knowledge on the latest changes and developments in publishing
• To give opportunity for SBS researchers to ask questions about research and publishing to those who make the decisions
• To strengthen links between SBS and a range of academic journals
• To demystify the publishing process for PGR researchers

Biography:

J. Ryan Lamare is Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management at the London School of Economics (LSE). Prior to joining LSE, he was the Reuben G. Soderstrom International Labor Relations Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has held previous positions at Penn State University, the University of Manchester, and the University of Limerick. He received his PhD in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Ryan’s main research interests are in quantitative empirical analyses of the interactions between institutions and ER/HR actors. His research consists of two main projects connected to this theme: the relationships between workplace actors and the political arena, and the use of private workplace conflict management systems at organizations. In related projects, he examines the ties between institutions and employee voice at multinational firms, and the ways in which macro-level shocks affect workplaces. He has published widely on these issues at elite ER/HR outlets like British Journal of Industrial Relations, ILR Review, and Industrial Relations, as well as top journals in HR and management, work sociology, law, and political science.

He is currently Editor-in-Chief at British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Published: 18 November 2025