Strathclyde Business School, together with Newcastle University Business School and Monash University, is running a series of ESRC seminars exploring the regulation of work and employment which started this month. There are six seminars in the series with presentations from leading academic researchers, policy-makers, representatives from employers' organisations, senior figures from business, trade union officials and other stakeholders.
With work and employment remaining a central concern to people's livelihoods, wellbeing and identities, its regulations has always generated debate about the competing demands between economic concerns and social concerns. The seminar series will be looking at regulation from different perspectives and aims to contribute to developing understanding of the issues and in doing so helping to inform policies, strategies and practices of government, businesses and unions.
The first seminar took place at Newcastle on January 22 while Professor Paul Stewart, HRM, will be leading the second in the series on April 16 at Strathclyde Business School which will be on "Workplace Regulation, Employment and the State." SBS will also host the final seminar in September 2015.
The ESRC seminar series is being co-sponsored by the Strathclyde Business School-led Marie Curie 'ChangingEmployment' programme.