Dr Daniel Dan Bishop
- Workplace learning and employee development
- Informal learning at work
- Training and workplace learning in small organisations
- Initial and continuing development in the professions
- Staff development in schools, colleges and universities
Mr Paul Brook
- Emotional Labour and Emotion Work
- Labour Process Analysis
- Medical Labour Process and Clinical Work
- Service Work
- Service Worker Trade Unionism
Paul Conville
- Institutional change in capitalist systems
- Social theories of Bourdieu and Boltanski
- Language (especially definition) as an organising practice
Professor Michaela Driver
- Lacanian psychoanalysis
- Subjective experience of individuals in organisations
- Organisational identity and learning
- Emotions
- Spirituality
- Corporate social responsibility
- Identity work
- Creativity
- Embodied subjectivity and leadership
Dr Anne-Marie Greene
- Diversity practitioners
- Faith workers and clergy
- Work with a calling or mission
- Volunteering and management in the voluntary sector
- Trade union organisation
Dr Nikolaus Hammer
- International Human Resource Management
- Global Value Chains and Inter-Firm Relations
- Comparative Work and Employment Relations in Europe
- International Industrial Relations and Trade Unionism
Dr Marti Lopez-Andreau
- Trajectories and careers (transitions, promotions, etc.)
- Changes in employment regulation institutions
- Industrial relations, including union practices and emerging forms of protest/collective action at workplace level
- Precarious work, precarious workers and insecurity in the workplace
- Life-course analysis
- Mix-methods designs
Professor Peter Nolan
- Ageing in the Workplace
- Industrial Relations
- Inter-generational conflict at Work
- Labour Markets and Economic Performance
Dr Reka Plugor
- Transitions into and out of work (education, precarious employment, retirement, sick leave and maternity/paternity leave)
- (Higher education) student experience
- Employee experience and employee experience management
- MSP – the experiences of people in multiple status positions
- Labour turnover – particularly how it is affected by employee actions (i.e. working hours, overtime and absence)
- Qualitative methods and analysis
- Quantitative methods and analysis
Deborah Price
Eimer Sparham
- The relationship of National Culture and studying via Distance Learning
- High Performance Work Practices
- Women Breadwinners
Dr Katharine Venter
- Gender, Careers, and Work-Life Balance
- Parenting of Chronically Ill and Disabled Children
- Parent Carers in the Labour Market
- Learning and Skills Development in the Third Sector
- Learning and Skills in Chinese Enterprises
- Implications of National Culture for Learning and for Employment Practices
Dr Jenna Ward
- Emotion
- Emotional, aesthetic and affective labour
- The dark side
- Identity
- Arts-based and visual methods
- Voluntary sector and the management of volunteers
- Death work
Dr Glynne Williams
- Employment/Industrial Relations, in particular:
- Industrial Relations in Multinational Companies
- Outsourcing
- Public Sector Restructuring
- Role and Implications of ‘Social Enterprise
Professor Stephen Wood
- Nature of High Involvement Management and Impact on Well-Being and Organisational Performance
- Teamworking among Software Engineers
- Staff Morale in Mental Health In-Patient Care
- Family-Friendly Management - Nature, Predictors of Use, and Performance Effects
- Work/Non-Work Conflict among Portfolio Workers
- Bullying at Work
- Job Design in Call Centres
- Social and Economic Challenges of Nanotechnology