In recent years, the UK Government has made ‘making bad jobs better’ a policy priority and international research indicates that bad jobs can indeed be made better. However, this research needs to be marshalled, evaluated and applied to the UK context.
The four seminars' topics centre on key academic and policy questions:
Seminar 1: What makes jobs 'bad'?
March 2010: Glasgow - resources available from this event
Seminar 2: How can bad jobs be made more bearable?
21 September 2010: Oxford (Register Now)
Seminar 3: How can exit routes from bad jobs be created?
2 March 2011: Cardiff
Seminar 4: What policy interventions might make bad jobs better?
September 2011: London
Speakers at the Oxford seminar in September 2010 include Prof. Gerhard Bosch (University of Duisburg-Essen),
Dr Chris Forde (University of Leeds), Hilary Metcalf (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), and
Prof. Jane Wills (Queen Mary, University of London). If you wish to attend this event, please register your interest on the Seminar 2 page.
At seminars 3 and 4, key international speakers include Prof. Barbara Pocock (University of South Australia) and Prof. Paul Osterman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) respectively.
The seminar series is organised by Chris Warhurst, Patricia Findlay and Johanna Commander from SCER at Strathclyde University and Caroline Lloyd and Ewart Keep from SKOPE based at Cardiff and Oxford Universities.
