Dr Caroline Lloyd

LloydC4@cf.ac.uk

• Reader at the Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences
• Senior Research Fellow at ESRC Centre of Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)

Caroline joined Cardiff University in 2006 when SKOPE transferred from the University of Warwick to Cardiff University. Her research focuses on the relationship between product markets, labour markets, work organisation and skills.

She has recently completed a US-European research project on low waged work funded by the US-based Russell Sage Foundation on job quality in the UK. Her current research involves a European comparative study of work organisation and performance in the service sector. She also continues to undertake research on skills, training and work organisation in the fitness industry. Caroline is a member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association and on the Editorial Board of the Industrial Relations Journal.

Caroline has published widely on issues related to the political economy of skill and the link between skills and competitive strategy particularly at sectoral level. She is the co-editor of Low-Wage Work in the United Kingdom (2008). Articles have been published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations; Economic and Industrial Democracy; Human Resource Management Journal; Industrial Relations Journal; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Journal of Education Policy; Journal of Education and Work; New Technology, Work and Employment; Sociology; Work, Employment and Society. She is also a co-editor of the Palgrave book series ‘Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment’.