Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?
Presentation / Conference
O'Neil, J., & Ivancheva, M. (2024, April)
Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?. Paper presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen
Precarious work that becomes a ‘stepping stone’ to decent work (McGuiness and Wooden 2009, Nunley et al 2017; Munoz-Comet and Steinmetz 2020) is the bargain struck for many le...
Public engagement in the Business School: What is public engagement and how can TBS researchers engage with their publics?
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2023, December)
Public engagement in the Business School: What is public engagement and how can TBS researchers engage with their publics?. Presented at Tourism & Languages Research Seminar, Edinburgh
This seminar and workshop will provide an overview of Public Engagement (PE) with research in the Business School. It will introduce the University’s Public Engagement Funding...
Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis
Presentation / Conference
Weaver, M. (2022, September)
Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis. Presented at OR64: OR For a Better World Together, University of Warwick
Each year we pose a “grand challenge” to provide an opportunity to identify how OR can be used to help solve real-world issues in our host city region, the UK and beyond. We h...
Why we don't always say what we mean: Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Competence
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2022, February)
Why we don't always say what we mean: Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Competence. Presented at Global Skills in the 21st Century, University of Aveiro, Portugal
“Brilliant at everything, saying yes to even more”: The realities of overwork in academia
Presentation / Conference
Pustelnikovaite, T., Richards, J., Ellis, V., & Saxena, S. (2021, August)
“Brilliant at everything, saying yes to even more”: The realities of overwork in academia. Paper presented at Work, Employment and Society, Online
Leaveism is an important yet underresearched phenomenon in contemporary work and employment. It refers to employees using allocated time off to work, such as taking work home ...
Young people’s expectations of work, and readiness of the workplace: Two sides of the same coin?
Presentation / Conference
Egdell, V., Grant, K., & Vincent, D. (2021, April)
Young people’s expectations of work, and readiness of the workplace: Two sides of the same coin?. Paper presented at The 39th International Labour Process Conference, University of Greenwich, London
Since the 2008 economic downturn, the education-to-work transitions of young people have been a concern for governments across Europe (Coppola & O’Higgins 2016). Young people ...
All Zoomed out!: A critical analysis of new technology and remote working for practitioner counsellors during the Covid-19 pandemic
Presentation / Conference
O'Neil, J., Heidl, B., & Bratton, A. (2021, April)
All Zoomed out!: A critical analysis of new technology and remote working for practitioner counsellors during the Covid-19 pandemic. Paper presented at The International Labour Process Conference, London [Online]
Developing the concept of leaveism: From a form of presenteeism/absence to an emergent and expanding domain of work
Presentation / Conference
Richards, J., Canduela, J., Pustelnikovaite, T., Ellis, V., & Saxena, S. (2021, April)
Developing the concept of leaveism: From a form of presenteeism/absence to an emergent and expanding domain of work. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference, University of Greenwich
The purpose of the paper is to develop the emergent notion of leaveism by drawing on concepts related to work intensification (WI) and ideal worker (IW) norms. The argument dr...
Industrial Relations and Sustainable Workplaces: Contradictions, Processes, and Prospects
Presentation / Conference
Bratton, A. (2021, March)
Industrial Relations and Sustainable Workplaces: Contradictions, Processes, and Prospects. Paper presented at British Universities Industrial Relations Association Annual Conference, University of Bradford
The normalisation of overwork: A scoping study of Leavism
Presentation / Conference
Richards, J., Pustelnikovaite, T., Ellis, V., & Canduela, J. (2020, April)
The normalisation of overwork: A scoping study of Leavism. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference, Newcastle
The proposed paper focuses on Leaveism, understood as employees using allocated time off to work (CIPD, 2018). Leaveism involves using allocated time off when actually unwell,...