REMINDER - deadline approaching Sorry for cross postings - but please circulate to your contacts/students - see attached poster Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) Doctoral Conference 2012 Leeds University The Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) warmly invites postgraduate researchers at all stages of their studies to attend and participate in our 2012 doctoral conference, to be held on the *3rd* May 2012 at Leeds University Business School. Abstracts are invited from a broad spectrum of employment relations themes covering any aspect of: Work Employability Labour Markets Industrial relations / trade union movements Human Resource Management We welcome presentations on any aspect of your research project and offer a friendly and encouraging setting in which to present and discuss your work in progress. Presentations will be fifteen minutes with ten minutes for discussion. A poster session will also be held on the afternoon of the *3rd* May. Buffet refreshments will be available. If you wish to attend please complete the online registration form at http://lubswww2.leeds.ac.uk/ceric/doctoral-conference. If you are interested in presenting please submit an abstract of a maximum of three hundred words to [log in to unmask] by 28th March. Notification of acceptance will be sent by Wednesday 4th April. The programme will be finalised nearer the date but keynote speakers will include Professor Mark Stuart, the director of CERIC and co editor-in-chief of Work, Employment and Society. CERIC is pleased to offer a prize for the best presentation, which will be the costs (up to £700) to cover attendance at a leading national conference of the students choice. There is also a prize of £100 in vouchers for the best poster. For any queries please contact the organisers at [log in to unmask] To find out more about CERIC, please visit: http://lubswww2.leeds.ac.uk/CERIC/ -- Dr Jane Holgate Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations Work and Employment Relations Division Leeds University Business School 31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05) University of Leeds LS2 9JT email: [log in to unmask] Mobile: 07960 798399