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Dear colleagues There are only 10 spaces left for this event - if you have not done so and would like to sign up can you please do so asap - and can you circulate among your contacts in your division/school/post-grad students/email lists and elsewhere? Much appreciated Many thanks Jane Dear colleagues I would like to invite you to attend this conference I am organising here at Leeds on 23/24 March 2017 co-convened between Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, the Leeds Social Sciences Institute, and HOPE not hate. Sign up here if you would like to attend as places will be limited; https://goo.gl/forms/3cdzxCoa3CzYnifi1 Please feel free to circulate to anyone you think might be interested. The conference is titled '˜A future for Post Industrial Communities?' and for many people in these communities this is not an abstract or an academic question -“ a factor that has become particularly evident since the vote to leave the European Union in June 2016. While de-industrialisation began before the Thatcher governments of the 1980s, it has continued to accelerate, and today the process is felt hardest in previously industrialised towns, where docks, mines, steelworks and car plants that once provided a strong working class identity and where there was skilled employment and a living wage. Academics and practitioners will be presenting in a way which is unfamiliar to many (using a technique which makes sure they focus in on the important, key points). We will also spend a significant amount of time in workshops as we don'™t think anyone has a monopoly of answers™ to the multitude of challenges faced by these communities, and we want to make a lasting impact. As such we believe that over the two days, practitioners and academics can work together, pooling their practical experience and their theoretical contributions, to create new knowledge “ that shapes a '˜theory of change'™ that itself gives rise to a plan of action. There won't be an edited book at the end of this conference, but we hope there will be a series of interventions that support these communities to overcome division, demand policies that facilitate long-term sustainable regeneration, and effect meaningful change in their communities. Sign up here if you would like to attend as places will be limited; https://goo.gl/forms/3cdzxCoa3CzYnifi1 Best wishes Jane -- Professor Jane Holgate Professor of 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