And here's a legible version of the email sent last week!

Dear all,

With apologies for cross posting - here are details of a workshop you may be interested in.  The topic is Making Good Work and the workshop focuses on relations between academics and policymakers, practitioners and trade unionists.  It would be lovely to see some of you there and please do pass details of this on to colleagues

best wishes

Irena Grugulis


Making Good Work: Policy, Practice and Research

Workshop Tuesday 30th October 2018

Science Gallery, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9GU

Improving the quality of jobs is a widely shared goal among the three communities of: policy makers; practitioners in companies and trade unions; and researchers. There is also widespread consensus that policy, practice and research could be improved if dialogue between these three specialist communities were better.  This workshop seeks to address this situation and improve engagement between the three communities, with specific reference to research, policy and practice around improving the quality of work. In the morning session two presentations will explore the processes involved in successful collaboration.  In the afternoon, workshops jointly facilitated by academics, policymakers and practitioners will discuss the practicalities of collaborative working.  Academics will be able to engage directly with policymakers and practitioners, as they, in their turn, will be able to engage directly with academics.  We hope that this will help to establish an environment where professionals can meet and where all can learn from existing collaborations which produce high quality research that is collaborative and that has impact.  This will also be an opportunity to exchange ideas which will lead to future collaborations to tackle bad jobs and improve job quality. 

The fee to attend is £80, with lunch and refreshments provided.

PhD students and Early Career Researchers will be charged £30 and there may be additional support available for them.
Please book online at:

https://store.leeds.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/leeds-university-business-school/research-events/making-good-work-policy-practice-and-research

 
AGENDA

9.00 			Registration and coffee

10.00	Welcome – Professor Stephen Bach, Dean of King’s Business School 

10.15 – 12.15	Professor Patricia Findlay (Strathclyde University), Grahame Smith 				(General Secretary, Scottish TUC) and Linda Murray (Head of 				Strategy Services Scottish Enterprise).  

Professor Monder Ram (Aston University) and Fuad Mahamed 		(CEO Ashley Integrates). 

12.15 – 13.15 	Lunch break
13.15 – 14.15 	Break out groups Session One
14.15 – 14.45 	Coffee break
14.45 – 15.45 	Break out groups Session Two
15.45 – 16.15 	Debrief, Closing remarks


Workshop Organisers: Professor Irena Grugulis (Leeds), Professor Katie Bailey (Kings) and Professor Kevin Daniels (UEA) 

Workshop Steering Group: Professor Paul Edwards (Birmingham), Dr Diane Burns (Sheffield), Professor John Childs (Birmingham), Professor Anne-Marie Greene (Leicester), Professor Ray Loveridge (Oxford), Professor Monder Ram (Aston), Kiran Trehan (Birmingham), Professor Chris Warhurst (Warwick), Dr M Williams (Surrey)

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