Director

Erika Kispeter, Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Institute for Employment Research. Erika has a background in Gender Studies and joined IER in 2015. Prior to this she worked at the University of Leeds and as a doctoral researcher at the Central European University in Budapest. She is interested in how women and men’s working lives are shaped by the labour market, work organisations and the welfare state. Her recent research has explored the impact of local welfare systems and class inequalities on women’s labour force participation in the UK and Hungary.

Further information on Erika’s research and publications can be found here.

Management Committee

Nickie Charles, Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender. Her research focusses on women and gender and includes an interest in gender relations at work and at home and how women - through involvement in feminist social movements - can bring about social change. Recent research has explored gendered political processes in the context of devolution and an increasing interest in human-animal relations, particularly how non-human animals become kin. A key theoretical concern is with the way gender relations are reproduced and/or challenged over time.

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Juanita Elias, Professor in International Political Economy, Department of Politics & International Studies. Juanita is a feminist political economist with a particular interest in domestic work and care work. Much of her work is focussed on Southeast Asia, and she has undertaken considerable research into domestic worker migration in the region. Juanita was also a commissioner on the Political Studies Association Commission on Care in Austerity Britain – an investigation into the social care crisis in the UK undertaken in collaboration with the Women’s Budget Group and the Fawcett Society. She is currently PI on a British Council Newton Fund project investigating the gendered impacts of housing resettlement in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is the co-editor of the Edward Elgar Handbook of International Political Economy and Gender. She has also co-edited the book The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (CUP, 2016) and The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia (Palgrave, 2013). Further details on Juanita's research and publications can be found here.

Kim Hoque, Professor of Human Resource Management. He joined Warwick Business School in August 2012. Prior to this he held professorial positions at Nottingham University Business School and at Birkbeck, University of London. Kim is an Associate Editor of Human Relations, and is also on the editorial boards of Industrial Relations Journal, Equal Opportunities International, Journal of Vocational Education and Training and Scandinavian Journal of Management. He has undertaken consultancy projects for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Shell UK, NHS Scotland and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. He is currently a project adviser to the Japan Institute of Labour Policy and Training. He has also in the recent past been commissioned by the Trades Union Congress to conduct evaluations of the union learning representative and equality representative initiatives.

Further information on Kim's research and publications can be found here.

Alice Mah, Professor of Sociology, with research interests in environmental justice, corporate power, and the politics of green industrial transformations. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics. Her internationally recognised research on industrial ruination, toxic pollution, post-industrial port cities, and the global petrochemical industry have been motivated by a deep concern with social inequalities, across different dimensions and scales. Alice is the author of Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth AgeLink opens in a new window with Thom Davies 2020, University of Manchester Press), Port Cities and Global LegaciesLink opens in a new window (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), and Industrial Ruination, Community, and PlaceLink opens in a new window (2012, University of Toronto Press), winner of the 2013 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Her latest book, Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It, is forthcoming with Polity Press.

Further information on Alice's research and publications can be found here.

Ralf Rogowski, Professor, Warwick Law School. Ralf Rogowski has worked at Warwick since 1993. He taught previously at Lancaster University and at the Free University in Berlin. He is currently the Director of the Law and Sociology Programme and was Co-Director of the Social Theory Centre until 2009. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Wisconsin, Madison; Konstanz; and Maastricht and a longstanding Research Associate at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB) in Berlin. From September to December 2006, he was Senior Emile Noel Fellow at New York University School of Law. Since 1996 he has been general editor of the book series Studies in Modern Law and Policy and since 2012 with S. Karstedt and D. Taenzler of the book series Law, Crime and Culture (both Ashgate).

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Chris Warhurst, Director of the Warwick Institute for Employment Research. He is an Associate Research Fellow of SKOPE at the Universities of Oxford and Cardiff, and co-editor of Palgrave's Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment book series. He uses mixed methods in his research, which ranges over small-scale qualitative case studies to national surveys. He has secured over 50 research awards from national research councils, government, employers, trade unions and charities. He has published more than a dozen books including The Skills That Matter (Palgrave) and Are bad jobs inevitable? (Palgrave), Handbook of Skills and Training (OUP), Job Quality: Perspectives, Problems and Proposals (Federation Press). He has published around 50 academic journal articles, over 40 book chapters and more than 25 reports for government and practitioners. He has been an expert advisor to the UK (on pay, skills), Scottish (on skills, labour market issues, economic development) and Australian Governments (on skills utilisation) and is currently an International Expert Adviser to the OECD's LEED programme.

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Carol Wolkowitz, Reader in the Department of Sociology. Her research has involved a number of different areas of gender, employment and body studies. In 2006 she published Bodies at Work (Sage), exploring the relation between embodiment and the labour process, including public and private sector employment in ‘body work’ services. It also includes an analysis of photographs of bodies at work, an interest continued more recently in a special edition of Sociological Research Online. Further information on Carol's research and publications can be found here