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Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UK is experiencing a persistent skills gap which has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. One factor that contributes toward the skill gap is university students graduating, but not being equipped with the necessary employability skills to meet gra... Read More about Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges.

Conceptualising older women’s wellbeing at work across the life course (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The European Research Network: Older Women’s Workplace Wellbeing was was founded in 2021 at the University of Salford, bringing together a diverse group of European female researchers with shared interests in older women, ageing, demographic change... Read More about Conceptualising older women’s wellbeing at work across the life course.

Human resource management students – but no HR analytics? Modifying the traditional masters dissertation to accommodate students struggling with data (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This developmental paper outlines how the Human Resource Management (HRM) module team on a master’s degree programme at a UK University are attempting to shape the curriculum to encourage HRM students to work with data. This is in direct response to... Read More about Human resource management students – but no HR analytics? Modifying the traditional masters dissertation to accommodate students struggling with data.

Not just arms and legs: Employer perspectives on student workers (2022)
Journal Article

The student workforce plays a substantial part in several low-paying industries such as retail and hospitality, and this has grown over time. However, there has been little recent research. The usual assumption is that students compete successfully w... Read More about Not just arms and legs: Employer perspectives on student workers.

A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship (2022)
Journal Article

Since the 1990s, the hospitality industry has been increasingly characterized by temporary and insecure forms of employment, a development, which has coincided with rising numbers of students seeking part-time employment. This provides increased job... Read More about A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship.

Sequential mixed methods research: Non-compliance in apprentice pay with owls (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Within mixed methods literature, the relationship between qualitative and quantitative data collection is ubiquitously presented as sequential. Thus, the most followed approach is for the first stage of data collection to follow the second, or to run... Read More about Sequential mixed methods research: Non-compliance in apprentice pay with owls.

Not just arms and legs: Student working and the local labour market (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Not just arms and legs: The impact of student working on local labour markets (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

Not just arms and legs: Student working and the local labour market (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Measuring compliance with minimum wages (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Identifying genuine underpayment of minimum wages is not straightforward. Some well-known statistical issues affect the measurement of compliance rates, but factors such as processing or behavi... Read More about Measuring compliance with minimum wages.

Understanding apprentice pay: Final report (2016)
Report

This is the final report from a study of apprentice pay in the UK. It uses a mixed methods approach. Econometric analysis of the Apprentice Pay Survey and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings confirms findings of previous reports that the apprenti... Read More about Understanding apprentice pay: Final report.

Non-compliance in the hairdressing and childcare sectors: A qualitative study of apprentice pay (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents some of the qualitative findings from some wider research undertaken for the Low Pay Commission on non-compliance in apprenticeship pay in the hairdressing and childcare sectors. Interviews with over seventy respondents, including... Read More about Non-compliance in the hairdressing and childcare sectors: A qualitative study of apprentice pay.

Understanding apprentice pay: Interim report (2016)
Report

This is the interim report from a study of apprentice pay in the UK. It uses a mixed methods approach. Econometrics analysis of the Apprentice Pay Survey and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings confirms findings of previous reports that the appre... Read More about Understanding apprentice pay: Interim report.

The measurement of apprentice pay: Report commissioned by the Low Pay Commission (2015)
Report

This report considers the measurement of apprentice pay, both the accuracy of that measurement and what can be said about compliance with the National Minimum Wage. In summary, there are substantial problems with accurately identifying apprentice pay... Read More about The measurement of apprentice pay: Report commissioned by the Low Pay Commission.

The measurement of apprentice pay: Interim report (2015)
Report

This is the Interim Report on the LPC's project to review the measurement of Apprentice Pay. It concentrates largely on methodological issues, including a detailed analysis of the 2012 Apprentive Pay Survey; most of the issues raised were addressed i... Read More about The measurement of apprentice pay: Interim report.

Overcoming barriers: Qualitative interviews with German elites (2014)
Journal Article

Despite the fact that qualitative interviews are reputed to be an effective method of obtaining data from organizational elites, studies are concurrent on a number of obstacles which surround the interviewing of senior management. Problem areas flagg... Read More about Overcoming barriers: Qualitative interviews with German elites.

Therapeutin oder spionin? Qualitative interviews with German senior managers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite the fact that qualitative interviews are reputed to be an effective method of obtaining data from organizational elites, studies are concurrent on a number of obstacles which surround the interviewing of senior management. Problem areas flagg... Read More about Therapeutin oder spionin? Qualitative interviews with German senior managers.

How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. A resource-based view of organizations suggests that internal knowledge is amongst the most important sources of competitive advantage (Hendry and Pettigrew 1990; Leonard-Barton 1995). Regardless of whe... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS.

How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper highlights the successful role played by knowledge brokers in bridging the gap between research and policy development. Drawing on the work of Oldham and McLean (1997) on the role of knowledge brokers, the paper identifies that intermediari... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS..

Ageing workforces: An empirical study of German industrial three sectors (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The following paper presents empirical data from medium-large sized companies in Germany, in order to examine the challenges of managing demographic change from an organisational perspective. The findings are consistent with the literature on demogra... Read More about Ageing workforces: An empirical study of German industrial three sectors.