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Doris Ruth Eikhof is Lecturer in Work and Organisation Studies at Stirling Management School, University of Stirling. Her research focuses on work, organisation and enterprise in the creative industries, social theories in organisation studies, work life-boundaries and women’s work. Current and recent work includes the CReATeS consortium for researching arts and technology in Scotland (for NESTA, AHRC, Creative Scotland), a workshop series on “New horizons for the cultural industries” for the Scottish Universities Insight Institute as well as contract research for Creative Scotland, SKS Scotland’s Work4ME project; skills and business development projects with the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Stirling Council, Stills Gallery and Mugdock Makkers Gallery; and a Knowledge Transfer Project with macrobert arts centre.

Doris has published in international books and journals and is co-editor of 'Work less, live more? Critical Analyses of the Work-Life Relationship' (Palgrave 2008), of ‘Creating balance? International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals’ (Springer 2011) and of an Employee Relations special issue on work-life balance (2007, Vol. 29:4).

Doris can be contacted at d.r.eikhof@stir.ac.uk

Link to Stirling website: http://www.stir.ac.uk/management/staff-directory/institute-for-socio-management/dr-doris-ruth-eikhof/

Professor Alan Felstead is Research Professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.  His research focuses on: training, skills and learning; non-standard forms of employment; and the spaces and places of work.  He has completed over 30 funded research projects (including seven funded by the ESRC), produced six books, and written over 150 journal articles, book chapters and research reports.  His books include Improving Working as Learning (with Fuller, A, Jewson, N and Unwin, L), London: Routledge, 2009; and Changing Places of Work (with Jewson, N and Walters, S), London: Routledge, 2005.  In addition, he is regularly called upon to give labour market advice to a range of policy-makers, including the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, the devolved UK administrations, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), the Japanese Institute of Labor and a number of Regional Development Agencies.  He has also acted as an advisor to the Work Foundation and Samsung.

Professor Felstead can be contacted by email on alanfelstead@cf.ac.uk or by phone on 029 2087 9050.  For more information, go to: http://www.cf.ac.uk/people/alanfelstead/

Francis Green

Francis Green is Professor at the University of London, England. After graduating in Physics at Oxford University, he studied Economics at the LSE, before writing his PhD thesis at Birkbeck College. His research focuses on labour economics, with special interests in skills, training, work quality and employment relations. He led the research team that developed the UK’s Skills Survey in 1997, and the repeated surveys in 2001 and 2006. These surveys developed the job requirements approach for measuring the use of skills at work in social surveys for research purposes. He has published nine books and many papers in journals and in book collections. He regularly provides consultancy advice for government departments, the European Commission and the OECD. His most recent book, "Demanding Work. The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy", was published in 2006 by Princeton University Press.

Francis can be contacted by email at: g.f.green@kent.ac.uk or by phone on: 01227 827305.

For further information, see:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/economics/staff/profiles/francis-green.html

http://www.soz.uni-heidelberg.de/Dr_Michael_Hoelscher/820,633,0,0,1.html

http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/directory/dr-michael-hoelscher/

Prue Huddleston is Professorial Fellow and Director of the Centre for Education and Industry, University of Warwick; she has a particular interest in the 14-19 curriculum, focusing on vocational qualifications and work-related learning, including the use of alternative approaches to the schooling of those identified as under-achieving.  Before joining the University of Warwick, she worked for many years within the FE sector and on community and outreach programmes.  Her current and recent research and evaluation work includes: Evaluation of the Enterprise Education Pathfinder Programme (DfES); Evaluation of the ‘Getting Connected’ programme (National Youth Agency); Evaluation of Changemakers Social Enterprise Pathfinder Programme.  She is currently involved in work for QCA on the development of the new Specialised Diplomas.  She was recently appointed as a special adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Skills (Further Education).

Prue can be contacted by e-mail at: p.j.huddleston@warwick.ac.uk or by phone on: 02476 523909.  

Geraint Johnes is Professor of Economics at Lancaster University. He is a labour economist with particular interests in the economics of education. He has published widely on a variety of issues including: costs in higher education; funding formulae; performance indicators; wage determination; discrimination and occupational segregation; and forecasting models. In recent years, Geraint has advised the DfES, DTI, Office for National Statistics, British Council, HEFCE, HEFCW, European Union, OECD and the World Bank on issues concerning education economics and finance.

Geraint can be contacted by email at G.Johnes@lancaster.ac.uk or by phone on 01524 594215.

A recent publication that might be of particular interest in the SKOPE context was published recently in the Economics Bulletin and may be found at http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2009/Volume29/EB-09-V29-I1-P38.pdf.

Natalie’s research interests are in the development of expertise in practices and higher education transitions. Her recently-completed doctoral thesis focuses on the experiences of students navigating learning environments in the transition from university to the workplace, via summer internships at an investment bank. She is a staff writer for Universum Quarterly, an international employment branding journal, and is currently collaborating on a chapter for the textbook ‘Pedagogy in Higher Education’.

Patricie Mertova is a SKOPE Associate Research Fellow and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Her Marie Curie fellowship investigates academic perspectives of internationalisation and quality in English, Australian and Czech higher education. She has recently completed a review of graduate attributes at an Australian research-intensive university. Her main research interests include internationalisation, quality and graduate attributes in higher education, educational policies, the relation between higher education and the world of work.

Patricie can be contacted by email at patricie.mertova@education.ox.ac.uk or by telephone on 0044 1865 611022.

Dennis Nickson is Professor and Head of the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to becoming Head of Department Dennis had previously been the Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research. His research interests include: the nature of work and employment in the interactive service sector and the relationship between product market, skills and labour markets. He has extensive experience of leading research projects. Recent projects have included a review of recruitment issues in the Scottish voluntary sector, an analysis of the relationship between product market strategies and HRM within the hospitality sector and a major project examining equal pay issues for classroom assistants in Scottish primary schools. He has published widely in these areas, including articles in the Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Work, Employment and Society. Sole and co-authored books include Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries (Butterworth Heinemann, 2007) and Looking Good, Sounding Right (Industrial Society, 2001).

Dennis can be contacted by e-mail at: d.p.nickson@strath.ac.uk or by phone on: 0141 548 3970.

Cathy Stasz is a Senior Scientist at RAND Corporation and a Research Associate at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Her research interests are in education policy, especially VET, the impact of changes in work on education and training systems, and the measurement of skills.  Her most recent research includes a policy analysis of VET systems in the U.K., a study of the relationship between economic skill demands and post-secondary education and training opportunities in the State of Qatar, and an evaluation of the Open Society Institute’s Step-by-Step early childhood education program. With colleagues at Oxford, Cathy has recently completed a review of the Diploma Development Partnerships.  She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and is a member of the Professional Development and Training Committee of the American Educational Research Association.

Cathy can be contacted by email at: cathy@rand.org or by phone on: 01865 883 547.

For the last seven years, Carlos has been working in the field of Lifelong Learning with an emphasis on adult education and learning in non-formal and informal settings. He has collaborated with the Regional Cooperation Centre for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CREFAL) and the International Council for Adult education (ICAE). 

He has also been lecturer in the fields of human rights and development, and in education policy and reform in HEIs in Mexico and most recently in Spain. He has been Visiting Scholar to the European Master's in Lifelong Learning: policy and management, in IOE (University of London), Aarhus Univeristy (DPU), and University of Deusto, where he currently works at the Intrenational Reserach Project Office.

Carlos' research interests include critical pedagogy, adult education, lifelong learning policy making, learning cities and regions, and higher education.  

atouloumakou@bca.edu.gr

Chris Warhurst is Professor of Work & Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia. His research interests focus on labour process and labour market developments and issues. More specifically he is interested in skill development, supply, demand and development. Current research includes aesthetic labour in services; skill utilisation; job quality. With members of SKOPE (and others) he is also working on an ESRC-funded project examining graduate skills (with Susan James), is co-editing the Handbook on Skills and Training for the Oxford University Press (with Ken Mayhew), and is co-organiser of an ESRC-funded seminar series on making bad jobs better (with Caroline Lloyd and Ewart Keep). He has recently completed research on gender and pay in financial services, higher education student financing, and the skills and pay of classroom assistants. He has worked in an advisory capacity for HM Treasury, the Scottish Executive/Government, Scottish Enterprise, Skills Australia and the OECD.

Chris can be contacted by email at: chris.warhurst@sydney.edu.aumailto:chris.warhurst@sydney.edu.au

Richard Whittington is Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School and Millman Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. His current research interests are senior managers’ skills and strategy-as-practice. He has authored or co-authored eight books, the most recent being (with Johnson, Langley and Melin) Strategy-as-Practice: Research Directions and Resources (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He is on the editorial review board of eight journals, including the Academy of Management Review and Organization Science, and is a Senior Editor of Organization Studies. He has published in a wide range of journals, including Organization Science and the Strategic Management Journal. He currently holds the visiting Chaire d’Excellence at the University of Toulouse.