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/
