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
