SKOPE is happy to announce a new member of the Advisory Committee, Mr John Earls.
John Earls is Research Section Head at Unite, the UK’s largest trade union with 2 million members in the private and public sectors. John was previously Joint Head of Research at UNIFI, the specialist finance sector trade union.
John is a board member of the Financial Services Skills Council. He is a Research Associate at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). He was a member of the Commissioning Panel for the Economic and Social Research Council’s e-society research programme and of the Financial Services Authority’s Advisory Group on Financial Capability. He has had articles published in a range of journals on issues such as the future for trade unions and the world of work.
John was educated at the London School of Economics and Middlesex Polytechnic. He is married with three children, lives in London and is a Chelsea supporter.
