A collage of speakers at the event
On May Day/International Workers' Day over 50 academics, policymakers, employers and trade unionists met at the University of Strathclyde to assess Scotland’s progress in becoming a Fair Work Nation. Thanks to our speakers, and participants for a thought provoking day. @buiraonline.bsky.social
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You can see the video: youtu.be/A2wRfa1s0KI Thanks to: @buiraonline.bsky.social, @johnstonestew.bsky.social, @melaniesimms.bsky.social @Peter Turnbul, & George Bain for your many contributions and for answering our questions!
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for a special @buiraonline.bsky.social webinar with Emeritus Prof Sir George Bain. George shared reflections on his career as a leading IR researcher as well as major leadership and public service roles. @melaniesimms.bsky.social @gregbamber.bsky.social
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Reads with interest from a comfortable iconic intercity 125 train
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Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress
ESRC Research Centre addressing pressures and inequities in how people experience social care.
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Department of Work, Employment & Organisation at Strathclyde Business School
Hard-hitting news & comment for the left. Subscribe to our daily newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/y8mwvvbq
Economic Geographer at University of Bristol; co-Editor-in-Chief Geoforum. Research interests: Work; Welfare; Care; Austerity; Gender; Class; Neoliberalism; Inequality.
AGS, TUC, probably some other three letter acronyms
Journalist at @tbij.bsky.social. I cover inequality, precarious work and migration.
You can contact me on emilianomellino@tbij.com
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/emilianomellino
https://linktr.ee/emiliano.mellino
The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Chief features writer, Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg. Research interests: Sustainable welfare beyond productivism & Eco-social policy for post-growth futures
Work and employment academic | Research considers the intersection between disability or impairment, philosophy and work. Recent and ongoing studies: #stammering #dementia #menopause
BAM SIG Chair for Cultural and Creative Industries
Interested in the future of creative and craft work
📍Fife, Scotland
The voice of working people in Europe - together for quality jobs, higher wages and a just transition.
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
General Secretary of the BFAWU, Current President of the GFTU, TUC General Council member and Vice chair of CTUF and Unions 21
PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching trade unions, union renewal, organising, data.
Professor of Human Resource Management. Researcher of professional, responsible & extreme work/workers; younger workers; talent. Associate Director of Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR). Views are my own
