If you are a postgraduate student, the WES Postgraduate Workshop will be an excellent opportunity to get feedback from senior employment researchers and to meet other students. You will be given an opportunity to present your ideas to a panel including:
- Professor Chris Warhurst (Strathclyde), a current WES editor, who has conducted extensive qualitative case study research on the labour process, low waged work and aesthetic labour;
- Professor Jacqueline O’Reilly (Brighton) who has conducted qualitative and quantitative research on gender and employment, working time, atypical employment and the influence of caring on employment in Britain, Germany and France;
- Dr Tiziana Nazio (Turin) who has conducted quantitative research on the relationship between family formation, fertility and employment; and
Dr Guglielmo Meardi (Warwick) who has worked on multi-national companies, industrial relations and migration in East and Western Europe.
The workshop will also include a session on how to get your research published, presented by Professor Warhurst.
The postgraduate workshop will be held at the University of Brighton before the conference, on 6 September 2010. The event will be provided free of charge (although you will need to pay student-rate fees for the conference itself and to cover accommodation costs).
To apply for a place, please submit 1,000–1,500 words explaining the questions your research will address, the research methodology to be used, and how it will contribute to current academic knowledge in the area. This must be e-mailed to David Lain at Brighton University by 16 April 2010.
If you have any questions please get in contact with David Lain or Bob Smale, who are organising the event.
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Participants who would like their paper to be considered for an award of Best Papers are encouraged to submit a full draft of their paper by Friday, 21 May 2010, by email.
Papers are encouraged on any of the key themes covered in the journal and using any relevant methodologies.
- Maximum length 7000 words (word count to appear on first page)
- Address a key issue of the journal
- Display originality in theoretical, methodological or empirical dimensions
The prizes for best papers will be awarded at the conference.
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