LLAKES Public Seminar – Professor Alan Felstead and Dr Nick Jewson
August 31st, 2010 | 2010 Autumn, Events, News | 0 Comments
Immunity from recession? The impact of the current recession on the extent,
form and patterns of training at work
Professor Alan Felstead and Dr Nick Jewson
In 2008 the UK entered the deepest recession since at least the Second World War and arguably since the 1930s. Output has fallen more quickly and has reached far lower levels than in more recent recessions. This has resulted in unemployment rising (albeit slower than expected), total working hours declining, part-time working rising and earnings stagnating. However, relatively little is known about how workplace training and learning activity have fared. This seminar will present preliminary findings from an ESRC/UKCES funded project which aims to update and extend previous research in the light of the current economic downturn. The aim of the session will be to promote discussion about a timely and significant aspect of the labour market which has received little coverage in either the academic or policy-making literatures.
Alan Felstead is Research Professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. His research focuses on: the quality of work; training, skills and learning; non-standard employment; and the spaces and places of work. He has completed over 30 funded research projects (including eight funded by the ESRC), produced six books, and written over 150 journal articles, book chapters and research reports. His recent books include: Improving Working as Learning (with Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin), London: Routledge, 2009; and Changing Places of Work (with Nick Jewson and Sally Walters), London: Routledge, 2005. He is currently a Visiting Professor at LLAKES.
Nick Jewson is a Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
The event is free but booking is required. Please email LLAKES – llakesevents@ioe.ac.uk to confirm your place.




