Professor Melanie Simms

Professor of Work and Employment (Management)
Dean of Research and Deputy Head of College (Social Sciences College Senior Management)

email: Melanie.Simms@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Room 107, 66 Oakfield Ave, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Biography

Melanie Simms is Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School. She is also Dean of Research in the College of Social Science.

Her research focuses on the collective representation of both workers and employers in industrial relations structures. She is also interested in how employers make decisions responding to labour market policies including, but not only, around skills and training.

She has worked around the UK at the University of Leicester, University of Warwick, University of Kent, Cardiff University and the University of Oxford.

Research interests

Melanie is a member of the School's Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

Worker voice - especially trade union representation
Collective representation of employers
Responses of employers to labour market policies
Young workers
Skills and training

Publications

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Number of items: 78.

2024

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2024) The dynamics shaping experiences and prospects of employer coordination in a Liberal Market Economy: The case of Scotland. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 45(3), pp. 606-628. (doi: 10.1177/0143831X231180936)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2024) A new deal for workers: Labour's plan and the future of union relations. IPPR Progressive Review, 31(2), pp. 163-167. (doi: 10.1111/newe.12390)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2024) Radical pluralism, high inflation, and trust in historical context: the continued relevance of Fox in understanding UK public sector strikes. Employee Relations, (doi: 10.1108/ER-08-2023-0412) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Lee, Jeong-Hee, Je-seong, Park, Son, Young-woo, Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Sheldon, Peter and Della Torre, Eduardo (2022) 노동시장 및 고용정책: 사용자단체 의의와 역할 = Labour Market and Employment Policy: Significance and Role of User Organizations. Project Report. Korean Labour Institute.

2021

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2021) Social Dialogue in Scotland: Experiences of Employers and their Representative Organisations in Policy Making around Skills and Training. Project Report. Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

Meardi, Guglielmo, Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Adam, Duncan (2021) Trade unions and precariat in Europe: Representative claims. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 27(1), pp. 41-58. (doi: 10.1177/0959680119863585)

2019

Grady, Jo and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2019) Trade unions and the challenge of fostering solidarities in an era of financialisation. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 40(3), pp. 490-510. (doi: 10.1177/0143831x18759792)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Holgate, Jane and Roper, Carl (2019) The Trades Union Congress 150 years on: a review of the organising challenges and responses to the changing nature of work. Employee Relations, 41(2), pp. 331-343. (doi: 10.1108/ER-09-2018-0242)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2019) What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work? Series: What do we know and what should we do about. SAGE: London. ISBN 9781526463463

2018

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2018) Why workers go on strike. Conversation,

Hopkins, Benjamin and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2018) Bargaining and Social Dialogue in the Public Sector (BARSOP): United Kingdom Report. Project Report. AIAS - UVA.

Holgate, Jane, Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Tapia, Maite (2018) The limitations of the theory and practice of mobilization in trade union organizing. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 39(4), pp. 599-616. (doi: 10.1177/0143831X18777608)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Eversberg, Dennis, Dupuy, Camille and Hipp, Lena (2018) Organizing young workers under precarious conditions: what hinders or facilitates union success? Work and Occupations, 45(4), pp. 420-450. (doi: 10.1177/0730888418785947)

2017

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2017) Understanding employer engagement in youth labour market policy in the UK. Human Resource Management Journal, 27(4), pp. 548-564. (doi: 10.1111/1748-8583.12155)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2017) How Organisations Are Adapting to New Labour Markets and Employment. 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-8 July 2017.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Tapia, M. and Holgate, J. (2017) The Limits of Theory and Practice of Mobilization in Union Organizing. BUIRA 2017: The Changing Face of Industrial Relations: New Borders, New Frontiers, Portsmouth, UK, 28-30 June 2017.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Wilson, D. and Robertson, A. (2017) The Role of Employers in Young People's Labour Market Transitions. International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Sheffield, UK, 4-6 April 2017.

Murphy, Caroline and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2017) Tripartite responses to young workers and precarious employment in the EU. In: Parry, Emma and McCarthy, Jean (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work. Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, pp. 345-369. ISBN 9781137467799

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2017) Unions and job quality in the UK. Work and Occupations, 44(1), pp. 47-67. (doi: 10.1177/0730888415618729)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2017) Community unionism. In: Encyclopaedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Wiley Blackwell.

2016

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Hopkins, B. (2016) Negotiating Wage Inequality in the UK. British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA), 66th Annual Conference, Leeds, UK, 29 June- 1 July 2016.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2016) One Year On: Employment Relations under the Conservative Government. Annual Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture, Manchester Industrial Relations Society, Manchester, UK, 28 April 2016.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2016) Conceptualising Interests in Industrial Relations Theory. International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Berlin, Germany, 4-6 April 2016.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2016) The Future of Work: Labour Market Policy, Collective Regulation and Some Reflections on Theory. Future of Work Hub Launch Event, University of Sussex, 13 April 2016.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Hopkins, B. (2016) Negotiating Wage Inequality in the UK. International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Berlin, Germany, 4-6 April 2016.

Beck, Vanesss, Brook, Paul, Carter, Bob, Clark, Ian, Danford, Andy, Hammer, Nik, Kanji, Shireen and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2016) Work, employment and society sans frontières: extending and deepening our reach. Work, Employment and Society, 30(2), pp. 211-219. (doi: 10.1177/0950017015613747)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2016) Union organizing. In: Wilkinson, Adrian and Johnstone, Stewart (eds.) Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 463-464. ISBN 9781783475452

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2016) Young workers. In: Wilkinson, Adrian and Johnstone, Stewart (eds.) Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 496-497. ISBN 9781783475452

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Gamwell, Sophie and Hopkins, Benjamin (2016) The coalition’s youth employment policies: addressing a structural challenge. In: Williams, Steve and Scott, Peter (eds.) Employment Relations under Coalition Government: The UK Experience, 2010-2015. Routledge: New York, pp. 49-65. ISBN 9781138887008 (doi: 10.4324/9781315714431-3)

2015

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2015) Accounting for greenfield union organizing outcomes. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 53(3), pp. 397-422. (doi: 10.1111/bjir.12072)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2015) Rail workers union strikes a blow for collective bargaining. Conversation,

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2015) Britain’s battered unions have new battles round the corner. Conversation,

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Grady, J. (2015) Trade Unions and Financialisation: the Challenge to Building Solidarities in Times of Crisis. BUIRA Midlands, April 2015.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Dean, Deborah (2015) Mobilising contingent workers: An analysis of two successful cases. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 36(1), pp. 173-190. (doi: 10.1177/0143831X13501000)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2015) Measures to Protect Low-Paid and Unpaid Interns in the United Kingdom. Other. Korea Labour Institute.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2015) Union organizing as an alternative to partnership. Or what to do when employers can't keep their side of the bargain. In: Johnstone, Stewart and Ackers, Peter (eds.) Finding a Voice at Work?: New Perspectives on Employment Relations. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 127-152. ISBN 9780199668014

2014

Simms, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Holgate, J. and Heery, E. (2014) Evaluating union organising in the UK. Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology, 7, pp. 53-76.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2014) The curriculum vitae. [Website]

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Holgate, J. and Heery, E. (2014) Evaluating union organising in the UK. In: Czarzasty, J. and Mrozowicki, A. (eds.) Trade Union Organising in Europe: Research and Practice. Scholar: Warszawa, pp. 17-40.

2013

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2013) Workplace trade union activists in UK service sector organising campaigns. Industrial Relations Journal, 44(4), pp. 373-388. (doi: 10.1111/irj.12028)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Hopkins, Ben and Gamwell, Sophie (2013) Skills for Sustainable Employment: Strategies to Tackle Youth Unemployment. Documentation. unionlearn, London.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Holgate, Jane and Heery, Edmund (2013) Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y..

2012

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2012) Imagined solidarities: Where is class in union organising? Capital and Class, 36(1), pp. 97-115. (doi: 10.1177/0309816811430840)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2012) Young Workers during the Crisis: Hit Hardest and Scared Longest. Discussion Paper. Unions21, London.

2011

Heery, Edmund and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2011) Seizing an opportunity? Union organizing campaigns in Britain, 1998–2004. Labor History, 52(1), pp. 23-47. (doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2011.545201)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2011) Les militants de terrain dans les campagnes d'implantation syndicale dans le secteur des services en Grande-Bretagne. Revue de l'Ires, 68(1), pp. 75-108. (doi: 10.3917/rdli.068.0075)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2011) Appropriating the brand: union organizing in front-line service work. In: Brannan, Matthew J., Parsons, Elizabeth and Priola, Vincenza (eds.) Branded Lives: The Production and Consumption of Meaning at Work. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 148-167. ISBN 9781849800921 (doi: 10.4337/9780857938145.00015)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2011) Helping Young Workers during the Crisis: Contributions by Social Partners and Public Authorities. Documentation. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2011) Trade Union Responses to Precarious Work: UK Report. Project Report. BARSORI.

2010

Heery, Edmund and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2010) Employer responses to union organising: patterns and effects. Human Resource Management Journal, 20(1), pp. 3-22. (doi: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2009.00102.x)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Holgate, Jane (2010) Organising for what? Where is the debate on the politics of organising? Work, Employment and Society, 24(1), pp. 157-168. (doi: 10.1177/0950017010361413)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Holgate, Jane (2010) TUC Organizing Academy 10 years on: what has been the impact on British unions? International Journal of Human Resource Management, 21(3), pp. 355-370. (doi: 10.1080/09585190903546896)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2010) Trade Union Strategies to Recruit New Groups of Workers - United Kingdom. Documentation. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Charlwood, A. (2010) Trade unions: power and influence in a changed context. In: Colling, T. and Terry, M. (eds.) Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice. Wiley: London, pp. 125-148. ISBN 9781444308853

2008

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Holgate, Jane (2008) TUC’s organising academy celebrates 10th birthday. [Website]

Heery, Edmund and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2008) Constraints on union organising in the United Kingdom. Industrial Relations Journal, 39(1), pp. 24-42. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2007.00472.x)

Holgate, J. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2008) 10 Years of the Organising Academy. Documentation. TUC.

2007

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2007) Interest formation in greenfield union organising campaigns. Industrial Relations Journal, 38(5), pp. 439-454. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2007.00457.x)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2007) Managed activism: two union organising campaigns in the not-for-profit sector. Industrial Relations Journal, 38(2), pp. 119-135. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2007.00439.x)

Heery, E. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2007) Employer Responses to Union Organising in the United Kingdom. Working Paper. Cardiff Human Resource Management.

2006

Heery, E. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2006) Union organising under certification law in Britain. In: Gall, G. (ed.) Union Recognition: Organising and Bargaining Outcomes. Routledge: London.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2006) The transition from organizing to recognition: a case study. In: Gall, G. (ed.) Union Recognition: Organising and Bargaining Outcomes. Routledge: London.

2004

Wills, Jane and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2004) Building reciprocal community unionism in the UK. Capital and Class, 28(1), pp. 59-84. (doi: 10.1177/030981680408200105)

Heery, E., Delbridge, R., Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Stewart, P. (2004) Trade union responses to non-standard work. In: Healy, G., Heery, E., Taylor, P. and Brown, W. (eds.) The Future of Worker Representation. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-150. ISBN 9781403917591

2003

Heery, E., Delbridge, R., Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Salmon, J. and Simpson, D. (2003) Organising for renewal: a case study of the TUC's Organising Academy. In: Cornfield, D. and McCammon, H. (eds.) Labor Revitalization. Series: Research in the sociology of work. JAI Press: New York.

Heery, E. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2003) Bargaining or Bust: Employer Responses to Union Organising. Documentation. TUC.

Heery, E., Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Delbridge, R., Salmon, J. and Simpson, D. (2003) Trade union recruitment policy in Britain: form and effects. In: Gall, Gregor (ed.) Union Organizing: Campaigning for Trade Union Recognition. Routledge: London.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2003) Organising front-line service workers: evidence from four union campaigns. In: White, G., Corby, S. and Stanworth, C. (eds.) Regulation, De-regulation and Re-regulation: The Scope of Employment Relations in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of IERA. University of Greenwich.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2003) Union organizing in the not-for-profit sector. In: Gall, Gregor (ed.) Union Organizing: Campaigning for Trade Union Recognition. Routledge: London.

2002

Heery, E., Delbridge, R. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2002) The Organising Academy. Documentation. TUC.

Heery, E., Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Conley, H., Delbridge, R. and Stewart, P. (2002) Trade Unions and the Flexible Workforce: A Survey Analysis of Union Policy and Practice. Working Paper. ESRC Future of Work Programme.

2001

Heery, E., Delbridge, R., Salmon, J. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2001) Global labour? The transfer of the organising model to the United Kingdom. In: Debrah, Y. and Smith, I. (eds.) Globalisation, Employment and the Workplace: Patterns of Diversity. Routledge: London.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Heery, Edmund and Farias, Claudette (2001) Contingent work in the public sector: a survey of fixed-term contract workers in higher education. Management Research News, 24(10/11), pp. 54-55. (doi: 10.1108/01409170110782973)

Speidel, F. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2001) The implications of economic globalisation on French and German industrial relations: the examples of the German and French automotive industries. In: Debrah, Y. and Smith, I. (eds.) Globalisation, Employment and the Workplace: Patterns of Diversity. Routledge: London.

2000

Heery, Edmund, Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Delbridge, Rick, Salmon, John and Simpson, Dave (2000) The TUC's Organising Academy: an assessment. Industrial Relations Journal, 31(5), pp. 400-415. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2338.00173)

Heery, Edmund, Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Delbridge, Rick, Salmon, John and Simpson, Dave (2000) Union organizing in Britain: a survey of policy and practice. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 11(5), pp. 986-1007. (doi: 10.1080/095851900422384)

Heery, Edmund, Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Simpson, Dave, Delbridge, Rick and Salmon, John (2000) Organizing unionism comes to the UK. Employee Relations, 22(1), pp. 38-57. (doi: 10.1108/EUM0000000005307)

Wills, J. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2000) Building Reciprocal Community Unionism in the UK. Working Paper. Department of Geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London.

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Number of items: 78.

Articles

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2018) Why workers go on strike. Conversation,

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2017) Unions and job quality in the UK. Work and Occupations, 44(1), pp. 47-67. (doi: 10.1177/0730888415618729)

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2015) Rail workers union strikes a blow for collective bargaining. Conversation,

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2015) Britain’s battered unions have new battles round the corner. Conversation,

Simms, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Holgate, J. and Heery, E. (2014) Evaluating union organising in the UK. Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology, 7, pp. 53-76.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2012) Imagined solidarities: Where is class in union organising? Capital and Class, 36(1), pp. 97-115. (doi: 10.1177/0309816811430840)

Books

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622, Holgate, Jane and Heery, Edmund (2013) Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y..

Book Sections

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2017) Community unionism. In: Encyclopaedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Wiley Blackwell.

Research Reports or Papers

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2015) Measures to Protect Low-Paid and Unpaid Interns in the United Kingdom. Other. Korea Labour Institute.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2012) Young Workers during the Crisis: Hit Hardest and Scared Longest. Discussion Paper. Unions21, London.

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2011) Trade Union Responses to Precarious Work: UK Report. Project Report. BARSORI.

Holgate, J. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2008) 10 Years of the Organising Academy. Documentation. TUC.

Heery, E. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2007) Employer Responses to Union Organising in the United Kingdom. Working Paper. Cardiff Human Resource Management.

Heery, E. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2003) Bargaining or Bust: Employer Responses to Union Organising. Documentation. TUC.

Heery, E., Delbridge, R. and Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2002) The Organising Academy. Documentation. TUC.

Conference or Workshop Item

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2017) How Organisations Are Adapting to New Labour Markets and Employment. 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-8 July 2017.

Website

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 (2014) The curriculum vitae. [Website]

Simms, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-5622 and Holgate, Jane (2008) TUC’s organising academy celebrates 10th birthday. [Website]

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Grants

Worker voice and the future of work: a comparative study of UK and Australian union leaders . Funded by Sydney-Glasgow Partnership. £11,875. Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 with Professor Rae Cooper, Dr Sarah Mosseri. SUSPENDED DUE TO COVID-19

Opportunities to build effective employer representation in policy making . Funded by Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) and Impact Acceleration Account £14,744. October 2019 to Sept 2021

The effect of English-only instruction on skill formation and labour market readiness of young Malawians. Funded by SFC-GCRF. £58,234. Oct 2018 to June 2019. With Dr Kristinn Herrmansson (PI) and Dr Colin Reilly.

Bargaining for Social Rights in the Public Sector (BARSOP). Funded by European Commission
VP/2015/004. €345,009. April 2016 to April 2018. Led by Professor Maarten Keune (University of Amsterdam).

Negotiating Wage (In)Equality (NEWIN). Funded by European Commission. VP/2014/004. €264,112. January 2015 to Dec 2016. Led by Professor Maarten Keune (University of Amsterdam).

Young workers and Trade Unions. Funded by Hans Böckler Stiftung. €200,000. August 2014 to August 2018. Led by Professor Lowell Turner (Cornell University).

Representation of the losers of the crisis. Funded by British Academy Small Grant . £9,447. Sept 2015 to August 2016. Led by Professor Guglielmo Meardi.

Precarious Pathways to Employment for Young People? Funded by Economic and Social Research Council. ES/L007657/1. £781,097. May 2014 to May 2017. Led by Professor Kate Purcell.

Bargaining for social rights at sectoral level (BARSORIS). Funded by European Commission
VP/2013/001. €180,570. January 2014 to November 2014. Led by Professor Maarten Keune (University of Amsterdam).

Employer experiences of hiring young workers. Funded by British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. MD130010. £121,400. September 2013 to August 2014.

Youth unemployment. Funded by UnionLearn. £33,330. October 2012 – March 2013.

Bargaining for Social Rights (BARSORI). Funded by European Commission. VS/2010/0811. €158,443 March – November 2011. Led by Professor Maarten Keune (University of Amsterdam).

Young workers and precarious employment. Funded by Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Warwick £3,100. June – July 2011.

Young workers and precarious employment. Funded by Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series. ES/I001735/1. £17,000. September 2010 to September 2012. Led by Dr Lefteris Kretsos.

An evaluation of recent developments in trade union organiser training. Funded by Nuffield Foundation. £11,756. September 2006 to December 2007. Led by Dr Jane Holgate.

Supervision

Melanie is keen to supervise students with an interest in worker voice, trade unionism and union organising. She also has interests in how young workers are managed in the workplace and how labour market policies affect management decision making.

Current supervision

Artale, Wilko Mattia
Inequalities in the fourth industrial revolution; negotiating the introduction of innovative work practices
Doran, Jim
Trade unions' strategic use of data to strengthen the effectiveness and outcomes of their union building efforts.
MacNeil, Michael
An exploration of senior union officials’ ability to bring about strategic changes within and across trade unions, and factors influencing their views on how to build workers’ power across the UK economy

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Professor of Work and Employment, Management, Melanie Simms

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