| commissioned by |
date
|
subject
|
European Commission DG Research
|
|
Critical policy review of selected
projects funded under the TSER ( 4th Framework) and DPH (5th Framework) Programmes
relating to employement and training in the Information Society
|
European Commission DG Research
|
|
Various commissions to evaluate
proposals and provide expert inputs into wording of calls
|
European Commission DG Information
Society
|
|
JANUS-concertation project
designed to generate an overview of socio-economic research carried out under
the IST programme in the 5th Framework (UK partner)
|
Asia Institute of Technology
|
|
SOM Conference on Globalisation,
Innovation and Human Development in Bangkok, in association with the Asian
EMERGENCE project (project director and AIT)
|
Asia ITC Programme
|
|
Asian EMERGENCE -extension
of the EMERGENCE Project to 10 Asian countries (project director)
|
European Commission DG Information
Society
|
2002-4
|
RESPECT Project, to develop
professional and ethical codes for socio-economic research in the Information
Society (project director)
|
Government of Flanders
|
2002-3
|
Belgian EMERGENCE -extension
of EMERGENCE project to include additional case studies and survey of small
firms in Belgium (joint project director with HIVA)
|
Government of Ireland
|
2002
|
Irish EMERGENCE - extension
of EMERGENCE project to include survey of small firms in Ireland (joint project
director with CTC)
|
Government of Flanders, ETUC
and Belgian Telework Association
|
2002
|
WWWe (the World, the Workplace
and We, the Workers) Global conference linked to EMERGENCE project (joint
project director with Catholic University of Leuven)
|
HK Denmark
|
2001-2
|
Danish EMERGENCE- extension
of EMERGENCE project to include survey of small firms in Denmark (joint project
director with DTI)
|
European Commision DG Information
Society
|
1999-2002
|
Various commiossions to carry
out proposals evaluation, expert consultancy and project reviews
|
| European Commission, DG Information
Society (with IES) |
2001
|
STILE - Statistical Indicators
of e-Work, UK partners in a project led by HIVA in Leuven, Belgium
|
European Commission, DG Information
Society (with IES)
|
2000
|
WEDGE - Where in the
World? e-work location in a digital global economy, International conference
in Budapest in connection with the EMERGENCE project
|
Various Austrialian Government
Departments
|
2000-2
|
Australian EMERGENCE-extension
of the EMERGENCE project to include case studies in Australia (joint project
director with Edith Cowan University, Perth)
|
Social Sciences and Humanities
Funding Council, Canada
|
2000-1
|
Canadian EMERGENCE- extension
of the EMERGENCE project to include case studies in Canada (joint project
director with Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
|
European Commission,
DG Information Society (with IES)
|
2000
|
EMERGENCE
- Estimation and Mapping of Employment Relocation in a Global Economy
in the New Communications Environment |
European Commission, DG Information
Society
|
2000-2
|
TOSCA- 8-country study of social
conditions in call centres (UK partner)
|
| European Commission, DG Information Society |
2000
|
TOSCA - Study of social issues in call
centres |
| European Commission DGV |
2000
|
Euro-Telework
Project - Teleworking and Equal Opportunities |
| European Commission DG XIII |
1999
|
Assessement of coverage of socio-economic
issues and research in Information Society Technologies (IST) programme
of Fifth Framework Programme |
| European Commission
DG XIII |
1999
|
Evaluation, Fifth
Framework Programme, RTD proposals under the IST programme |
| Gulbenkian Foundation
and Mitel (with the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) and the Telecottage
Association) |
1999
|
Virtual Call Centres
and their potential for providing employment for disadvantaged groups
(including two international internet surveys, case studies and literature
survey) |
| European Commission
DG XII, under the Targetted Socio-Economic Research Programme (with IES) |
1998-2000
|
UK partner in
SOWING
(Information Society, Work and Social Exclusion) including regional report,
company survey, case studies, analysis of secondary data and literature
survey |
| ILO |
1998
|
Global review
of evidence on teleworking |
| UNU/INTECH (with
funding from UNDP and IDRC) |
1997-8
|
Teleworking and
teletrade in India and Malaysia. Research design and project management,
including two large company surveys, case studies, literature review and
policy research |
| European Commission
and UK Government |
1997 and 1998
|
Evaluation of
proposals under the ADAPT initiative |
| European Commission
DGV Equal Opportunities Unit |
1996
|
Rapporteur, of
meeting held on January 14th to consider the summary of the interim
report of the High-level Group of Experts on 'Building the European Information
Sociery for Us All' from the perspective of gender issues |
| Local Government
Management Board |
1996
|
Review of evidence
on teleworking in local government in the UK, including the development
of local telematic strategies |
| NUTEK (Swedish
Government) |
1996
|
Organisation of
two conferences on teleworking and gender and editing a book on the subject |
| Swedish Ministry
of Labour |
1996-7
|
Expert advice
to Commission on Women's Unemployment and Commission on Telework |
| Advisory, Conciliation
and Arbitration Service (ACAS) (with IES) |
1995-6
|
Assessment of
homeworking in ACAS, including postal survery, key informant interviews,
in-depth interviews and focus groups and production of policy recommendations |
| Symantec |
1996
|
Review of evidence
on mobile teleworking in Europe |
| Rural Development
Commission (with IES) |
1995-6
|
Teleworking and
rural development. Research design, literature survey, key informant interviews,
data analysis and interpretation and report writing |
| UK Department
of Transport (DOT), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department
of the Environment (DoE), Employment Department (ED) and Employment Service
(ES) |
1995-6
|
Overview of research
on teleworking with reference to the policy agenda of each government
department, including recommendations for future research |
| European Commission,
DGV Equal Opportunities Unit |
1995-6
|
Teleworking and
Gender. Director of research project with partners in the Netherlands,
Sweden and Greece, including Europe-wide survey, review of literature,
case studies and production of good practice guidelines |
| European Commission,
DGV, Employment Task Force (with the Citizens Income Trust) |
1995-6
|
Flexible Labour
Markets and Benefit Systems. Director of research project with partners
in Germany, Greece and Sweden |
| National Group
on Homeworking (NGH) |
1994
|
National survey
of homeworkers in manufacturing and low-paid service employment - data
analysis and interpretation, report-writing and policy recommendations |
| European Commission
DGV (Employment Task Force) |
1994
|
Production of
report on teleworking in the follow- up to the Jacques Delors White Paper
on Employment, Growth and Competitieveness |
| International
Labour Organisation |
1994
|
Production of
report on ten case-studies of Homeworkers' Organisations in Europe, Asia,
Australia and the Americas |
| International
Labour Organisation |
1993
|
Guidelines for
good practice in the employment of homeworkers and teleworkers |
| European Commission,
DG XIII |
1993
|
Europe-wide survey
of contractual arrangements for the employment of teleworkers, with case
studies in each EU country |
| Employment Department |
1992-3
|
Teleworking In
Britain. Prevalence study of telework (random survey of 1,000 employers)
survey of telework managers and case studies of organisations using telework.
Production of four reports and good practice guidelines. |
| Consortium of
six London Training and EnterpriseCouncils (with NOP) |
1992-3
|
Survey of 3,000
London employers, and follow-up survey of 1,200 of them. Background research
on the London Labour Market and the production of six local reports and
four London-wide reports |
| EC DG XIII ORA
Programme (with Empirica) |
1992
|
MITRE Project.
Development of a taxonomy for the analysis of telework and 100case studies
of companies using various forms of telework |
| West London Training
and Enterprise Council (TEC) |
1991-2
|
Feasibility study
for pooling of resources of nine London TECs to carry out a single London-wide
annual labour market survey |
| South Glamorgan
Council |
1991
|
Update of report
on local impact of the Single European Market |
| Sheffield City
Council |
1991
|
Update of report
on local impact of the Single European Market |
| West London TEC |
1991
|
Overview of trends
in the West London economy with special reference to skill enterprise
policies and projections to 1996 |
| Leicester City
Council |
1991
|
Regional and sectoral
impact of the Single European Market |
| Mercury Communications
|
1991
|
Impact of changing
work organisation patterns on telecommunications usage with particular
focus on teleworking (overview, case studies and presentations) |
| European Social
Fund (with Empirica) |
1990
|
EEC-wide comparative
survey of data and literature on women as carers |
| European Foundation
for the Improvement Living and Working Conditions (with Empirica) |
1990
|
Public attitudes
to biotechnology. Literature review and organisation of national seminar
and focus groups |
| Industrial Restructuring
Network Europe (IRENE |
1990
|
Rapporteur for
international seminar on the globalisation of service industries and its
implications for Third World economies, with particular reference to women's
employment |
| Mid-Glamorgan
County Council |
1990
|
Regional and sectoral
impact of the Single European Market |
| South Glamorgan
County Council |
1990
|
Regional and sectoral
impact of the Single European Market |
| Sheffield City
Council |
1990
|
Regional and sectoral
impact of the Single European Market |
| London Borough
of Hammersmith and Fulham |
1990
|
Regional and sectoral
impact of the Single European Market |
| International
Labour Organisation |
1990
|
Case studies of
telework in the UK |
| South China Morning
Post (with the UK Hong Kong Research Group) |
1989
|
Impact of mass
immigration from Hong Kong on the UK economy |
| London Borough
of Hammersmith and Fulham |
1989
|
Revision of Equal
Opportunities code of practice; production of guidelines for managers
and information packs for staff |
| EC DG XIII ESPRIT
Programme (with Empirica). |
1989
|
Several major
surveys, investigations and case-studies on the 'elusive office',the development
of mobile work and the increasing freedom from space constraints of work
involving information processing |
| World Health Organisation
|
1989
|
Membership of
expert working group drawing up international guidelines for the safe use
of VDUs (VDTs) |
| EC DG V Women's
Bureau (with University of Leiden and Jennifer Hurstfield) |
1988-89
|
Co-organiser and
rapporteur for international seminar on flexibility and women's work, and
the production of a booklet on the subject. |
| European Foundation
for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions |
1988-89
|
Membership of
technical working party designing a Europe-wide survey of 'New Forms of
Work and Activity' and organisation of pilot survey in the UK |
| Equal Opportunities
Commission |
1988
|
Production of
guidelines for negotiators on the avoidance of sex discrimination in collective
bargaining |
| Inner London Education
Authority, Equal Opportunities Unit |
1988
|
Production of
information pack for manual workers on job search |
| Channel 4 television
|
1988
|
Women's Rights
at Work - Production of booklet to accompany series of television programmes
on women's employment |
| London Borough
of Brent |
1988
|
Women's employment
in Brent - research and report |
| EC DG XIII - ESPRIT
Programme and |
1987-88
|
Worldwide survey
of the literature on telework and an evaluation of existing practices
and assessment of the potential for teleworking in Europe; analysis of
data from three international surveys of telework (of the employed population,
employers and practising teleworkers) and the production of reports. |
| British Telecom
(BT) |
1987
|
Consultancy on
the potential for the development of telework in the UK and the establishment
of an internal telework programme within BT |
| European Foundation
for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (with Empirica) |
1986
|
Background research
and organisation of a seminar on the potential for telework in the UK
Banking, Insuranceand software industries, with participants from the
industries concerned, telecommunications, hardware and software suppliers,
Government departments, trade unions and other interested parties and production
of a report |
| London Strategic
Policy Unit |
1986
|
Equal Opportunities
in Local Government. Survey of collective bargaining agreements in London
boroughs to produce an overview of policies relating to low pay and equal
opportunities and a discussion document for negotiators. |
| London Hazards
Centre |
1985-6
|
Review of the
literature on the health hazards of visual display units and a survey of
best practices in their operation with particular reference to job design |
| GLC Equal Opportunities
Group |
1985
|
Employment needs
of people with severe disabilities with particular reference to information
technology and homeworking. Review of the relevant literature and a survey
of people with severe disabilities, both those currently employed as teleworkers
and those seeking work. |
| GLC Equal Opportunities
Group |
1985
|
Survey of childcare
facilities in London. A borough-by- borough survey of under-fives care
in the public and private sectors, together with an analysis of local policies
and an overview of financial, administrative and pedagogic practices.
Production of two reports. |
| GLC Women's Committee
|
1984-5
|
Survey of resources
for working women in London and writing employment section of 'London
Women's Handbook' |
| GLC Industry and
Employment Branch. |
1984
|
Feasibility study
pn establishment of a resource centre for clerical in the City of London,
proposals for the structure and terms of reference for such a centre and
setting up the centre. |
| Public Enquiry
intoCable (GLC and Sheffield City Council) |
1984
|
Survey of literature
and analysis of data on the potential effects of cable networks on the
location and organisation of white-collar employment, including gender
impacts |
| GLC Equal Opportunities
Group |
1984
|
Career development
for keyboard operators. Survey of working conditions and promotion prospects
of approximately 300 keyboard operators within the GLC with special reference
to equal opportunities, health and safety and the impacts of technological
change. |
| Counter Information
Services |
1983
|
Overview of employment
in the banking and finance industries. Analysis of employment trends,
occupational segregation and the effects of technological change in the
banking and finance sectors in the UK |
| Low Pay Unit |
1983
|
Comparison of
the results of a 1983 survey of 'new' homeworkers with a sample of homeworkers
in traditional occupations. |
| GLC Industry and
Employment Branch. |
1983
|
Overview of trends
in office employment in Greater London. Survey of literature and analysis
of data on office location, employment trends, and the projected effects
of technological change. Drafting relevant sections of the London Industrial
Strategy. |
| Equal Opportunities
Commission |
1982-3
|
Home-based work
using new information technology and its implications for equalityof opportunity
between men and women. The first review of the literature on teleworking
(this was when the word was coined!) and survey of teleworkers. |
| Equal Opportunities
Commission (with TUCRIC) |
1980-82
|
The impact of
new technology on women's employment in West Yorkshire. A multi-method
research project including literature review, data analysis a survey of
local companies and case-studies. |
| Leeds Trade Union
and Community Resource and Information Centre (TUCRIC) |
1978-81
|
A variety of research
projects on economic, social and technological issues for local trade union,
women's and community groups. |
