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Personal Statement
Ian Cunningham is Professor of Employment Relations in the Department of HRM. He is an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and between 2010 - 2013 he was Treasurer of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA). Professor Cunningham's research interests include voluntary sector employment relations, sickness absence and disability management, employee involvement and participation and public sector employment relations during austerity. Professor Cunningham has published in a wide range of HR and public administration journals and has strong research links with scholars from Canada and Austrlia. He is currently supervising four Phd students.
Research Interests
Professor Ian Cunningham's research interests include employee relations in voluntary organisations, absence and disability management, employee involvement in voluntary organisations and employment relations in the public services during austerity. In recent years in has published a book with Routledge (2008) entitled 'Employment Relations in the Voluntary Sector'. In addition, with Professor Phil James he published an edited volume entitled 'Voluntary Organisations and Public Service Delivery', Routledge. This includes contributions from scholars from the UK, Canada, Australia and the United States. Ian has been involved in 7 funded research projects in recent years, including two with a international comparative aspect. Currently he is working with Professor Donna Baines of McMaster University on a project examining precarious work among the non-profit workforce. Ian is currently beginning work looking at employment conditions in voluntary and private care providers in Scotland. His other research interests include employee absence and disability, involvement and participation and public service employment during austerity. Professor Cunningham currently has four Phd students.
Teaching Interests
Professor Ian Cunningham currently teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate in employee relations.
Along with Dr Colin Lindsay Ian has developed an Honours level module in HRM and Employee Relations in Public Services.
Expertise & Capabilities
Non-profit employment relations
Social Care work
Impact of public service austerity
Union organising in the non-profit sector
Employment relations in the public sector
Absence and disability management
Involvement and participation
Line managers and employee relations
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Projects
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Benchmarking Pay and conditions 5
CCPS - Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland
12/10/18 → 30/04/19
Project: Research
Research Output
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Diaries from the front line - formal supervision and job quality among social care workers during austerity
Cunningham, I., Lindsay, C. & Roy, C., 12 Mar 2020, In : Human Resource Management Journal. 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Blurring allegiances within the service triangle: austerity, unemployment and customer abuse of migrant workers in the Cyprus food retail sector
Hadjisolomou, T. & Cunningham, I., 13 Feb 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Activities
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External Examiner HRM Programmes
Ian Cunningham (External Examiner)
1 Nov 2015 → 1 Nov 2018Activity: Examination types › Examination
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A view from here
Ian Cunningham (Keynote/plenary speaker)
21 Oct 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences
Impacts
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Flexible But Not Precarious: Towards a Sustainable Social Contract
Ian Cunningham (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Policy and legislation, Public understanding, information and debate
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Influencing employment relations policy and practice in the voluntary sector
Ian Cunningham (Participant) & Dennis Nickson (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Policy and legislation, Professional practice, training and standards
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