Wickham, James (TCD)

James is Jean Monnet Professor of European Labour Market Studies in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin and Director of the Employment Research Centre. His original research includes a PhD on the labour movement in Weimar Germany and he is currently researching the migration of skilled knowledge workers (computer scientists, electronics engineers) within Europe, and is writing a book on European social structure. He has researched industrialisation and the labour market in contemporary Ireland, especially 'high tech' industry (electronics and software).

James has carried out consultancy work for Irish public and private sector organisations, the European Foundation and the European Commission. Within the EU TSER programme he co-ordinated Project SceneSusTech, a comparative analysis of car dependency in European cities and Project Servemploi, on women's service sector employment and the information society. He is currently directing Project Infowork, an 'Accompanying Measure' within Fifth Framework Programme, this evaluates the lessons of European employment research for the continued viability of the European Social Model. He has recently developed an interest in the social aspects of sustainable transport systems.

Selected Publications:

• Wickham, J. and Lohan M. (2000) 'Dublin's Car System' in M. Peillon and E. Slater (eds.) Memories of the Present: A Sociological Chronicle of Ireland 1997-1998 (Irish Sociological Chronicles Volume 2 1997-98), Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, pp. 77-88.

• Wickham, J. (1998) 'Squaring the Circle? Participation, Innovation and Employment - some results from the EPOC survey', Transfer - Quarterly of the European Trade Union Institute, 4.2, 231-245.

• Wickham, J. (1998) 'The Golden Geese Fly the Internet: Some research issues in the migration of Irish professionals', Economic and Social Review. vol. 29. no.1, 33-54.

• Wickham, J. (1998) 'An Intelligent Island?' in M. Peillon and E. Slater (eds.) Fragments of Modern Ireland (Irish Sociological Chronicles Volume 1 1995-96), Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, pp. 75-83.

• Wickham, J. (1997) 'Killing the Goose that Laid the Golden German Egg? Financial deregulation and the changing preconditions of corporatism,' The Search for Competitiveness (volume 4 of the official proceedings of the fifth IIRA European Regional Industrial Relations Congress, Dublin), pp. 191-202.

• Wickham J. (1997) 'Where is Ireland in the Global Information Society?' Economic and Social Review, vol 11. no 3, 277-294.

• Wickham J. (1997) 'Who Wants What Where? Part-Time Work in Ireland and Europe' Work, Employment and Society 11.1, 133-155.

• Wickham J. (1992) 'Irish Engineers: Education for Emigration?' in G. Lee and C. Smith (eds.), Engineers and Management: International Comparisons. London: Routledge, pp. 162-183.

Collins, Grainne (TCD)

Grainne is a Research Fellow at the Employment Research Centre, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. Her broad research agenda could be termed social exclusion/inclusion. Under this broad area she has examined poverty and inequality in the UK, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Hungary. She has also looked at broad anti-poverty measures in developed and developing countries. A long-term interest of hers, has been the movement between non-paid work or non-work and paid-work. She is now working on a three-year Europe-wide study of women's employment and career prospects in the Information Society (Servemploi), with participation from eight European Union countries, co-ordinated by the ERC. Gráinne is also on the council of the European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economy and edits the EAEPE newsletter.

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