Publications

'We've not breached our side of the contract' : broken employment bargains and in-work poverty in the financialised hospitality sector

Walker Victoria, Cunningham Ian

Economic and Industrial Democracy (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X241297535

Work, wages and employment in the adult social care sector : evidence paper

Baldauf Beata, Grugulis Irena, Cunningham Ian, Kessler Ian, Wass Victoria, Onwumere Juliana, Shildrick Tracey, Forde Chris, Brown Malcolm, Grimshaw Damian

(2024)

Decent work and quality long-term care systems (full report)

Charlesworth Sara, Cunningham Ian, Daly Tamara

(2024)

Introducing Fair Work through 'soft' regulation in outsourced public service networks : explaining unintended outcomes in the implementation of the Scottish living wage policy

Cunningham Ian, James Philip, Baluch Alina, Cullen Anne Marie

Industrial Law Journal Vol 52, pp. 312-341 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwac023

Conceptualising employee voice in the majority world : using multiple intellectual traditions inspired by the work of Mick Marchington: employee voice in the majority world

Dibben Pauline, Cunningham Ian, Bakalov Nikola, Xian Huiping

Human Resource Management Journal Vol 33, pp. 564-577 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12473

'Reward to Retain' Evaluating the Impact of ENABLE and UNISON's Agreement to Improve Recruitment and Retention through Fair Work : Reward to Retain

Cunningham Ian, Baluch Alina, Jendro Eva, Scholarios Dora, Johnstone Stewart, James Philip

(2022)

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Teaching

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.

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.

Professional Activities

KE, Research and Learning and Development Meeting between Strathclyde University and Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector

Participant

14/8/2024

Simple Devices for Complex Work? The Introduction of Everyday Technologies and their Impact on Employment Relations in Social Care Settings in the U.K.

Speaker

27/6/2024

Benchmarking Pay and Conditions in the Scottish Voluntary Sector 2024

Participant

3/5/2024

Cost Of Living – Making the most of research

Speaker

14/6/2023

Benchmarking Pay and Conditions in the Scottish Voluntary Sector 2023

Participant

10/5/2023

International Labour Process Conference 2023

Chair

12/4/2023

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Projects

Effective Voice in Scottish Social Care Workplaces – A Mixed Methods Study

Scholarios, Dora (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Ian (Co-investigator) Johnstone, Stewart (Co-investigator) McCarthy, Tony (Research Co-investigator) Nikolova, Marina (Researcher)

19-Jan-2024 - 18-Jan-2025

Coalition of Care and Support Providers Scotland - benchmarking study of pay and conditions continued

Cunningham, Ian (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024

Benchmarking

Cunningham, Ian (Principal Investigator)

16-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023

Long-term Care Research Project for Public Services International (PSI) Federation

Cunningham, Ian (Principal Investigator)

18-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2023

Amplifying Employee Voice and Hearing the Unheard: A Multidisciplinary Study of Contemporary Working Lives in Deindustrialised Communities

Johnstone, Stewart (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Ian (Co-investigator) Hadjisolomou, Tasos (Co-investigator) McCarthy, Tony (Co-investigator) McIntyre, Stuart (Co-investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator) Taylor, Philip (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026

Re-examining the role of line manager in managing sickness absence during and post-pandemic and the issue of legitimacy of sickness: Informing policy and practice for a fairer workplace

Hadjisolomou, Tasos (Principal Investigator) Cunningham, Ian (Co-investigator) Remnant, Jennifer (Co-investigator)

20-Jan-2022 - 19-Jan-2024

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