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| European Commision DG XIII |
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Assessement of coverage of socio-economic issues and research in Information Society Technologies (IST) programme of Fifth Framework Programme |
| European Commission DG XIII |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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Global review of evidence on teleworking |
| UNU/INTECH (with funding from UNDP and IDRC) |
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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 |
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Evaluation of proposals under the ADAPT initiative |
| European Commission DGV Equal Opportunities Unit |
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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.
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| Local Government Management Board |
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Review of evidence on teleworking in local government in the UK, including the development of local telematic strategies |
| NUTEK (Swedish Government) |
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Organisation of two conferences on teleworking and gender and editing a book on the subject |
| Swedish Ministry of Labour |
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Expert advice to Commission on Women's Unemployment and Commission on Telework |
| Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration
Service (ACAS)
(with IES) |
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Assessment of homeworking in ACAS, including postal survery, key informant interviews, in-depth interviews and focus groups and production of policy recommendations |
| Symantec |
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Review of evidence on mobile teleworking in Europe |
| Rural Development Commission (with IES) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Flexible Labour Markets and Benefit Systems. Director of research project with partners in Germany, Greece and Sweden |
| National Group on Homeworking (NGH) |
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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) |
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Production of report on teleworking in the follow- up to the Jacques Delors White Paper on Employment, Growth and Competitieveness |
| International Labour Organisation |
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Production of report on ten case-studies of Homeworkers' Organisations in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas |
| International Labour Organisation |
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Guidelines for good practice in the employment of homeworkers and teleworkers |
| European Commission, DG XIII |
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Europe-wide survey of contractual arrangements for the employment of teleworkers, with case studies in each EU country |
| Employment Department |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Feasibility study for pooling of resources of nine London TECs to carry out a single London-wide annual labour market survey |
| South Glamorgan Council |
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Update of report on local impact of the Single European Market |
| Sheffield City Council |
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Update of report on local impact of the Single European Market |
| West London TEC |
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Overview of trends in the West London economy with special reference to skill enterprise policies and projections to 1996 |
| Leicester City Council |
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Regional and sectoral impact of the Single European Market |
| Mercury Communications |
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Impact of changing work organisation patterns on telecommunications usage with particular focus on teleworking (overview, case studies and presentations) |
| European Social Fund (with Empirica) |
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EEC-wide comparative survey of data and literature on women as carers |
| European Foundation for the Improvement
Living and Working
Conditions (with Empirica) |
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Public attitudes to biotechnology.
Literature review and organisation of national seminar and focus groups
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| Industrial Restructuring Network Europe (IRENE |
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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 |
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Regional and sectoral impact of the Single European Market |
| South Glamorgan County Council |
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Regional and sectoral impact of the Single European Market |
| Sheffield City Council |
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Regional and sectoral impact of the Single European Market |
| London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham |
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Regional and sectoral impact of the Single European Market |
| International Labour Organisation |
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Case studies of telework in the
UK
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| South China Morning Post (with the UK Hong Kong Research Group) |
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Impact of mass immigration from Hong Kong on the UK economy |
| London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham |
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Revision of Equal Opportunities code of practice; production of guidelines for managers and information packs for staff |
| EC DG XIII ESPRIT Programme (with Empirica). |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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Production of guidelines for negotiators on the avoidance of sex discrimination in collective bargaining |
| Inner London Education Authority, Equal Opportunities Unit |
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Production of information pack for manual workers on job search |
| Channel 4 television |
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Women's Rights at Work - Production of booklet to accompany series of television programmes on women's employment |
| London Borough of Brent |
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Women's employment in Brent - research and report |
| EC DG XIII - ESPRIT Programme and |
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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) |
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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). |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Survey of resources for working women in London and writing employment section of 'London Women's Handbook' |
| GLC Industry and Employment Branch. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Comparison of the results of a 1983 survey of 'new' homeworkers with a sample of homeworkers in traditional occupations. |
| GLC Industry and Employment Branch. |
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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 |
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Home-based work using new information
technology and its implications for equalityof opportunity between men
and women.
The first UK review of the literature on teleworking (this was when the word was coined!) and survey of teleworkers. |
| Equal Opportunities Commission (with TUCRIC) |
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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) |
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A variety of research projects on economic, social and technological issues for local trade union, women's and community groups. |
note: this list is not a complete record of work carried out during this period. It excludes teaching, small consultancy and advisory projects, lecturing and writing as well as non-commissioned research and some smaller research projects.
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