Professor Chris Warhurst FRSA FAcSS is Director of the Institute for Employment Research (IER) at the University of Warwick in the UK. IER is one of Europe’s leading institutes for applied labour market research. He is an internationally recognised expert on employment and motivated by wanting to improve working lives through better scientific and policymaker understanding of work.
He is a Fellow of both the Academy of Social Sciences and Royal Society of the Arts and an Associate Research Fellow of SKOPE at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the Sydney University Business School, Founding Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research at Strathclyde University and a Trustee of the Tavistock Institute in London. He was Chair of the Management Committee for Human Relations and co-editor of Work, Employment and Society.
He has secured more than 100 research awards from research councils, government and foundations/charities. His new NIHR-funded project aims to create healthy jobs. He has published 18 books including the Oxford Handbook of Job Quality (Oxford University Press) and Are bad jobs inevitable? (Palgrave).
He has been an expert advisor to the UK, Australian and Scottish Governments and the OECD. He was the academic advisor to the RSA/Carnegie Measuring Job Quality Working Group tasked with responding to the UK Government’s Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices recommendations on job quality. He was also Co-Chair of the ESRC-funded Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (ReWAGE) tasked with helping the UK Government build back better jobs post covid. He is currently a steering group member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Modernising Employment and a member of the Workplace Health Intelligence Advisory Group.
