Academic profile
Chris Warhurst is an internationally recognised expert on job quality, skills and aesthetic labour. He is motivated by wanting to see better scientific and policymaker understanding of work and employment.
He is Co-Chair of the ERSC-funded Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (ReWAGE), a Fellow of the 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 (SCER) 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 uses mixed methods in his research, which ranges over small-scale qualitative case studies to national surveys. He has secured more than 90 research awards from national research councils, government, employers, trade unions and charities etc.. He has published 17 books including Aesthetic Labour (Sage), The Skills That Matter (Palgrave), Are bad jobs inevitable? (Palgrave), Job Quality in Australia (Federation Press) and the Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training (Oxford University Press). He has published over 50 academic journal articles, over 70 book chapters and nearly 70 reports for government and practitioners.
He has been an expert advisor to the UK, Australian and Scottish Governments as well as the OECD, Oxfam Scotland and the Scottish Living Wage Campaign. He sat on the Measuring Job Quality Working Group co-chaired by the Carnegie Trust UK and the Royal Society of the Arts that was tasked with responding to the UK Government’s Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices recommendation to develop a measure of job quality for the UK. He is currently a member of the Education and Labour Market Research Group of the Scottish Qualifications Authority and the UK Government's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation.
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Selected publications
- Warhurst, C. and Dhondt, S. (2023). Making Industry 5.0 Happen: Concept, Policy and Practice. Policy Brief #8.
- Bobillier Chaumon, M.-E., Delgoulet, C., Greenan, N., Lemonie, Y. & Warhurst, C.(2022). Cross-disciplinary perspectives on the duality of digital
technologies. Industrial Relations, 77(3). https://doi.org/10.7202/1094207ar
- Dickinson, P., Cardenas-Rubio, J., and Warhurst, C. (2022). Green Jobs and the Green Economy in York. IER, Coventry.
- Cardenas Rubio, J., Warhurst, C and Anderson, P. (2022). Green Jobs in Scotland: An inclusive approach to definition, measurement and analysis. Skills Development Scotland.
- Balogh, R., S. Gadeyne, J. Jonsson, S. Sarkar, K. Van Aerden, C. Warhurst and C. Vanroelen (2022). Employment trajectories and mental health-related disability in Belgium. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health.
- Warhurst, C., Mathieu, C. and Dwyer, R. (2022). The Oxford Handbook of Job Quality. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198749790.
- Guest, D., A. Knox and C. Warhurst (2022). Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives. Volume 75, Issue 8 of Human Relations. London: Sage.
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Warhurst, C. and Knox, A. (2022). Manifesto for a new Quality of Working Life. Human Relations. 75:2, pp 304-321.
- Totterdill, P., Pot, F., Dhondt, S. and Warhurst, C. (2022f) ‘Workplace Innovation: Europe's Competitive Edge: A Manifesto for Enhanced Performance and Working lives’, European Journal of Workplace Innovation.
- Warhurst, C., Mathieu, C., and Wright, S. (2021). Vorsprung durch Technik: the future of work, digital technology and the politics of the platform economy. In: P.A. Creticos, L. Bennett, L. Owen, C. Spirou and M. Morphis-Reibeck (eds) The Many Futures of Work: Chicago: Temple University Press, pp 179-195.
- Hunt, W., Sudipa, S. and Warhurst, C. (2021). Measuring the impact of AI on jobs at the organization level: Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders. Research Policy, Volume 51, Issue 2, March 2022, 104425, Elsevier (online publication).
- Warhurst, C. and Knox, A. (2020). Manifesto for a new Quality of Working Life. Human Relations (online first)
- Warhurst,C. and D. Nickson (2020). Aesthetic Labour. London Sage. ISBN: 9781847870858
- Warhurst, C. and S. Wright (2020) ‘What makes a good job for low-waged workers?’ in T. Dundon and A. Wilkinson (eds) Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Warhurst, C, Muñoz de Bustillo, L.R., Antón Pérez, J-I., Grande Martín, R., Pinto, H.F., Wright, S. (2019). Upward convergence in working conditions, Eurofound, ISBN: 978-92-897-1997-1.
- Knox, A. and Warhurst, C. (2018) 'Occupations, the missing link?: A new theoretical and methodological approach to product markets, skill and pay’, Work, Employment and Society, vol.32, no.1, pp.150-186.
- Findlay, P., Warhurst, C., Keep, E. and Lloyd, C. (2017) ‘Opportunity Knocks?: The Possibilities and Levers for Improving Job Quality’, Work and Occupations, vol. 44, no.1, pp.3-22.
- Warhurst, C., Wright, S. and Lyonette, C. (2017) Understanding and measuring job quality, CIPD Research Services Job Quality Study, Report 1. London: CIPD.
- Warhurst, C. Mayhew, K., Finegold, D. and Buchanan, D. (2017) (eds) Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Knox, A. and Warhurst, C. (eds) (2015) Job quality in Australia: Perspectives, Problems and Proposals, Annandale, NSW: Federation Press.
- James, S., Warhurst, C., Tholen, G. and Commander, J. (2013) What We Know and What We Need to Know About Graduate Skills’, Work, Employment and Society, 27:6, 952-963.
- Warhurst, C., Carré, F., Findlay, P. and Tilly, C. (eds) (2012) Are bad jobs inevitable? Trends, determinants and responses to job quality in the twenty-first century, London: Palgrave.
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