Dr David Lain
Research Fellow
contact:
Brighton Business School
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4AT
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 641922
Email: D.Lain@brighton.ac.uk
David joined Brighton Business School in September 2008. He has a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Sussex, and previously worked as a Researcher at the Institute for Employment Studies.
David's recent research has focused on employment at the beginning and end of the working life-course. He has a particular interest in work beyond 'typical' retirement age, stemming from his doctoral research on employment past age 65 in the UK and USA. He has published articles on this topic in Work, Employment and Society and Journal of Social Policy. David currently has a three year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to further explore the changing nature of work and retirement in the UK and US.
He was the Principal Investigator for the Economic and Social Research Council 'Rethinking Retirement' seminar series, working with Professors Sarah Vickerstaff and Wendy Loretto (www.rethinkingretirement.org). He is co-editor of two forthcoming journal special issues collecting papers from the series, in Employee Relations and Social Policy and Society.
David's commentary on older workers and retirement issues has been published by The Guardian newspaper, Personnel Today, Mature Times, HRZone, and the Institute of Leadership and Management. He also recently contributed to a debate on increases in State Pension Age on the Voice of Russia Radio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYdg8nSqLE.
At the other end of the age spectrum, David co-ordinated a Santander-funded research project on young people, employment and internships in Spain and the UK. This project included colleagues from Brighton Business School, the Institute for Employment Studies, and IKEI Research and Consultancy in Spain. He also worked with Professor Jacqueline O'Reilly on the EU Workcare Synergies project (http://workcaresynergies.eu/), which brought together research on labour market transitions across the life-course.
David supervises two PhD students: Christine Lewis on the abolition of the Educational Maintenance Allowance, and Karen Hanley on the employment choices of people over 65 in Denmark and the UK. David welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students interested in conducting research on issues related to age and employment.
David teaches Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management. He is a dissertation supervisor for the MSc in Personnel and Development.
David is a member of CROME.
Research Publications
LAIN, DAVID, Vickerstaff, Sarah and Loretto, Wendy (2012) Reforming state pension provision in ‘Liberal’ Anglo-Saxon countries: re-commodification, cost-containment or recalibration? Social Policy And Society . ISSN 1474-7464
LAIN, DAVID (2012) Working past 65 in the UK and USA: segregation into ‘Lopaq’ occupations? Work Employment And Society, 26 (1). pp. 78-94. ISSN 0950-0170
O'REILLY, JACQUELINE, SHEEHAN, MAURA, SMALE, ROBERT and LAIN, DAVID (2011) Managing uncertainty: the crisis, its consequences and the global workforce Work Employment And Society, 25 (4). pp. 581-595. ISSN 0950-0170
Lain, David (2011) Health and Employment past age 65 in England and the United States In: Vickerstaff, S., Phillipson, C. and Wilkie, R., eds. Work, Health and Well-Being: The Challenges of Managing Health at Work. Policy Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781847428080
Lain, David (2011) Helping the poorest help themselves? Encouraging employment past 65 in England and the USA Journal of Social Policy, 40 (3). pp. 493-512. ISSN 1469-7823
Lain, David (2010) Helping the poorest help themselves? Abolishing mandatory retirement in the UK and USA In: Older Workers in a Sustainable Society-Great Needs and Great Potentials , 9-11 June 2010, Oslo, Norway.
O'Reilly, Jacqueline and Lain, David (2010) Labour Market Transitions in Comparative Perspective: Policy briefing from EU research findings IHS WORKCARE SYNERGIES.
Lain, David (2009) Measuring ill-health and older workers: A comparison of the US and the UK In: BSG Annual Conference 2009, 2-4 September, 2009, Bristol, UK.
Lain, David (2009) Secondary workers? Employers' use of workers over 65 in the UK and USA: A preliminary analysis In: British Academy of Management Conference 2009, 15-17 Sep 2009, Brighton, UK.
Lain, David (2009) Welfare for Older People in the UK and USA: Shifting policy logics? In: Society for the advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting: Capitalism in Crisis: What next?, 16-18 July 2009, Paris, France.
Lain, David and Aston, Jane (2005) Literature Review of Evidence on e-Learning in the Workplace Institute of Employment Studies.
