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Jackie O'Reilly

Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly

Prof of Comparative Emp Relations & HRM

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Brighton Business School
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4AT

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642594

Email: J.O'Reilly@brighton.ac.uk

Jackie O'Reilly joined Brighton Business School in October 2008, previously she taught and researched at Sussex University; the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin (WZB) (Social Science Research Centre); Royal Holloway School of Management, London University; Singapore School of Management; Manchester School of Management, (UMIST); and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, in Paris. She completed her PhD in Industrial Sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1992 and her first degree in Politics at the University of Hull in 1986.

Jackie was a Jean Monnet Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 2000 and was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi (CNRS) Paris in 2001.She is a visiting fellow at the WZB and visiting Professorial Fellow at the Sussex European Institute at Sussex University.

She is currently co-editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations and sits on the international advisory board for the Socio-Economic Review and for the Irish Economic and Social Review. She served on the 2005 jury of Sociologie du Travail to select the prize winning paper written by a young French researcher. She has been European co-editor for the journal Gender, Work and Organization and served on the international editorial board of Work, Employment and Society (2000-2006). The Business School successfully tendered to hold the next WES conference in Brighton in September 2010.

Jackie's research interests are in international comparisons of the gendered dimensions of employment, working time, welfare and care systems. Intellectually her work as a sociologist has borrowed from traditions in politics, law, political theory and labour economics. Jackie is often asked to evaluate research for the Belgium, Italian, Swiss and Irish national research councils; the ESRC and a number of other funding bodies and international journals.

Jackie is currently involved in a FP6 EU project 'Workcare' examining how families in Europe avail, or not, of policies to encourage a better work-life balance. Intellectually this seeks to work with the capabilities approach of Sen and Nussbaum in an empirical comparison of developments in the UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Hungary and Poland. She is also involved in an international comparative network on 'Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment: Developing Common Understandings across Space, Scale and Social Location' with Prof Leah Vosko, Toronto University, and recently completed a research project for the Anglo-German Foundation on the development of service sector employment in Britain and Germany using household panel data.

Jackie was awarded a three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to conduct research for her forthcoming book 'Challenging the Gender Contract: Changing Work and Welfare in Europe' OUP (2012).

Jackie is Director of CROME.

Research Publications

Books

  1. O'Reilly, J. (2003) (ed.) Regulating Working Time Transitions in Europe (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
  2. Mosley, H., O'Reilly, J. and Schömann, K. (2002) (eds.) Labour Markets, Gender and Institutions: Essays in honour of Günther Schmid (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
  3. O'Reilly, J. Cebrián, I. and Lallement, M. (2000) (eds.) Working Time Changes: Social integration through transitional labour markets (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar)
  4. O'Reilly, J. and Fagan, C. (1998) (eds.) Part-time Prospects: International comparisons of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim (London and New York: Routledge)
  5. Schmid, G. O'Reilly, J. and. Schömann, K. (1996) (eds.) International Handbook on Labour Market Policy and Evaluation (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar)
  6. O'Reilly, J. (1995) Human Resource Management: Study Guide for the University of London External Programme (BSc Economics & BSc Management) in collaboration with Dr. R. Pecci
  7. O'Reilly, J. (1994) Banking on Flexibility: Comparing flexible employment practices in retail banking in Britain and France (Aldershot: Avebury)

Forthcoming book publications

  • O'Reilly, J. (forthcoming) Challenging the Gender Contract: reforming work and welfare in Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Journal articles

  1. O'Reilly, J., Eichhorst, W. Gabos, A., Hadjivassiliou, K., Kurakova, D., Lain, L., Lesckhe, J., McGuinness, S., Nazio, T., Ortlieb, R., Russell, H. and Villa, P. (2014) 'Youth Unemployment: the state of the debate' Socio-Economic Review (under review)
  2. David Lain, Kari Hadjivassiliou, Antonio Corral Alza, Iñigo Isusi, Jacqueline O'Reilly, Tom Higgins, Vicky Richards, Sue Will (2013) 'Internships & Governance: European Challenges and the case of Spain' International Journal of Human Resource Management (under review)
  3. O'Reilly, J., Roche J. and Nazio, T. (2013) 'Compromising Conventions: Attitudes to Families and Maternal Employment in Denmark, Poland, Spain and the UK' Work, Employment and Society (forthcoming)
  4. O'Reilly, J., Lain, D., Sheehan, M., Smale, B. and Stuart, M. (2011) 'Managing Uncertainty: The crisis, its consequences and the global workforce' Introductory Forward to Special Conference Issue Work, Employment and Society 25(4): 581-595. http://wes.sagepub.com.ezproxy.brighton.ac.uk/content/current
  5. Kattenbach. R. and O'Reilly, J. (2011) 'Introduction: New Perspectives on the Quality of Working Life' Special Issue Management Revue, Volume 22(2): 107-113 http://www.management-revue.org/current22.2.php
  6. O'Reilly, J. (2008) Can a Basic Income lead to a more gender equal society? Basic Income Studies: International Journal of Basic Income Research
  7. O'Reilly, J. (2006) 'Framing Comparisons: Gendering perspectives on cross-national comparisons of welfare and work' Work, Employment and Society 20(4): 731-750.
  8. Fagan, C., Halpin, B. and O'Reilly, J. (2005) 'Service Sector Employment in Germany and the UK' Journal of Applied Social Science Studies/ Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozial wissenschaften, Schmollers Jahrbuch vol 125(1): 97-108
  9. O'Reilly, J., Fagan, C. and Halpin, B. (2004) 'Comparing Labour Market Dynamics and Service Sector Employment Growth in Germany and the UK Using Household Panel Data' in Marie-Thérèse Letablier (ed.) Learning from Employment and Welfare Policies in Europe, Cross National Research Papers 7 (3) May, pp 30-9, Seminar 3.
  10. Gottfried, H. and O'Reilly, J. (2002) 'Re-regulating breadwinner models in socially conservative welfare systems: Comparing Germany and Japan' (pdf file) Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society Spring, pp. 29-59.
  11. O'Reilly, J. and Bothfeld, S. (2002) 'What happens after working part-time? Integration, maintenance or exclusionary transitions in Britain and Western Germany' (pdf file), Cambridge Journal of Economics (26) pp.409-439.
  12. O'Reilly, J. and Spee, C. (1998) 'The Future Regulation of Work and Welfare: Time for a Revised Social and Gender Contract?' European Journal of Industrial Relations, 4(3): 259-81.
  13. O'Reilly, J. (1996) 'Theoretical considerations in cross-national employment research' Sociological Research Online, 1(1) March
  14. Quack, S., O'Reilly, J. and Hilderbrandt, S. (1995) "Structuring Change: Recruitment and Training in Retail Banking in Germany, Britain and France" International Journal of Human Resource Management 6(4): 759-794.
  15. O'Reilly, J. (1994) "What Flexibility do Women offer? Comparing the use of, and attitudes to, part-time work in Britain and France in Retail Banking" Gender, Work and Organisation 1(3):138-149.
  16. O'Reilly, J. (1992) "Comparaison des stratégies d'emploi flexible dans le secteur bancaire en Grande-bretagne et en France." Sociologie du Travail, (3): 293 313.
  17. O'Reilly, J. (1992) "Where do you draw the line? Functional Flexibility, Training and Skill". Work, Employment and Society, 6(3): 369-396.
  18. O'Reilly, J. (1992) "Banking on Flexibility: A comparison of flexible employment strategies in the French and British Retail Banking Sector" The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 3 (1): 35-57.
  19. O'Reilly, J. (1992) "Subcontracting in Banking: Some evidence from Britain and France" New Technology, Work and Employment 7(2):107 115

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