This document summarizes the schedule and program for a two-day seminar on the regulation of work and employment. Day one will explore the relationship between regulation and individual experiences of work, focusing on themes like intersectionality, migrant work, and professions. There will be a panel discussion on developing an interdisciplinary research agenda. Day two will discuss professions, body work, and social media, and include a panel on next steps. The goal is to advance understanding of how regulation shapes dynamics related to individual experiences of work from multiple disciplinary perspectives.

1. ESRC Seminar Series
The Regulation of Work and Employment:
Towards a Multi-Disciplinary, Multilevel Framework
Seminar 4: Regulation and the individual
experience of work
12-13 February 2015
Newcastle University Business School, Partners’ Room, 8th
Floor

2. Housekeeping
• We are not expecting a fire alarm
• If the alarm sounds please make your way
down the stairs to the ground floor and
assemble at the footpath to the side of the
building
• Toilets are located on this floor – past the lifts
and on the right

3. Social Media
@NUBIZHRMWE
#esrcregulation

4. Introduction
The Seminar Series
– Regulation of work and employment
– Multi-disciplinary and multi-level approach
What’s happened so far?
Seminar 1: Competing approaches to regulation
of work and employment
Seminar 2: Workplace regulation, employment
and the State
Seminar 3: International regulation

5. Seminar 4 – Regulation and the
Individual Experience of Work
• Explore the relationship between the regulation of work
and employment and individual experiences of work.
• Problematize the interactions between individuals and
regulation, focusing on how these interactions shape
dynamics related to experiences of work.
• Themes
– Regulation and the individual
– Regulation and migrant work
– Intersectional approaches to regulation
– Professions and regulation
– Body work, media and regulation
– Regulation of careers
– Self-regulation at work

6. Day one programme
08:45-09:30 Coffee and registration
09:30-10:00 Introduction and Welcome
10:00-12:00 Regulation and the Individual (Chair: Jenny Rodriguez)
Carol Woodhams (University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter) – ‘Intersectionality and policy
responses to discrimination’
Mark Smith & Maria-Laura Toraldo (Grenoble Ecole De Management) - “Connecting regulations : the interplay of
statutory, identity and emotional regulation”
12.00-12:30 Coffee/Tea break
12.30-13.30 Regulation and Migrant Work (Chair: Paul Stewart)
Olena Fedyuk (Dept. of HRM, University of Strathclyde) – ‘Costs and benefits of labour migration on migrants’
professional trajectories and their households’ well-being: comparative case study of Ukrainian labour migration to
Italy and Ireland’
Sophie Gamwell (Middlesex University) & Davide Calenda (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European
University Institute) - ‘Regulation of international recruitment: a role for procurement’
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Regulation and the Individual Experience of Work: Developing an interdisciplinary agenda (Chair: Tracy Scurry)
Olena Fedyuk (Dept. of HRM, University of Strathclyde)
Sophie Gamwell (Middlesex University)
Mark Smith (Grenoble Ecole De Management)
Carol Woodhams (University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter)
15.30-16.00 Summary and close
19.00 Dinner at Jamie’ s Italian http://www.jamieoliver.com/italian/restaurants/newcastle
Meet at the Business School reception to leave for 18:30 or at the restaurant for 19:00.
The restaurant is located next to the Monument in the centre of town. Address: Unit 3, Monument Mall, Newcastle
upon Tyne, NE1 7AL

7. Dinner this evening
• Dinner at Jamie’s Italian
• There is no charge for the meal
• Meet at the Business School reception to
leave for 18:30 or at the restaurant for 19:00
• Please could you select your menu/drink
choices on the forms at the back of the room
by 13:30 today

8. Panel Discussion
Regulation and the Individual Experience of Work:
Developing an interdisciplinary agenda
• What are the main challenges to developing an interdisciplinary agenda (for
research, policy and practice) in relation to regulation and the individual
experience of work?
• How does your work contribute to this agenda?
• What would an interdisciplinary agenda look like?
Panel members
• Olena Fedyuk (Dept. of HRM, University of Strathclyde)
• Sophie Gamwell (Middlesex University)
• Mark Smith (Grenoble Ecole De Management)
• Carol Woodhams (University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter)

9. Day two programme
09:00-09:30 Coffee and registration
09.30-10.00 Regulation and the Individual Experience of Work: Key issues and debates in the field (Report by Andrew
Kozhevnikov and Eve Ewington, Newcastle University Business School)
10.00-11.30 Professions and Regulation (Chair: Daniel Muzio)
Stefanie Gustafsson, Svenja Tams & Katharina Chudzikowski (School of Management, University of Bath) –
‘Constructing careers through everyday practice: An investigation of the career tactics of senior managers in
Professional Service Firms’
Frederick H Pitts (Department of Social and Policy Sciences ,University of Bath) – ‘Value relation as regulation: a
case study of design and advertising in the creative industries’
Ruth Slater (Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire) – ‘The role of professional standards in
the creation and regulation of identities - the case of the personnel/human resources practitioner and the
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)’
11.30-12.00 Coffee/Tea break
12.00-13.30 Body Work, Media and Regulation (Chair: Carlos Osorio)
Ann Stewart (School of Law, Warwick University) – ‘Regulation of body work in the residential care sector’
Cath Sullivan (School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire) - ‘The Discursive Construction of ‘Work-life
Balance’ in UK Women’s Magazines’
Hazel Beadle (Institute of Education, University of Chichester) – ‘Who watches the Twitterers? Self-regulation in
the use of social media’
13.30-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.30 Regulation and the Individual Experience of Work: Next steps and future directions (Chair: Tracy Scurry)
Sharon Mavin (Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University)
Ann Stewart (School of Law, Warwick University)
Jenny Rodriguez (Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University)
15.30-15.45 Closing - coffee

10. Panel Discussion
Regulation and the Individual Experience of Work:
Next steps and future directions
• What do you see as the next steps to advance discussions about regulation and
the individual experience of work?
• How can we drive this forward in a collaborative manner?
Panel members
• Sharon Mavin (Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University)
• Ann Stewart (School of Law, Warwick University)
• Jenny Rodriguez (Newcastle University Business School)