Professor Geraldine Healy
Professor of Employment Relations
Roles: Research DirectorDirector of the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7467
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, Room 4.25d
Email:g.m.healy@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Geraldine Healy's research interests lie in the interconnecting fields of employment relations, inequalities and career. She has published widely on gender and ethnicity and trade unions, discrimination and disadvantage, and individualism and collectivism. She is on the editorial board of three journals, Work, Employment and Society, Industrial Relations Journal and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. She is co-editor of The Future of Worker Representation (Palgrave 2004) and joint author of Ethnicity and Gender at Work (Palgrave 2008).and co-editor of Equalities, inequalites and diversity( Palgrave ). With Franklin Oikelome, Geraldine is also the author of Diversity, ethnicity, migration and work: international perspectives (2011) Palgrave Macmillan.
Geraldine is currently working with Gill Kirton on a Leverhulme funded International Network on Women and Trade Union Leadership with Cornell and Rutgers universities. As part of their international work, Geraldine and Gill have undertaken exploratory studies on women in Barbadian trade unions. Geraldine has previously undertaken a number of projects on equalities and disadvantage including the ESRC funded Future of Work project on 'Handling the Double Disadvantage - the experience of black and minority women in trade unions' and the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) project on 'Workplace Cultures: what does and does not work'. In addition, she has led projects for the ESF, 'Challenging occupational segregation among young BME workers? and Ethnicity, Career and Work in the Health Services', and for the Department of Constitutional Affairs (now the Ministry of Justice) on ‘Assessment Centres for Judicial Appointments and Diversity'.
Publications:
Journal Articles:
Kirton, G. and G. Healy (forthcoming, 2012) ‘Women’s union leadership in Barbados: exploring the local within the global.’ Journal of Leadership & Organizational Development
Seierstad, C, and G. Healy (forthcoming) "Women's equality in the Scandinavian academy - a distant dream?" Work Employment and Society.
Healy, G., H, Bradley. and Forson, C., "Intersectional Sensibilities in Analysing Inequality Regimes in Public Sector Organizations." Gender, Work & Organization 18, no. 5 (2011): 467-87.
Healy, G., G, Kirton., G, Ozbilgin. and F, Oikelome., (2010) The Politics of Assessment Centres: competing rationalities in the diversity project of the judiciary, Human Relations,63(4)
Kirton, G. and G. Healy., (2009) Using competency-based assessment centres to select judges - Implications for equality and diversity.Human Resource Management Journal, 19(3): 302-318
Oikelome, F. and G. Healy., (2007) Professional Career Structures and Employment Conditions: the case of overseas and UK Qualified Doctors Human Resource Management Journal, 17: 134-154
Healy, G. and F. Oikelome., (2007) A global link between national diversity policies? The case of the migration of Nigerian physicians to the UK and USA The International Journal of Human Resource Management 18: 1917 – 1933
Healy, G. and F. Oikelome., (2007) Equality and diversity actors: a challenge to traditional industrial relations?, Equal Opportunities International, 26, 44 -65
Healy, G., H. Aliefendioglu. and M. Ozbilgin., (2005) Academic Employment and Gender: A Turkish Challenge to Vertical Sex Segregation? European Journal of Industrial Relations, 11(2):247-264, ISSN: 0959-6801
Healy, G., A. Rainnie. and J. Telford., (2004) Policy and Practice in General Print: the workplace reality of national bargaining
Employee Relations,Vol 26, No. 5
Healy, G., L.L. Hansen. and S. Ledwith., (2006) Still uncovering gender in industrial relations, Industrial Relations Journal37: 290-8
Healy, G., H. Bradley. and N. Mukherjee., (2004) Individualism and Collectivism Revisited - A Study of Black Minority Ethnic Women, Industrial Relations Journal, 35(5): 451-466, ISSN: 0019-8692
Kirton, G. and G. Healy., (2004) Shaping Union and Gender Identities: A Case Study of Women-Only Trade Union Courses, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 42(2): 303-323, ISSN: 0007-1080
Healy, G. and S. Grey., (2004) Women and IT Contracting Work - A Testing Process, New Technology, Work and Employment, 19(1): 30-42, ISSN: 0268-1072
Bradley, H., G. Healy, and N. Mukherjee., (2004) Union influence on career development - bringing in gender and ethnicity
Career Development International, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp 74-88
Kirton, G. and G. Healy., (2004) Shaping Union and Gender Identities: a case study of women-only trade union courses'.
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 42:2, 303-324
Calveley, M. and G. Healy., (2003) Political Activism and Workplace Industrial Relations in a UK 'Failing' School,
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 41(1): 97-113, ISSN: 0007-1080
Kirton, G and G. Healy., (2000) Women, Power, and Trade Union Government British Journal of Industrial Relations, 38:3, 343-360
Kirton, G and G. Healy., (1999) Transforming Union Women: the Role of Women trade Union Officials in Union Renewal
Industrial Relations Journal, 30:1, 31-45
Books & Chapters:
Healy, G. and F. Oikelome., 2011. Diversity, ethnicity, migration and work: international perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Healy, G. and Bradley H., (2010) What Shapes the Careers of Young Black and Minority Ethnic People? in Healy, G., Kirton, G, and Noon, M (2010) Equality, Inequalities and Diversity - Contemporary Challenges and Strategies. pg 270-288 Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Healy, G., G. Kirton, and M. Noon., (eds) (2010) Equality, Inequalities and Diversity - Basingstoke, Palgrave.
Healy, G., G. Kirton, and M. Noon., (2010) ‘Inequalities, intersectionality and equality and diversity initiatives: the conundrums and challenges of researching equality, inequality and diversity’ in Healy, G., G. Kirton and M. Noon., (eds) Equality, Inequalities and Diversity, Basingstoke, Palgrave, (1-17)
Healy, G. and H. Bradley (2010) What Shapes the Careers of Young Black and Minority Ethnic People? In Healy, G., G. Kirton and M. Noon (eds) Equality, Inequalities and Diversity, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 270-288
Healy, G., (2009) in Ozbilgin M. (ed) Theory and Scholarship in Equality and Diversity Research, in Reflections on researching intersectionality and inequality regimes, Edward Elgar, 88-101.
Bradley, H. and G. Healy., (2008) Ethnicity and Gender at Work: inequalities, careers and employment relations, in Inequalities, careers and employment relations, London, Palgrave
Bradley, H., G. Healy. and N. Mukherjee., (2005). Multiple Burdens – the experience of black women trade unionists in The Future of Work Life Balance, edited by D. Houston, London: Palgrave, 211-230
Healy, G., W. Brown., P. Heery. and P, Taylor (eds.), (2004) The Future of Worker Representation London: Palgrave
Bradley, G., G. Healy. and N. Mukherjee., Including Minority Ethnic Women – Trade Union Strategies in the UK (2004) in H. Knudson and J. Lind (eds) ‘Labour and Employment Regulation in Europe’ Brussels: P.I.E. Lang, pp 47-69
Healy, G., H. Bradley. and N. Mukherjee., 103-126, (2004) Inspiring Union Women – Black and minority ethnic women in trade unions in ‘The Future of Worker Representation’, edited by G. Healy, E. Heery, P.Taylor, W. Brown, Palgrave
Heery, E., G. Healy., and P. Taylor, (2004), Representation at Work: Themes and Issues, 1-36, in ‘The Future of Worker Representation’, edited by G. Healy, E. Heery, P.Taylor, W. Brown, Palgrave
Healy, G. and G Kirton., (2002) Professional and Highly Qualified Women in Two Contrasting Trade Unions in Colgan, F. and S. Ledwith, Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives, Routledge: London
Kirton, G. and G. Healy., (2002) Professional and Highly Qualified Women in Two Contrasting Unions Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives, 186-204, Colgan, F & Ledwith, S (eds), London Routledge
Other Publications:
Healy, G., H. Bradley. and C. Williams., (2006) Making Career Choices: the experiences of young black and minority ethnic people entering the labour market London: Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary, University of London
Healy, G., G. Kirton., M. Ozbilgin., M. Calveley., C. Forson., F. Oikelome. and A. Tatli., (2006) Assessment Centres for Judicial Appointments and Diversity London: Department of Constitutional Affairs
Healy, G. and F. Oikelome., (2006) Ethnicity, Career and Work in the Health Services, London: Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary, University of London
Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:
2008-10 Leverhulme Trust International Networks ‘Women and Trade Union Leadership Development in Comparative Context’ £111,569 (Co-I with G. Kirton as P-I).
2007-9 BBC ‘Workplace Cultures’ £43, 500 (P-I)
2006-7 Equal Opportunities Commission ‘Workplace Cultures and Ethnic Minority Women’ £61.000. (Co-I)
2005-6 Department for Constitutional Affairs ‘The Impact of Assessment Centres on Judicial Appointments and Diversity’ £49,100. (P-I)
2004-6 European Social Fund ‘Challenging Occupational Segregation – a study of young black workers in high technology and traditional industries’ £151K. (P-I)
2004-6 European Social Fund ‘Challenging Discrimination – a study of highly qualified (doctors) and low skilled workers in the Health Services’ £151K. (P-I)
Undergraduate teaching:
Courses delivered:
BUS320: Employment Relations
Postgraduate teaching:
Courses delivered:
BUSM016: Comparative Employment Relations
PhD Supervision
Miss Cathrine Seierstad - 1st Supervisor
Equality, equality strategies and occupational sex segregation – the Norwegian paradox and paths
Ms Yao Wang - 2nd Supervisor
Numerical flexibility in Chinese Higher Education sector and its implications for human resource management