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Professor Jean Jenkins

Professor Jean Jenkins

Head of Management, Employment and Organisation Section
Professor of Employment Relations

Email
jenkinsj1@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)29 2087 5338
Campuses
D28, Aberconway Building, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Overview

My teaching, research and writing is concerned with employment relations in the global economy. I focus mainly on labour rights, collective representation and conditions of work and working time in low paid employment, with a specialism in the international garment sector. A commitment to social justice in work and employment informs my teaching and research.

Biography

Jean Jenkins is a co-director of WISERD and Professor of Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School. Her research and teaching is mainly concerned with labour rights, social justice and industrial relations in global supply chains, with a particular focus on the international garment sector.  She is an Associate of Labour Behind the Label and the Clean Clothes Campaign and has contributed to a range of practitioner reports in collaboration with trade unions as well as academic books and journal publications in her field.

Publications

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Teaching

Teaching commitments

Current Teaching:

I currently teach on the MSc International Management programme and am module leader for Globalisation and the Management of Labour.

Past Teaching Commitments:

Past teaching commitments have involved, lecturing on Employment Relations and International Human Resource Management at undergraduate level and International Business Environment at postgraduate level.

Supervision:

I supervise postgraduate and doctoral students in the field of employment relations and HRM, with a particular focus on labour conditions, organisation and labour rights in the international setting.

Research interests

  • Industrial relations in the international clothing sector
  • Work-life integration and decent work
  • Union-management partnership

PhD supervision research interests

  • Labour conditions in the international clothing sector, labour rights in global supply chains, organising strategies and trade unionism, precarious work.

Supervision

I am currently supervising doctoral students researching in the following areas:

Chinese HRM

Industrialisation and Trade Policies in Vietnam

Past projects

  • In 2018, I supervised four Masters students undertaking research project work in collaboration with Anti Slavery International.
  • Co-supervisor (33%) for Jenna Pandeli's doctorate on Prison Work.
  • Co-Supervisor (33%) for Mila Ivanova's doctorate on Shareholder Activism.

Areas of expertise

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