PhD, MA, MBA

  • Labour Market Policies
  • Economic Governance
  • Employment Relations
  • Public Sector
  • Employment Relations

 

 

Prior to academic, research and teaching, David worked in local government as a Senior Policy Officer including 10 years (1984-1994) at Sheffield City Council within the Planning and Economic Development directorate where he was involved with developing economic and social regeneration policies for the city. Since 1994 he has been working in the University sector, as a Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at Huddersfield University and following this completed his PhD at the Open University. After completing his PhD, David was appointed as Principal Researcher in Centre for Economic and Development Research (in 2005) and has been involved as both leader and senior researcher in developing research in comparative welfare and active labour market policy with a specific interest on the Danish and Nordic models. Other research interests include employment and skills policy, economic governance, and social inclusion. Examples of recent research include devolution, regional governance and the economic needs of deprived localities (for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Welfare Reforms, Job rotation and active labour market policies for people with long term health problems in EU (funded by the British Academy), and Quality of Work and Life in a Changing Europe (for the European Commission). He is currently working on a research project in collaboration with the TUC Unionlearn on the role of the trade unions on the Sector Skills Councils.

Research:

Quality of Work in a Changing Europe (Framework 6) Job Rotation and Welfare Reforms (British Academy).

Recent Publications (since 2000)

Books:

  • Etherington, D. (2008) New Welfare Spaces: labour market policies in the UK and Denmark, Saarbruchen: VDM Dr Mueller
  • North, D., Syrett, S. and Etherington, D. (2007) Devolution and Regional Governance: Tackling the Economic Needs of Deprived Localities, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Articles and Chapters in Edited Books:

  • Etherington, D. (2004 ) The Politics of the Jobs Gap and Activation: Future Directions for Labour Market Policy in the UK and Denmark, in Henning Jorgensen, Herman Knudsen and Jens Lind, eds. Labour and employment regulation in Europe, Brussels: PIE Peter Lang.
  • Etherington, D. (2004) Gender, Welfare Regimes and Social Mobilisation: Comparative Reflections on the UK and Denmark, in J. Andersen and B. Siim, eds. Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment - a gender and citizenship perspective, London: Palgrave. pp 186-205.

Academic Refeered Journal Articles:

  • Etherington D and Jones M (2009) City Regions and New Geographies of Uneven Development and Inequality, Regional Studies, 43,2, 247-265
  • Jones M and Etherington D (2009) Governing the Skills Agenda: Insights from the Sheffield City Region, Local Economy 24:1 68-79
  • North, D., Syrett, D., & Etherington, D. ‘Tackling concentrated worklessness: integrating governance and policy across and within spatial scales’ Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 27 (6). 2009 (published on line 9/09)
  • Cochrane A and Etherington, D (2007) Managing local labour markets and making up new spaces of welfare, Environment and Planning A 39 2958-2974
  • Cole, I and Etherington D (2005) Neighbourhood Renewal Policy and Spatial Differentiation in Housing Markets: Recent Trends in England and Denmark European Journal of Housing Policy 5,1, 77-97
  • Etherington, D. and Jones, M. (2004) Welfare-through-work and the re-regulation of labour markets in Denmark, Capital and Class, 83, 19-46.
  • Etherington, D. and Jones, M. (2004) Whatever Happened to Local Government ? Labour Market Policy in the UK and Denmark, Policy and Politics 32 no 2, 137-50
  • Etherington, D. and Jones, M. (2004) Beyond contradictions of the workfare state ?: Denmark,welfare-through-work, and the promises of job-rotation, Environment and Planning C: Government andPolicy 22, 129-148 .

Official Reports:

  • 2009 Mystery Shopping: the early stages of the Business Link Services ( Department of Business Innovation and Skills 2009) CEEDR (2009) Mystery Shopping: the early stages of the Business Link Services, Report to the Business Innovation and Skills, London BIS (with Baldock, R., North, D., Etherington, D., & Ekanem I.)
  • 2009 Alternative Approaches to Capacity Building: Practices in the Public and Private Sectors, (Capacity Builders) CEEDR/ University of Birmingham (2009) Alternative Approaches to Capacity Building: Practices in the Public and Private Sectors, London Capacity Builders.
  • Employing IB claimants in Ealing PCT and London Borough of Ealing: A feasibility study into developing a Job Rotation Pilot ( Ealing Primary Care Trust, 2008) Etherington D with Coyne P (2008) Employing IB claimants in Ealing PCT and London Borough of Ealing: A feasibility study into developing a Job Rotation Pilot, Research Report to Ealing Primary Care Trust, London, Middlesex University
  • 2006-2009 Quality of Life in a Changing Europe (European Commission DG Research Framework 6 C Etherington, D, Lewis, S, and Mark, A, (2008) United Kingdom: report on emerging themes from the interviews, http://www.projectquality.org/files/pdf_D4.1_UKpdf

Lewis S Etherington D Mark A and Brookes M (2008) Comparative Report on the Innovation Groups, London: Middlesex University Business School

  • 2008 Local Area Agreements (LAAs) and Local Economic Development (Department of Communities and Local Government)Syrett, S North, D., Baldock. R, Etherington D and Engelbert (2008) Local Area Agreements (LAAs) and Local Economic Development, Report completed for Regeneration and Economic Development Analysis (REDA), DCLG by Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University, November 2008

  • 2007 Review of Economic Assessments and Strategic Activity at the Local and Sub Regional Level, Report for Neighbourhoods, Cities and Regions Analysis of the Department of Communities and Local Government, Syrett S, Baldock, R. Bertotti, M. Lyon, Etherington, D. Engelbert, S .

  • 2005 -2007 Devolution and regional governance: tackling the economic needs of deprived localities ( Joseph Rowntree Foundation ) North, D., Syrett, S. and Etherington, D. (2007) Devolution and Regional Governance: Tackling the Economic Needs of Deprived Localities, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York. 1-119 North, D., Syrett, S. and Etherington, D. (2007) Devolved Governance and the Economic Problems of Deprived Areas: The Cases of Scotland, Wales and four English Regions, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York. North, D., Syrett, S. and Etherington, D. (2007) Interventions to tackle the Economic Needs of Deprived Areas: Analysis of Six Policy Case Studies, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York

Conference papers:

  • Etherington D and Jones M (2009) Governance Geographies of Vocational Training and Employability in the EU, paper to the ETUI/Aspen Conference, Activation and Security, Brno, Czech Republic, 20-21 March 2009.
  • Etherington D Syrett S and North D (2008) Tackling Concentrated Worklessness: Integrating Governance and Policy Across and Within Spatial Scales, Regional Studies Association Conference “Working Regions” London, November 28, 2008.
  • Etherington D and Jones M (2008) World Class Skills? Governance Geographies and the Delivery of Life Long Learning in the EU, Paper to RSA Working Group, Employability and Labour Market Policy European (and International ) Perspectives, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 7 March 2008.
  • North, D Syrett S and Etherington D (2007) Tackling Concentrated Worklessness in Deprived Localities: Integrating Interventions Across Spatial Scales, Paper presented at the Regional Studies Association,Working Group’s seminar on Employability and Labour Market Policy in European Perspective, Edinburgh, 4-5 October, 2007
  • Etherington, D (2007) Devolution, Regional Governance and the Economic Needs of Deprived Areas, CRESR Seminar Series Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, 10 October 2007
  • Etherington, D and Jones M (2007) City Regions, Competitiveness and Labour Market Inequalities, Conference on Performing Regions/Regional Performance: Regions and Regionalism in and beyond Europe, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, 17-19 September 2007
  • Etherington, D (2007) Welsh Assembly Government Want2Work Pilot: A Different Path to Labour Market Policy? Preliminary Findings Paper to Community Work and Family Conference : Making the Connections in a Global Context, Lisbon 12-14 April, 2007
  • Etherington D and Andersen, J (2006) Not networks but political mobilisation? The new urban governance and the inclusive labour market in European cities, Paper to European Urban and Regional Studies Conference, Roskilde, Denmark, 21-22 September, 2006.
  • Etherington, D, (2005a) Poverty, Low Pay and Worklessness in Sheffield: Proposals for Change, report presented to the Employment Advisory Board, Sheffield First for Learning and Work, 19 January, 2005, Sheffield.
  • Etherington D, (2005b) Economic competitiveness and social inclusive labour market policies: lessons from the UK and Denmark, Paper to EU Compete Conference “Human Resources – Motor of City Region Competitiveness,”Dortmund, 28-30 September 2005.
  • Etherington D (2005c) “Nice work if you can get it:” labour regulation and low pay in a de-industrialised city, Paper to a Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research Seminar, Middlesex University Business School, Hendon, London, 14 December 2005.
  • Etherington,D.North,D and Syrett, S (2005) RDAs and the new focus on deprived and sustainable communities – rhetoric or reality? Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, ‘Sustainable Regions: Making Regions Work’, London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre, 24th November 2005