Suzan Lewis

Professor Lewis came to Middlesex in 2006. Prior to that she was a professor at MMU and a visiting professor at the (then) School of Management at UMIST. Her research focuses on gender and “work-life balance” issues and workplace practice, culture and change, in diverse national contexts. She has led many national and international research projects on these topics and has worked with employers and policy makers on work-life issues in Europe, Asia and North America. She has held research grants from the EU, The Ford Foundation, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ESRC,the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Tedworth Trust and the Department of Health. She was a founding editor of the journal Community, Work and Family

PhD Manchester School of Management, UMIST
MEd University of Manchester
BA (Hons) Psychology, University of Manchester

Work-life integration/work-life balance
Flexible working arrangements
Organisational culture
Organisational change
The impact of national and organisational policies to support the integration of work and personal life
Gender and work
Life course, Age and work
Vulnerable workers

Work-life integration
Flexible working
Gender equity
Organisational changet
Qualitative research methods

Selected research grants

2007-8 Member EU Expert Group on Women in Science, Technology and Engineering (action research project)
2006-8. UK partner in EU Framework Six project QUALITY : Quality of life in a changing Europe. European Commission (www.projectquality.org)
2003-5 Co-ordinator, Gender, Parenthood and Organisational change. (Transitions) Framework Five project. European Commission (www.workliferesearch.org/transitions
2001- 2003 Looking Backwards to Move Forwards. A study of the work-personal life movement in 7 countries. The Ford Foundation
2000-2002 Flexible futures: flexible working and home-work balance in the accountancy profession.. Centre for Business Performance, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
1998-9 Benchmarking work-family policies. Funded by The Post Office, HSBC, DfEE and the Industrial Society.
1998-9 The impact of organisational change on families. The Tedworth Trust
1996-8 Co-ordinator of EU study: The reconciliation of future work and family: Young people's orientations to work and family in five European states. European Commission1995-7 Parents combining employment with the care of disabled children: Supports and needs. Joseph Rowntree Foundation
1995-7 Parents combining employment with the care of disabled children: Supports and needs. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.(£38,564)
1995-6 Drug using mothers and the role of service providers. Department of Health.
1994-5 Illicit drug use in early motherhood. Department of Health.

Publications:

Selected publications (since 2000)

Bach Pedersen, V and Lewis, S (2012) Flexible friends? Flexible working time arrangements, blurred work-life boundaries and friendship Work, Employment and Society 26 . 3, 464 - 480
Herman, C and Lewis, S (2012) Entitled to a sustainable career? Motherhood in science, engineering and technology. Journal of Social Issues 68(4), 767-789
Herman, C., Lewis, S and Humbert, A (2012) Women Scientists and Engineers in European Companies: Putting Motherhood under the microscope Gender, Work and Organization
Den Dulk, L., Peper, B., Černigoj Sadar, N., Lewis, S., Smithson, J and Van Doorne-Huiskes, A (2011) Work, Family, and Managerial Attitudes and Practices in the European Workplace: Comparing Dutch, British, and Slovenian Financial Sector Managers, Social Politics 18(2) 300-329
Lewis, S (2010 ) Reflecting on impact, changes and continuities. Restructuring workplace cultures: the ultimate work-family challenge? Gender in Management Issue 25(5) 348-35
Lewis, S and Humbert, A (2010) Discourse or reality? “Work-life balance”, flexible working policies and gendered organisations Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 29 3 239-254
P Van Echtelt, A. Glebbeek, S.Lewis and S.Lindenburg (2009) Post-Fordist work: a man’s world? Gender and working overtime in the NetherlandsGender and Society 23, 188-214
Lewis,S., Brannen, J and Nilsen, A ( 2008 Work, Families amd Organizations in Transition. Policy Press
Gambles, R. Lewis, S and Rapoport, R ( 2007) The Myth of Work-Life Balance. Wiley
Lewis, S, Rapoport, R and Gambles, R, (2007), "The constraints of a 'work-life balance' approach: An international perspective", The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18 (3), 360-373, ISSN: 0958-5192.
Smithson, J., Lewis, S., Cooper, C. and Dyer, J. (2004). Flexible working and the gender pay gap in the accountancy profession. Work, Employment and Society 18/1 (115-135)
Lewis, S. Rapoport, and Gambles et al 2003 Reflections on the integration of work and personal life Journal of Managerial Psychology, 18, 824-841
Lewis, S 2003 The integration of work and personal life. Is post industrial work the new leisure? Leisure Studies 22 343-355
Lewis, S and Smithson, J (2001) Sense of entitlement to support for the reconciliation of employment and family life Human Relations 55(11). 1455-1481
Sullivan, C and Lewis, S (2001) Home-based telework, gender and the synchronisation of work and family; perspectives of teleworkers and their co-residents. Gender, Work and Organisation. 8,2 123-145
Lewis,S., Kagan,C and Heaton.P 2000 Dual earner parents with disabled children. Patterns for working and caring. Journal of Family Issues, 21 8 1031- 1060

Research:

Quality of working life in changing European contexts ( an EU Framework Six project www.projectquality.org) 2006-9
Gender, parenthood and the changing European Workplace (Transitions) (An EU Framework Five Project www.workliferesearch.org/transitions)
Women into Science and Technology. EU Expert Group. 2007-9

Authored Books:

Gambles, R, Lewis, S. and Rapoport, R (2006). The Myth of Work-Life Balance. The Challenge of our Time. Men, Women, and Societies. Wiley
Lewis, S and Cooper, C.L (2005) Work - Life Integration. Case Studies of Organisational Change. Wiley
Lewis, S Smithson, J. Cooper,C and Brennan P 2004 The Flexible and Profitable Workplace. A Guide to Implementing Flexible Working practices in Professional Services. London: Institute of Chartered `Accountants
Brannen, J. Lewis, S Nilsen , A and Smithson, J (2002) Young Europeans, Work and Family. Futures in Transition Routledge.
Klee,H., Jackson,M , Lewis, S (2002) ) Illicit Drug Use and Motherhood Routledge
Cooper,C.L. and Lewis, S 1998 Managing your Career, Family and Life. Kogan Page.
Cooper, C.L. and Lewis, S. 1993 The Workplace Revolution. Managing Today's Dual Career Families London: Kogan Page.
Lewis, S. and Cooper, C.L. Career Couples; Contemporary Lifestyles and How to Manage Them. London: Unwin Hyman. 1989

Edited Books:

Lewis, S., Brannen, J and Nilsen, A (in press) Work, Families and Organisations in Transition. Policy Press
Crompton, R., Lewis, S and Lyonette, C (eds) (2007) Women, Men, Work and Family in Europe. Palgrave
Lewis, S and Lewis, J (eds) The Work Family Challenge Rethinking Employment. Sage. London: Sage 1996
Lewis, S., Izraeli, D. and Hootsmans, H. (eds) Dual Earner Families. International Perspectives. London: Sage 1992

Articles and chapters in edited books (from 2005)

Rhona Rapoport, Suzan Lewis, Lotte Bailyn and Richenda Gambles (2005) Globalization and the Integration of Work with Personal Life in Work and family: An international research perspective. S. A. Y. Poelmans. Mahwah, NJ, Erlbaum.
Lewis, Suzan and Rhona Rapoport (2005). Looking backwards to go forwards: the integration of paid work and personal life. In: Peper, B., A. van Doorne-Huiskes & L. den Dulk (eds.). Flexible Working and Organisational Change. The Integration of Work andPersonal Life. Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar (pp. 298-312).
Lewis, S., Das Dores Guerreiro, M and Brannen, J. (2006) Using case studies in work-family research, in M.Pitt-Catsouphes, E. Kossek, and S. Sweet (Eds.). The Work-Family Handbook:Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches , Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers.
Sullivan, C. and Lewis, S. (2006) ‘Work at home and the work-family interface’ in F. Jones, R.J. Burke and M. Westman (Eds.) Managing the work-home interface: a psychological perspective (pp. 143-162) London: Psychology Press
Smithson, J and Lewis, S (2006) The Psychological Contract, in S Chaudhari (ed) Effective Psychological Contract Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press
Lewis, S (2007) Working time, client time and family time: accounting for time in the accountancy profession., in van der Lippe, T and Peters,P Competing Claims in Work ad Family Life , Edward Elgar.
Lewis, S, Purcell, C., Smithson, J and Caton, C (2007) Work-Life Balance, Best Practices and Healthy Organisations: A European Perspective in Haworth J and Hart, G(eds) Well Being: Individual, Community and Social Perspectives Palgrave
Kagan,C., Lewis, S and Brennan, E (2008) Building Community Supports for work-life Integration in Rosenzweig, J and Brennan, E (eds) Work, Life and the Mental health System of Care . Brookes
Lewis, S and Roper, I (2008) flexible working arrangements: from work-life to gender equity policies, in S. Cartwright and C. Cooper (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology. Oxford University Press
Humbert, A and Lewis, S (2009) “I have no life other than work”- Long working hours,blurred boundaries and family lifein C.L. Cooper and R.Burke (eds)Effects of workinghours and work addiction: Strategies for dealing with them. Elsevier
Suzan Lewis ( 2009) Flexible working policies, gender and culture change, in Women in Science and Technology. Creating sustainable careers. European Commission
Suzan Lewis and Rhona Rapoport ( 2009) Whither work-family relationships after the recession in Tomorrow World: Perspectives on work and family in the future London:Working Families.
Lewis, S and Den Dulk, L (2010) Parents’ experiences of flexible work arrangements in changing European workplaces in K Christensen and B Schneider (eds) Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th Century Jobs to 21st Century Workers; Cornell University Press

Prof Suzan Lewis