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Dr Claudio Morrison

Senior Research Fellow - HRM

Claudio Morrison

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Strategy, Leadership & Operations

  • Location London

Research activities

From 1997 to 2013, Claudio has been continuously involved in ethnographic research  on industrial restructuring, workplace relations, trade unions and later international migration and labour mobility across the former Soviet Union, under supervision and mentorship of the late Prof. Simon Clarke and Richard Croucher. His current research includes labour mobility and industrial relations in Russia as well as  Research Ethics and Accountability. In 2021-2023, Claudio led "Learning from Labour: Critical pedagogy for working students", a pilot research among MDX students on their experiences of combining jobs with studying and the difficulties they encounter in the workplace. Impactful engagements with external bodies has followed including Wonkhe SU and Citizens UK London which awarded our Research Team for contribution to the Living Wage Campaign.


Current Teaching

My current teaching portfolio include modules at undergraduate level in the fields of Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour and Comparative Employment Relations. I have previously taught in the area of Qualitative methods, Corporate Strategy and Migration. I regularly supervise postgraduate dissertations and have experience of PhD supervision.


Biography

Claudio Morrison isSenior Research Fellow at Middlesex University Business School. He previouslyheld a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Sociology department ofWarwick University where he obtained his PhD. Claudio’s long-standing interestlies in the labour process, working lives and resistance practices ofpost-socialist workers; more recently, he has been concerned with the ethicsand epistemology of workplace ethnography, and actively involved in thepromotion of critical and reflective learning in teaching. His areas ofexpertise include comparative employment relations, international labourmigration, soviet and post-socialist studies, research ethics and qualitativemethods. From 1997 to 2013, Claudio has been continuously involved inethnographic research across the former Soviet Union under supervision andmentorship by Simon Clarke. His current research includes labour mobility andindustrial relations in Russia. His publications have featured, among others, inthe British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, Work,Employment and Society. He is the author of ‘A Russian Factory Enters theMarket Economy’ (Routledge 2008, 2012).

Qualifications

Title: PhD

Notes: Awarded in 2004

Institution: University of Warwick


Publications

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