M.Phil, 'An Evaluation of Employee Participation in Occupational Safety', CNAA, 1980.
BA (Hons) Business Studies, Upper Second, CNAA, 1976
Eleven PhDs supervised to completion. At present engaged in supervising two students.
External examinations of doctorates have been undertaken at City, Kent, Teeside, Manchester, Warwick, Bath, Kent, Strathclyde and Cardiff universities, as well as the University of New South Wales.
My research interests and outputs have spanned a wide range of issues within the fields of employment relations and occupational health and safety. Recent topics that have been a focus of research include the inter-organisational relations between multinationals and their overseas subsidiaries; the employment dynamics within domestic and global supply chains; the regulation of workplace health and safety within such chains; regulatory policy relating to occupational health and safety (including in relation to Covid-19); the links between employment regulation and manufacturing productivity; union renewal; the implmentation of a living wage in Scottish social care, and employment relations more widely in this sector.
Publications since 2014 include:
Booklets and reports
Cunningham, Ian and James, Philip and Baluch, Alina M. and Cullen, Anne-Marie (2022) Introducing Fair Work through ‘soft’ regulation in outsourced public service networks: Explaining unintended outcomes in the implementation of the Scottish living wage policy. Industrial Law Journal . ISSN 0305-9332 (Published online first)
Cunningham, Ian and James, Philip and Baluch, Alina M. (2022) The influence of 'soft' fair work regulation on union recovery: a case of re-recognition in the Scottish voluntary social care sector. Industrial Relations Journal , 53 (3). pp. 261-277. ISSN 0019-8692
James, Philip and Baluch, Alina M. and Cunningham, Ian and Cullen, Anne-Marie (2021) Supply chain regulation in Scottish social care: facilitators and barriers. Economic and Industrial Democracy . ISSN 0143-831X (Published online first)
Croucher, Richard and Houssart, Mark and Miles, Lilian and James, Philip (2019) Legal sanction, international organisations and the Bangladesh Accord. Industrial Law Journal , 48 (4). pp. 549-570. ISSN 0305-9332
Ciuk, Sylwia and James, Philip and Śliwa, Martyna (2019) Micropolitical dynamics of interlingual translation processes in an MNC subsidiary. British Journal of Management , 30 (4). pp. 926-942. ISSN 1045-3172
2021: 'Reward to retain', joint project with A; Baluch (St Andrews University) and I. Cunningham( Strathclyde University), funded by Unison, £21,000.
2018: 'Implementing the Living Wage in Scotland's adult social care sector', joint project with A. Baluch (St Andrews University) and I. Cunningham (Strathclyde University), funded by CCPS, £10,000.
2017-2020: 'Local Cornerstone: An evaluation of franchising and self-governing teams', joint project with A. Baluch (St Andrews University) and I. Cunningham (Strathclyde University, funded by Cornerstone charity, £60,000.
2017: Occupational health and safety in global supply chains in agriculture', joint project with D. Walters (Cardiff University), funded by ILO, £50,000.
2016: 'Personalisation, austerity and their impact on Unison members', joint project with Ian Cunningham (Strathclyde University), funded by Unison, £25,000.
2015-16: 'Line managers' roles and social care workers' commitment', joint project with A. Baluch (St Andrews University and Ian Cunningham (Strathclyde University),funded by British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant, £9,600.
2009-2011: 'The role of supply chains in influencing health and safety management in three sectors', joint project with D. Walters, funded by Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, £125,000.
2008-2009: 'Supply chains and their health and safety implications', joint project with D. Walters (Cardiff University), funded by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, £64,000.
2006: 'False economy? The costs of contracting and workforce insecurity in the voluntary sector', joint project with I. Cunningham, funded by Unison, £12,741.
2005: 'Directors responsibilities for health and safety', funded by the Health and Safety Executive, £15,000.
2001-2003: 'Perceptions of health and safety in small ethnic firms', joint project with D. Smallbone and I. Vickers, funded by the Health and Safety Executive, £96,000.
2001- 2002: 'Job retention and vocational rehabilitation', joint project with P. Dibben and I. Cunningham, funded by the Health and Safety Executive, £51,386.
2001: 'Review of attendance management in H.M. Prison Service', H.M. Prison Service, £11,000.
2000-2001: 'Employers and the job retention of ill and injured workers: a study of recent Dutch initiatives', Nuffield Foundation, £2,584.
1999-2000: 'Meeting the skills and training needs of small printing fims', collaborator in project led by D. Smallbone, funded by European Social Fund, £91,245.
1999: 'Costs and Benefits of TUC affiliation', Royal College of Midwives, £5,000.
1999 'Employers and the management of long-term sickness', Joseph Rowntree Foundation, £4,500.
1997- 1999: 'Corporate environmental policies: Use, implementation and evaluation', joint project with A. Ghobadian, S. Homewood, D. Holt and H. Viney, funded by MUBS incentive grant, £40,000.
1997 - 1999: 'Absence and return to work', joint project with I. Cunningham, funded by NFFR grant, £31,000.
1996 - 1997: 'Health and safety management and workforce involvement in the NHS', project with A. Kyprianou, funded by Middlesex University Business School (MUBS) small research grant, £1,200.
1995 -1996: 'Survey of corporate environmental policies', joint project with A. Ghobadian, funded by Industrial Relations Services, £2,800.
1995: 'Joint management-union training activity in the US auto industry', funded by Nuffield Foundation Small Grant, £2,500.
1994 -1996: 'The implementation of total quality management', joint project with A. Ghobadian and J. Liu, funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), £15,000.
1994 - 1988: 'Corporate strategies in the privatised electricity industry', joint project with A. Ghobadian, funded through HEFC funds, £33,000.
1992 - 1994: 'The impact of privatisation on business strategy and human resource management in the Electricity Supply industry', joint project with R. Brennan, funded by Middlesex University Small Grant, £800.
1990 - 1991: 'The implementation of flexibility agreements in manufacturing industry', funded by Middlesex University Small Grant, £500.
