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      Prof Suzan Lewis

      ROLE: Professor
      SCHOOL: Business School
      DEPARTMENT: Management Leadership & Organisations
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 4804
      EMAIL: S.Lewis@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Professor Suzan (Sue) 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 ILO, 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.  Sue chairs the Richard Benjamin Trust  which  supports  high impact  organizational and social psychology  projects by early career researchers . She was  founding co-editor of the journal Community, Work and Family.

        Qualifications

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

        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        • Work-life balance
        • Flexible working
        • Gender equity
        • Organizational culture
        • Organisational change
        • Maternity protection
        • Assisted reproductive technology treatment and employment
        • Cross national research
        • Life course research
        • Qualitative research methods
        • Action research

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        • Gender and work
        • 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
        • Maternity protection
        • Life course
        • Vulnerable workers

        Publications:

        Selected publications (since 2000)

        • Lewis, S., Anderson, D., Lyonette, C., Payne, N and Wood, S (2017) Public sector austerity cuts in the UK and the changing discourse of work–life balance. Work, Employment and Society. Vol. 31(4) 586–604(http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0950017016638994)

        • Lewis, S., Anderson, D., Lyonette, C., Payne, N and Wood, S (eds) ( 2016) Work-Life Balance in times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond NewYork: Routledge

        • Stumbitz, B., Lewis, S. and Rouse, J. (in press, 2017). ‘Maternity Management in SMEs: A Transdisciplinary Review and Research Agenda’. International Journal of Management Reviews . DOI:10.1111/ijmr.12143

        • Beham, B., Drobnic, S., Prag, P., Baierl, A and Lewis, S ( in press)   Work-to-Family Enrichment and Gender Inequalities in Eight European Countries. International Journal of Human Resource Management , DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2017.1355837. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1355837

        • Roper, I., Etherington, D and Lewis, S ( in press) Hollowing out national agreements in the NHS? The case of ‘Improving Working Lives’ under a ‘Turnaround’ plan Employee Relations

        • Van der Acker, O, Payne, N and Lewis , S ( in press) "Catch 22? Disclosing Assisted Conception treatment at work" in International Journal of Workplace Health Management.

        • Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, U., Smithson, J. & Lewis, S. (2014). Focus group methodology in a life course approach – individual accounts within a peer cohort group. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(2), 157–171.
        • 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 and 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

        A complete list of Suzan's publications can be found here.

        Publication Feed

        Maternity protection in formal and informal economy workplaces: the case of Ghana

        Stumbitz, Bianca and Lewis, Suzan and Kyei, Abigail A. and Lyon, Fergus (2018) Maternity protection in formal and informal economy workplaces: the case of Ghana. World Development, 110 . pp. 373-384. ISSN 0305-750X

        The meanings of work-life balance: a cultural perspective

        Lewis, Suzan and Beauregard, T. Alexandra (2018) The meanings of work-life balance: a cultural perspective. In: The Cambridge handbook of the global work-family interface. Johnson, Ryan C. and Shen, Winny and Kristen, Shockley , eds. Cambridge University Press, pp. 720-732. ISBN 9781108415972

        From ‘balancers’ to ‘integrators’? Young professionals’ talk about ‘work’ and the rest of ‘life’ in the UK

        Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Uracha and Lewis, Suzan (2011) From ‘balancers’ to ‘integrators’? Young professionals’ talk about ‘work’ and the rest of ‘life’ in the UK. In: Creating Balance? International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals. Kaiser, Stephan and Ringlstetter, Max Josef and Eikhof, Doris Ruth and Pina e Cunha, Miguel , eds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 47-63. ISBN 9783642161988

        Making a Difference with Psychology

        Niven, Karen and Lewis, Suzan and Kagan, Carolyn , eds. (2017) Making a Difference with Psychology. Richard Benjamin Trust, Manchester, UK. ISBN 978-1-788808-566-3

        Work-to-family enrichment and gender inequalities in eight European countries

        Beham, Barbara and Drobnič, Sonja and Präg, Patrick and Baierl, Andreas and Lewis, Suzan (2017) Work-to-family enrichment and gender inequalities in eight European countries. The International Journal of Human Resource Management . ISSN 0958-5192 (Published online first)

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        Selected research grants

        • 2014-5 PI, ESRC Seminar series: Work Life Balance in the Recession and Beyond
        • 2013 Funding for Review paper on maternity protection in SMEs and productivity, ILO
        • 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 Commission
        • 1995-7 Parents combining employment with the care of disabled children: Supports and needs. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
        • 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.

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        • Chair, Richard Benjamin Trust ( Grant giving body for early  career researchers)
        • Vice president Work-Family Researchers Network  2015-16

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