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.
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.
A complete list of Suzan's publications can be found here.
Borg, Anna and den Dulk, Laura and Lewis, Suzan and Santos, Clarice (2020) Community, work and family in diverse contexts and changing times. Community, Work & Family , 23 (5). pp. 497-502. ISSN 1366-8803
Miles, Lilian and Lewis, Suzan and Teng, Lai Wan and Mat Yasin, Suziana (2019) Advocacy for women migrant workers in Malaysia through an Intersectionality lens. Journal of Industrial Relations . ISSN 0022-1856 (Published online first)
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
Stumbitz, Bianca and Lewis, Suzan and Rouse, Julia (2018) Maternity management in SMEs: a transdisciplinary review and research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews , 20 (2). pp. 500-522. ISSN 1460-8545
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
