Lisa is an experienced researcher and Senior Lecturer at the MLO. She has most recently led the international research project Wind energy and the just transition. Political and socio-economic pinch points in wind turbine manufacturing and windfarm communities in Europe and South Africa.
Before working in academia, she was a HR practitioner in recruitment and international human resource management.
Lisa holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich. She wrote her PhD thesis on "Industrial Policy, Skill Formation, and Job Quality in the Danish, German and English Offshore Wind Turbine Industries".
She has a M.A. in Political Sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and a PGCert HE from Middlesex University.
German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Lisa is module leader for the UG module MGT3998 Research Project and gives seminars on the UG module HRM3018 Workforce Managements.
She has taught and led on variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules related to HRM, Employment Relations and Organisational Psychology.
Lisa’s research interest is the Just Transition in industries and communities in the global north and south.
She has most recently led the international research project Wind energy and the just transition. Political and socio-economic pinch points in wind turbine manufacturing and windfarm communities in Europe and South Africa. Grant VOCJT210011
Moreover, she worked on two major research projects:
TEMS ‘The Effects of Marketization on Societies. The Case of Europe’ funded with £1.15m by the European Research Council (PI Prof. Ian Greer, University of Greenwich)
MESEC ‘Marketization of Employment Services in European Countries’ funded with Euros 290k by the German Hans-Boeckler-Foundation (PI Prof. Matthias Knuth, IAQ Duisburg-Essen)
She has also contributed to various international research projects as research contractor.
View more publicationsGrants and Awards:
2021 £62,545.00 Just Transitions within Sektors and Industries Globally Programme, Project 'Wind energy and the Just Transition: Political and socio-economic pinch points in wind turbine manufacturing and windfarm communities in Europe and South Africa (VOCJT210011)' awarded by the British Academy
2016 £5k Santander scholarship funded International Fellowship at Cornell University
2012-2015 Three £2k Small Grants from the University of Greenwich’s Work and Employment Research Unit
2012-2015 £24k PhD bursary, awarded by University of Greenwich Business School
2006-2007 Erasmus Scholarship, awarded by University of Geneva
Conference Papers
Single Author
Lisa Schulte. 2017. Romance or chimaera? Job quality in the offshore wind industry. International Labour Process Conference, Sheffield, 4-6 April
Lisa Schulte. 2017. How to help the (local) unemployed accessing ‘green’ jobs? Early Career Conference ‘Developing future agendas in welfare to work research’, BSA/University of Leeds, 27 January
Lisa Schulte. 2016. Manufacturing at the periphery: Directly employed and agency workers in theDanish and the German offshore wind turbine industry. Industry Studies Conference 2016, LERA 68th Annual Meeting, 26 May.
Lisa Schulte. 2015. Building an industry for offshore wind farm equipment. Experiences in three European countries. Complex Assessment of Climate Change Impacts- Preparing International R&D Projects in the University of West Hungary, TÁMOP-4.2.2.D-15/1/KONV-2015-0023, Online Conference, 28 August.
Lisa Schulte. 2015. Labour relations and training in Europe’s offshore wind sector. Three case studies. Presentation for Visiting Students from Leuphana Universität, University of Greenwich, 27 February.
Lisa Schulte. 2014. Competitive pressures, employment relations, and skill formation in the offshore wind farm equipment production. PhD course ‘Contemporary Challenges to Industrial Relations, Europeanization, Capitalism(s) and the Implications for Welfare States and Employment Relations’, University of Aalborg, 29 September – 1 October.
Lisa Schulte. 2014. Employment and training systems under pressure in the European renewable energy sector. Industry Studies Association Conference, Portland, Oregon, 27-29 May.
Lisa Schulte. 2013. The wind energy sector – skill development initiatives in different institutional contexts. PhD Colloquium, University of Greenwich Business School. Greenwich, 27 February.
Lisa Schulte. 2012. Romance or chimaera? Job creation by offshore wind. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Lisbon, 5-7 September.
Co-authored Conference Papers and Research Reports
Lisa Schulte; Charles Umney; Ian Greer; Graham Symon; Katia Iankova. 2016. Active labour market schemes in the Parisian suburbs: insertion versus workfare. Work, Employment and Society Conference, Leeds, 6-8 September
Karen Breidahl, Matthias Knuth, Flemming Larsen and Lisa Schulte. 2015. The marketization of employment services in UK, Germany and Denmark. Inherent dilemmas and trade offs. Council of European Studies Conference, Paris, 8-10 July; XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, 13-19 July 2014.
Ian Greer, Katia Iankova, Lisa Schulte and Graham Symon. 2015. ”Creaming and parking” inmarketized welfare-to-work services: Evidence from Germany, the UK and France. Council of European Studies Conference, Paris, 8-10 July.
Ian Greer, Katia Iankova, Graham Symon and Lisa Schulte. 2013. 'Marketization and misbehaviour in welfare-to-work services. Evidence from Germany, the UK, and France. Workshop on Politics of Markets, University of Westminster, London, 13 June.
Ian Greer, Lisa Schulte and Graham Symon. 2015. Großbritannien: Vermarktlichung – ein Vehikel zur Privatisierung der Dienstleistungserbringung. Abschlussworkshop des Forschungsprojekts MESEC, Die Vermarktlichung von Arbeitsdienstleistungen im Europäischen Vergleich, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, 23-24 April.
Matthias Knuth and Lisa Schulte. 2014. Vermarktlichung von Dienstleistungen zur "Aktivierung" von Langzeitarbeitslosen – ein deutsch-britischer Vergleich. Initiative Social Science Service Research, München, 27-28 March.
Graham Symon, Ian Greer, Lisa Schulte and Katia Iankova. 2015. “Creaming and parking“: Contracting and front-line-work in Germany, the UK and France. International Labour Process Conference, Athens, 13-15 April.
Other
Invited Guest Lecture
Lisa Schulte. 2016. Romance or Chimaera? Job quality in the offshore wind industry. IRRU seminar, University of Warwick, 9 November
Conference Panel
Prof. Carla Lipsig Mummé (Chair) (York University, Canada); Dean Stroud (Cardiff University); Donald Lafleur (Executive VC, Canadian Labour Congress); Lisa Schulte (University of Middlesex). 2017. Green Issues: Climate change and digitalisation, International Labour Process Conference, Sheffield, 5 April
Chaired conference sessions at the Industry Studies Association Conference and at the University of Greenwich
Visiting Secondments, International Exchange:
05/2016 – 08/2016 International Fellow, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR School), Ithaca, New York, USA (Santander Scholarship)
06/2014, 08/2-14, 11/2014, Visiting PhD Student, CARMA, University of Aalborg, Denmark. CARMA summer school on ‘Contemporary Challenges to Industrial Relations’
08/2012 WSI Summer School on ‘Industrial Relations and Crisis Management in Germany – Lessons for Europe’, Berlin, Germany
07/2012 – 08/2012 Visiting PhD Student and Research Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2006 – 2007 Erasmus Scholarship, Freie Universität Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Sciences, Germany
Volunteering:
4/2010 – 4/2012 Vice Chair, Advisory Board, Internationale Jugendgemeinschaftsdienste (ijgd), Bundesverein, Germany
08/2006 – 10/2006 Volunteer at Kubin Junan kindergarden project, St. Antonio-Aguas-Calientes, Guatemala
