An ESRC WAM-Net One-Day Seminar
Organised by:
WAM-net (Network on Work Attitude Measures) and
GeNet (ESRC Research Network on Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction)
The fifth in an ESRC series of seminars which focus on ways of measuring and surveying work attitudes. Previous seminars at the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, Cardiff and at the Institute of Education in London, covered issues related to work orientations, evaluations of attitude measures, and different disciplinary perspectives to work attitude measurement. The Strathclyde seminar, which was hosted by Dora Scholarios from the Business School, focused on attitudes to work-life balance, including both conceptual papers and reports from ongoing empirical survey work.
Speakers Included:
Jackie Scott, University of Cambridge (GeNet)
"Attitudes towards Work-life Balance: The Challenge of Cross-national Comparisons"
Diane Houston, Dept of Psychology, University of Kent
"Attitudes to Work and Family Life/WLB in the 21st Century"
Jane Elliott & Maggie Hancock, Centre for Longitudinal studies, Institute of Education London
"Work Commitment through the Lifecourse"
Laura Biggart, Centre for Research on the Child and the Family, University of East Anglia
"Fathers' working patterns: Findings from the Third Work-life Balance Survey 2006 and the Maternity and Paternity Rights and Benefits Survey 2005"
Stephen Wood, Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield University
"Family-work Conflict and Well-being amongst Portfolio Workers"
