
Dr Kendra Briken
Senior Lecturer
Work, Employment and Organisation
Area of Expertise
- New Technologies and the Workplace
- Work and Gender
- Labour Process Analysis & Critical Theory
- Research Methods
- Trade Unions
- Organisation theory
Prize And Awards
- Awarded Guest Lectureship
- Recipient
- 1/6/2017
Publications
- Analysing the labour process and the global political economy of work
- Briken Kendra
- Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (2023) (2023)
- Industry 5 and the human in human-centric manufacturing
- Briken Kendra, Moore Jed, Scholarios Dora, Rose Emily, Sherlock Andrew
- Sensors Vol 23 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s23146416
- Technology and the organization of work
- Briken Kendra, MacKenzie Robert
- International Human Resource Management , pp. 275-296 (2022)
- Upskilling and intensification of work; are robots the answer?
- McQuarrie Johanna, Findlay Patricia, Briken Kendra
- Nordic Academy of Management (2019)
- Welcome in the machine. Human-machine relations and knowledge capture
- Briken Kendra
- Capital and Class (2019)
- Sei ohne sorge : vom vermessen und un-/sichtbarmachen akademischer sorgearbeit in der neoliberalen Hochschule
- Briken Kendra, Blättel-Mink Birgit, Rau Alexandra, Siegel Tilla
- Vermessene Räume – Gespannte Beziehungen Unternehmerische Universitaeten und Geschlechterdynamiken (2018) (2018)
Teaching
My teaching covers the broad range of sociology of work.
My core areas are:
- Sociology of Work
- Social Theory
- HRM and Public Sector
- (International) Employee Relations
- Surveillance Studies
Research Interests
My reserach interests are in the broad area of changing work and employment structures, with a focus on new technologies and re-roganisation. I did research the impact of the implementation of New Public Management on public servants in different nations and sectors (police, waste collection, energy). More recently, I started to investigate in the effects robotics-led workplaces have on job quality. I am also interested in reseraching trade unions, particularly in terms of their representational and oragnisational capacities. My research relies on inter-disciplinary as well as international collaborations.
Professional Activities
- Gender, Work and Organisation
- Speaker
- 28/6/2023
- The impact of the AI revolution on our businesses and teams
- Speaker
- 15/6/2023
- Gendered organisations and its impact on women's leadership trajectories
- Contributor
- 30/5/2023
- Is your organisation ready for the ChatGPT of things? (Episode 159, CIPD podcast)
- Recipient
- 2/5/2023
- International Labour Process Conference 2023
- Organiser
- 12/4/2023
- AI and workplace cultures. Unpacking the Human in Industry 5
- Chair
- 29/3/2023
Projects
- Fair Work in Scottish HEI's
- Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator)
- 18-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2023
- Amplifying Employee Voice and Hearing the Unheard: A Multidisciplinary Study of Contemporary Working Lives in Deindustrialised Communities
- Johnstone, Stewart (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Ian (Co-investigator) Hadjisolomou, Tasos (Co-investigator) McCarthy, Tony (Co-investigator) McIntyre, Stuart (Co-investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator) Taylor, Philip (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- Industry 4.0: Can AI ethics be embedded in the innovation lifecycle?
- Briken, Kendra (Principal Investigator) Rose, Emily (Co-investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- The Care Necessities - Developing Inclusive Digital Technologies for Scotland’s Post Pandemic Social Care (Digit Innovation Fund)
- Briken, Kendra (Principal Investigator) Cunningham, Ian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Cities as mobility hubs: tackling social exclusion through ‘smart’ citizen engagement SMARTDEST
- Baum, Thomas (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator) Sambajee, Pratima (Co-investigator)
- Cities as mobility hubs: tackling social exclusion through ‘smart’ citizen engagement(SMARTDEST) H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2022
- Pesticide, labour and public health
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator)
- Interdisciplinary, strategic research project to link hazardous chemicals to agricultural workplace risk
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
Contact
Dr
Kendra
Briken
Senior Lecturer
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: kendra.briken@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4074