Dr Kendra Briken
Senior Lecturer
Work, Employment and Organisation
Personal statement
As a trained sociologist, my research focusses on work, emplyment, and technology. I am specifically interested in developments around digitalisation of work, the decision making processes around the invention and implementation of new technologies, and workforce outcomes. I am interested in the cross-sectional emerging varieties of automation, the related power structures, and how they are impacting on work and life. The integrity of teaching and research is crucial to my pedagogical approaches.
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