Dr Kendra Briken

Senior Lecturer

Work, Employment and Organisation

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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.

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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

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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)

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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
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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

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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

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Contact

Dr Kendra Briken
Senior Lecturer
Work, Employment and Organisation

Email: kendra.briken@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4074