Alessandra Vecchi
PhD International Business (University of Bath); MA European Integration Studies (University of Bath and University of Washington) 2000; BSc Economics (University of Bologna) 1998.
Alessandra was a Postdoctoral Researcher based in the International Institute of Integration Studies (IIIS). She was working on the overarching research project ‘Business as a Conduit for Globalisation’ which consisted of three separate strands: Mobile Lives, IMSS IV and Trade Fairs. She has taught in the areas of International Business and European Integration Studies. Her research interests span from competitive advantage, value creation and strategic upgrading of industrial clusters to industrial policy and entrepreneurship.
Selected Publications
Crowe D., Vecchi A., Brennan L. & Coughlan P., Manufacturing strategy and innovation in indigenous and foreign firms: An international study, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2006.
Selected Presentations
Collins G. & Vecchi A., ‘Goldilocks and the cleaning companies: Collective coordination among contract cleaning companies’, Regional Studies Association, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark, 2005.
Wickham J., Vecchi A., Haynes P., Flying around the globe and bringing business back home, European Sociological Association Annual Conference, Torun, Poland, September 2005.
Gráinne Collins
DPhil Economics (University of Ulster) 1998; MSc Applied Economics 1993 (University of Ulster); BA Hons Economics 1990 (Thames Valley University).
Gráinne joined the ERC as a Research Fellow in 1999. An economist by training, she has worked on poverty measurement, social exclusion issues and the quality of training and working life for employees in the service sector. Her current research interests include trust in the workplace and housecleaning. She is also on the council of the European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economy.
Selected Publications
Collins G. (2006) 'Germs, Globalisation and Gender: The Making of a Food Scare' in M.P. Corcoran and M Peillon (Eds.) Irish Sociological Chronicles, vol. 5.
Collins, G. and Browne, J. (2005) 'Taking fathers seriously: A study of flexible working in an Irish Company' in G. Collins and G. Boucher (Eds.) Working in Ireland, Dublin: Liffey Press.
Collins, G. (2005) 'Trust in post-bureaucratic organizations' in J. Finch and M. Orillard (Eds.) Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy: Edward Elgar, pp. 247-278.
Collins, G. (2005) 'Seven Reasons why Mergers are Gendered', Gender Work and Organisation, vol. 12, no. 3, pp 270-289.
Wickham, J. and Collins, G. (2004) 'The Call Centre: A Nursery for New Forms of Work Organisation', Service Industries Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1-18.
Collins, G. and Wickham, J. (2004) 'Inclusion or exploitation? Irish women enter the labour force', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 26-46.
Collins, G. (2003) The Economic Case for Mergers: Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue, Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 37, no. 4, pp.987-998.
Boucher, G. and Collins, G. (2003) 'Having One's Cake And Being Eaten Too: Irish Neo-Liberal Corporatism, Review of Social Economy, vol. 61, no. 3, pp 295-316.
Collins, G. and Wickham J. (2002) 'Experiencing Mergers: A Woman's Eye View', Women's Studies International Forum , vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 573-583.
Selected Presentations
Collins, G. and Vecchi, A. (2005) 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears: the role of proximity in cooperation'. Paper presented at the Regional Studies Association Annual Conference. 28th - 31st May 2005.
Collins, G. (2005) 'Mrs. Wesley and the House-elves: Theorising Cleaning'. Paper presented at the Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Nenagh. 22nd - 24th April 2005.
Collins G. (2004) 'Trust and Knowledge in the Flexible European Workplace: The policy implications of the new forms of work organisation'. Paper presented at the Final Conference for Infowork Project, Brussels.
Collins G., Greco, L. and Wickham, J. (2004) 'Organisational Forms and Equality'. Paper presented at EGOS, Slovenia.
Collins G., Meehan, A. and Grimsley, M. (2004) 'Community Trust: employers, employees, employment, community'. Paper presented at European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economics, Crete.
Collins G., Meehan, A and Grimsley, M. (2004) 'Community Trust: employers, employees, employment, community'. Paper presented at Work, Employment and Society Conference, Manchester.
Collins G. (2004) 'Learning in an Informal Cluster', CRITICAL Conference, Melbourne.
Christian Schweiger
PhD Politics (University of Derby) 2003; MA Politics, Sociology and English (University of Regensburg) 1999.
Christian was a Research Fellow at the ERC. His doctoral thesis investigated Britain's and Germany's policies regarding the reform and the enlargement of the European Union. He worked on the DYNAMO project as well as teaching European Labour Markets at Trinity. He is Marketing and External Relation Relations Officer for the German Politics Specialist Group of the British Political Studies Association (PSA) and also a member of the Association for the Study of German Politics (ASGP). His main research interests are the EU’s institutional and policy developments, British-German relations, Globalisation and economic reform and U.S.-European security relations.
Christian is currently lecturing at Durham University.
Selected Publications
Schweiger, C. (forthcoming, 2006) 'Britain, Germany and the Future of the European Union', Basingstoke: PalgraveMacMillan,
New Perspectives in German Studies book series.
Schweiger, C. (2005) 'The Role of the Modell Deutschland in the Enlarged European Union', Debatte: Journal of Contemporary
Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 13, No.3, pp. 243-263.
Schweiger C. (2004) 'British-German Relations in the European Union after the War on Iraq', German Politics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 35-55.
Selected Presentations
Schweiger C. 'The Impact of the Decline of the Modell Deutschland on Germany's Standing in Europe'. Paper presented at the 55th Annual British PSA Conference, University of Leeds, 7 April 2005.
Schweiger C. 'The Role of Actors and Ideas in Bi-Lateral Relations: A Case Study of German-British Relations'. Paper presented at the 55th Annual British PSA Conference, University of Leeds, 7 April 2005.
Schweiger C. 'The Ghosts of "Old Europe"? U.S.-German Relations under the Red-Green Coalition in Berlin'. Paper presented at the PSA German Politics Specialist Group workshop Consensus and Challenges to Consensus in German Politics, University of Durham, 18-19 December 2004.
Ian Bruff
PhD International Political Economy (University of Leeds) 2005; MA International Political Economy (University of Leeds) 2000; BA Political Studies (University of Leeds) 1999.
Ian Bruff was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for International Integration Studies, where he worked on the ERC project 'Migrants' concerning immigrants in Ireland and how this impacts on, among other things, the organisation of work and the notion of citizenship.
Ian has lectured and taught on modules covering globalisation, European economic sociology, political theory, European and EU politics, and international relations.
His broad research interests are: political economy (especially European), labour markets and their interaction with the wider socio-economic context, social theory, economic sociology, and philosophies of social science. Ian's overarching commitment is to a neo-Gramscian framework of analysis, which was
used in his PhD to explain the relative economic success of small European countries with regard to the role of national culture.
Ian can be contacted at ianbruff@gmail.com
Selected Publications
Bruff, I. (2005) 'Making Sense of the Globalisation Debate When Engaging in Political Economy Analysis', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 261-80.
Bruff, I. (2003) 'The Netherlands, the Challenge of Lijst Pim Fortuyn and the Third Way', Politics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 156-62.
Selected Presentations
Bruff, I. and Wickham, J. (2005) 'The Implications of New Forms of Immigration for the Organisation of Work, Citizenship, and Government Socio-Economic Strategies: Ireland Close Up'. Paper presented at 7th European Sociological Association conference, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, 9-12th September 2005.
Bruff, I. (2003) 'The Limitations of Institutional Political Economy and the Case for a Gramscian Approach'. Paper presented at 6th Annual Central and Northern England (CANE) conference in Politics and International Studies of the Political Studies Association Postgraduate Network, University of Birmingham, UK, 22nd November 2003.
Paul Haynes
PhD Sociology (Lancaster University) 2000; MA Continental Philosophy (University of Warwick) 1994; BA Philosophy (University of Hull) 1991.
Paul is now working on a project at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School (University of Oxford), applying cultural content marketing to social campaigns and developing new models of social innovation to Fair Trade.
Paul was a Postdoctoral Researcher based in the Institute for International Integration Studies. He worked on the project ‘Mobile Lives’ which evaluates work-related mobility – commuting, working-on-the-move, business travel and short term expatriation – in order to present empirical findings concerning the context and motivation for the development of more travel intensive industries, with particular emphasis on air travel and the socio-cultural trends emerging in Ireland.
He was also a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Policy Institute and Trinity College School of Business, researching public management and policy and the role of strategic decision making. The research, in partnership with Queens University, Belfast, examines themes such as inclusive decision making and new public management in the domains of urban renewal and health in both jurisdictions of the island of Ireland, using a complexity framework.
His research interests include post-structuralist social theory, networks, globalisation and complexity, technological change, mobility and social change, innovation and entrepreneurship.
More information about Paul can be found on the Skoll Centre website and he can be contacted via email Paul.haynes@sbs.ox.ac.uk.
Selected Publications
Medd, W., Byrne, D. and Haynes, P. (forthcoming) Policy Making and the Science of Complexity, North Holland: Elsevier.
Morlicchio, E., Pugliese, E. and Haynes, P. (2004) 'The Socio-spatial Configuration of Opportunity in Naples', Urbex Series 3, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
Morlicchio, E. and Haynes, P. (2004) 'The insignificance of weak ties and the uselessness of strong ties', Urbex Series 3, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
Haynes, P. (2004) Strategies in Best Practice: SME Internationalisation, Birmingham: Chamber of Commerce Publications.
Haynes, P., Mitra, J and Rana, B. (2003) Enterprise and Learning, Birmingham: University Press.
Haynes, P. (2002) 'Politics, Complexity and Post-structural Thought' in A. Finlayson and J. Valentine (Eds.) Poststructuralism and Politics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Gerry Boucher
PhD Sociology (Trinity College Dublin) 2001; MA Sociology (Temple University, USA); BA Political Science and Sociology (Trinity College Dublin).
Gerry left his position as a Research Fellow in the ERC in December 2004 to become a Lecturer in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast. While at Trinity, he worked on a number of EU and Irish government funded research projects as well as teaching as a part-time Lecturer. His main research interests include: globalisation; European studies; work and labour markets; immigration and integration and contemporary Irish society.
More information about Gerry can be found on his webpage at Queens. He can be contacted via email g.boucher@qub.ac.uk.
Selected Publications
The New World of Work: Labour Markets in Contemporary Ireland (2005) (eds) Boucher, G. and Collins, G. Dublin: Liffey Press.
'Training Cubs for the Celtic Tiger: The Volume Production of Technical Graduates in the Irish Educational System', Journal of Education and Work, Vol. 17, 4, December 2004 (with James Wickham).
'Land of Conditional Welcomes' (2004) in Corcoran, M. and Peillon, M. (eds) Place and Non-Place The Reconfiguration of Ireland, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, pp. 185-195.
'Tiers of Engagement by Universities in their Region’s Development', Regional Studies, Vol. 37, 9, pp. 887-897, December 2003 (with Cheryl Conway and Els Van der Meer).
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