New Frontiers and Trajectories in Labour-Management Relations

Jonathan Lavelle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Work and Employment Studies, Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick. He is a former IRCHSS Post-doctoral fellow, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, and Marie Curie Scholar. His main research interests are in the field of international and comparative employment relations and human resource management with a particular interest in trade union recognition and avoidance, employee voice, living wage, and precarious work. Lavelle has published in leading international peer reviewed journals, as well as books and book chapters.

Tony Dobbins is Professor of Work and Employment Relations at University of Birmingham, UK. He researches employment relations, employee voice and democracy at work, better work, living wages and low pay, sociology of work, flexible working, and labour markets. He is a former Parliamentary Academic Fellow in the UK Parliament, and former British Universities Industrial Relations Association president. Dobbins is Visiting Professor at the University of Malta and University of Limerick, Ireland.

Dionne Pohler is the David and Alexandra Lipsky Professor of Dispute Resolution at the Cornell University ILR School Department of Global Labor and Work, and a research fellow at the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives located at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research is on conflict and dispute resolution, co-operative governance, rural issues, public policy, unions, labour/employment laws, and HR practices. She edited the Labor and Employment Relations Association annual research volume, Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment (2020) and co-edited Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada (2023).

Tony Dundon is Professor of HRM and Employment Relations in the Department of Work and Employment Studies, Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS); a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA); and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD). His research is on employee voice, trade unions, and work and technology. He is Visiting Professor at the Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester.