Dr Douglas Martin
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Douglas has worked at the University of Central Lancashire since 2011 teaching in the area of human resource management. His research interests include industrial relations, trade unions and lean systems of work. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personel and Development, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is a member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association.
Douglas is the programme leader for the BA in Human Resource Management, and has a range of teaching responsibilities at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is currently Deputy Vice Chair of the BAHSS Ethics Panel. Douglas has published in Public Money and Management, the Industrial Relations Journal and New Technology, Work and Employment. He has also presented his work at several conferences including the International Labour Process Conference and the BUIRA Conference
Before completing his PhD, Douglas worked for around twenty years in the Civil Service where he was active in the trade union, mainly in the area of health and safety.
- Douglas has a PhD from Strathclyde University (2015): his research examined the impact of lean production in the UK Civil Service and the trade union response.
- Douglas has an MA in Medieval History and Scottish History from Glasgow University (1982) and an MSc in Human Resource Management from Stirling University (2007)
- Douglas also has a TUC Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health from Stow College in Glasgow (2005).
- Lean working
- Employee relations
- Public sector
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Higher Education Academy
- British Universities Industrial Relations Association
Douglas has researched the issue of lean working within the public sector and the trade union response looking specifically at the impact that lean systems has has on deskilling. Douglas is currently working with colleagues in Ostvold He is also currently active in researching how people return to the labour market. Douglas is researching how local authorities use multi-agency working for adult social work services.
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- Institute for Research into Organisations, Work and Employment
- Returners project - people returning to the labour market
- Multi-agency working in social work care
- 2011 - “Is lean production the solution or the problem? Work organizational change in the UK Civil Service”
- paper presented at 29th International Labour Process Conference, University of Leeds April 5 to 7
- 2011 - “Organizational Work Change in the United Kingdom Civil Service” paper presented to International Studies in Working Life Doctoral Network, Université d’Évry Val d’Essonne, Centre Pierre Naville, September 13 to 16;
- 2012 - “The challenge of Lean and the trade union response” paper presented to the British Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference, University of Bradford, June 28 to 30
- 2013 - “ “It’s been a prolonged period of misery, but I think it’s really intensified now”: the impact of lean production management systems on the UK Civil Service” paper presented to the British Industrial Relations Association Conference, University of Strathclyde, June 27 to 29
- 2014 - ““The “Big Box” scenario: standardisation and standard operating models in the UK Civil Service”, paper presented to the British Industrial Relations Association Conference, University of Westminster, June 25 to 27
- 2019 - discutant at the Tax Research Network Conference, University of Central Lancashire, September 9 to 11
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