Dr Joyce Mamode

My research interests are focused on contemporary challenges for trade unions, as key organisations providing collective employee voice. I have a particular interest in forms of voice and influence that take place outside of formal collective bargaining. My research initially focused on how diversity and difference can best be represented within collective employee voice through the trade union equality representative role. I am currently working on a research project with Professor Kirsty Newsome and Dr Safak Tartanoglu Bennett in the Centre for Decent Work that is examining the representational challenges trade unions face in the parcel delivery sector, where forms of precarity and self-employment sit alongside traditional and highly unionised forms of employment, sometimes even within a single enterprise. I continue to develop my own research agenda in particular exploring how trade union collectivism might expand beyond its traditional boundaries.