Professor Peter Turnbull
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Current positions
Professor of Management
University of Bristol Business School
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Research interests
Professor Turnbull's current research projects are:
- the working time and wellbeing of British police inspectors;
- low cost competition and Human Resource Management in the civil aviation industry;
- decent work in global supply chains;
- single European skies, technological change and a ‘just safety culture’ in air traffic control;
- an ‘impact assessment’ of EU port reform;
- fair pricing in the EU haulage market.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
A study about the contribution of work and employment professional associations to Management disciplines
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
This research idea emanated from relevant
discussions that have taken place among
executive members involved during the
Business school’s stewardship of the
British Universities Industrial Association
(BUIRA). As
stewards, we have been interested in…Dates
01/05/2025
Activists in the academy: the challenges of emancipatory partisanship in the neo-liberal business school
Role
Co-Investigator
Dates
01/06/2020
Trade Union Organisation and Workers’ Rights in Global Production and Supply Networks
Principal Investigator
Description
As capital ‘goes global’, trade unions have sought to build new international organisations to better represent their members, especially as the old industry-based international trade union federations no longer ‘map…Dates
15/06/2016 to 31/07/2016
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
05/07/2024Employment systems in the twenty-first century
British Journal of Industrial Relations
The HIAL storm
New Technology, Work and Employment
The Value of Industrial Relations Research(ers): Activism Inside and Outside the UK Academy.
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Introduction to a Special Issue: Social Europe
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow
European Journal of Industrial Relations
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