Duncan Gallie: Annual Report 2001-2002

Duncan Gallie (Official Fellow) continued to work on the social consequences of poverty, unemployment and precarious work in the countries of the European Union. Together with Serge Paugam, he was involved in drawing up and analysing a comparative survey across the EU countries, funded by DG Employment and Social Affairs, which allows for a range of comparisons over time with previous EU-wide surveys. This will give a clearer picture of trends in subjective poverty and experiences of the quality of work. He has continued to co-ordinate for the EU (DG Research) a cluster of research projects on unemployment, welfare and work with a view to assessing the mutual implications of their results, drawing the practical lessons about the organization of comparative research involving different European research teams and considering the policy implications of the research results. One aspect of this work was the creation of a website (UWWCLUS), designed by Anton Verstraete, which provides information about the different projects and facilitates access to working papers. The work of the cluster will conclude with a workshop in Brussels bringing together researchers and EU policy makers. He completed work, with Francis Green and Alan Felstead, on a new survey to examine trends in skills in Britain (the Skills Survey). This was funded by the Department for Education and Skills and is a component of the broader SKOPE research programme on skills in Britain. The survey involves a representative national sample of over 4,000 individuals and has been designed to provide data that can be compared with surveys carried out in the mid-1980s and in the early and mid-1990s. The fieldwork was conducted by the National Centre for Social Research between February and June 2001 and a first report on the results (together with a number of working papers) has now been published. He served as a member of the Advisory Committee of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MISOC) and of the Advisory Committee of the ESRC's Future of Work Initiative. He has been an adviser to DG Research on the development of the European Research Area with respect to the social sciences.

Publications

(with Alan Felstead and Francis Green) 'Employer Policies and Organizational Commitment in Britain 1992-97', Journal of Management Studies, 38, 2001.

(with Alan Felstead and Francis Green) Work Skills in Britain 1986-2001. Nottingham: DfES Publications, 2002.