Duncan Gallie (Official Fellow) has been working on the development = of the new British Skills Survey 2006, together with Alan Felstead, Francis Gr= een and Ying Zhou

Duncan Gallie Annual= Report 2005 - 2006

Duncan Gallie<= /span> (Official Fellow) has been working on the development of the new British Sk= ills Survey 2006, together with Alan Felstead, Franc= is Green and Ying Zhou. It is funded by the ESRC and a range of Government departments. It builds on his earlier work for the Social Change and Econom= ic Life Initiative and the Employment in Britain survey, together with= two later Skills Surveys. It will provide a unique data series on skill develop= ment and the quality of working life in Britain from the mid-1980s to= the present. The fieldwork for the survey is currently underway and is due to be completed in the early autumn.

He has= been Nuffield co-ordinator for the new European Network of Excellence – EQUALSOC (Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion) and co-ordinator for the network of the thematic Research Group on ‘Employment and the Labour Market’. As part of this, he has been involved in preparing a book with European colleagues on changes in the qua= lity of work over the last decade. His own research h= as focused primarily on a comparative study of change in employees’ cont= rol over their jobs – an aspect of work which has been found to be strong= ly related to protection from work stress and broader psychological ill-health= .

He has= been a member of the EU’s Advisory Group on ‘Social Sciences and Humanities in the European Research Area’ which provides DG Research with advice on the themes and organisation of the Sixth Framework Programme. He has also been actively involved in commenting upon proposals for the new Seventh Framework Programme.

He ser= ved as a member of Council and as Vice-President of the British Academy. He has been appointed Foreign Secretary of the British Academy with effect from July 2006.

Publications

‘Work Pressure in Europe 1996-2001: Trends and Determinants’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 43:3, 351-75, 2005.

(with S= erge Paugam) ‘L’expérience du chômage : elements pour une comparaison européenne’, Revue Suisse de Sociologie, 30:3, 441-60, 2004.

‘Entrapment in Unemployment: Motivat= ional Deficiency or Structural Constraint?’ in Anthony F. Heath, John Ermisch and Duncan Gallie (eds.), Understanding Social Change. <= st1:City w:st=3D"on">Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2= 005, pp. 125-49.

(edited with Anthony F. Heath and J= ohn Ermisch) Understanding Social Change. Oxfor= d: Oxford University Press, 2005.