Dr Joyce Mamode

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Management School

Research Associate in Work & Employment

Joyce Mamode.
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J.Mamode@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Joyce Mamode
Management School
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Profile

Prior to and whilst completing my PhD (part-time), I had a senior role within Transport for London (TfL), working as the Head of Assisted Transport, responsible for developing the TfL Assisted Transport Strategy and Roadmap. Before joining TfL, I was senior transport researcher for the Transport and General Workers’ Union (now Unite) where I was responsible for writing union policy and campaigning documents covering the docks and waterways, aviation, road based logistics, and bus and taxi membership groups.

Qualifications
  • PhD Employment Relations - University of Warwick
  • MSc Occupational Psychology - Birkbeck College, University of London
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Research interests

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.

Research group

Centre for Decent Work (CDW)

Grants

British Sociological Association Conference Bursary Award 2023