Tom Hunt

Faculty of Social Sciences

Deputy Director

Tom.Hunt@sheffield.ac.uk
Profile

Tom is Deputy Director and Research Fellow at SPERI. He works closely with SPERI’s Co-Directors to develop and implement SPERI’s research strategy through his own research and in collaboration with SPERI’s research team.

Tom leads SPERI’s  research theme. His research focuses on trade unions and on understanding contemporary working conditions and their effects for individuals. He is a Co-Investigator in the . He is a Senior Fellow of .

Tom lead’s SPERI’s work to communicate political economy research findings to non-academic audiences; develop policy recommendations from political economy research, and build relationships with policymakers, journalists, and other relevant actors, who could be partners in our research or impact activities. Tom has co-ordinated large academic projects including the  (2017).

He has extensive experience of engaging with national and international policymakers, including cross-party parliamentarians; businesses; thinktanks; trades unions; and national media. Before joining SPERI Tom worked as a Parliamentary Researcher.

Research Interests

Tom’s research interests focus on understanding contemporary working conditions and how they change; trade unions, industrial relations and labour rights. He is interested in investigating ways in which workers, unions, states, industry and civil society can improve labour standards.

Tom has published a wide range of SPERI reports and policy briefs. His edited collection, The Coming Crisis (with Colin Hay), was published in 2018 in SPERI’s series ‘Building a Sustainable Political Economy’ with Palgrave Macmillan.

He has also worked with Colin Hay and Allister McGregor on research with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to develop a multilateral notion of inclusive growth.

Key Publications

Articles

  • Tom Hunt and Harry Pickard (2022) ‘Harder, better, faster, stronger? Work intensity and ‘good work’ in the United Kingdom’. Industrial Relations Journal ()
  • Genevieve LeBaron, Remi Edwards, Tom Hunt, Charline Sempéré and Penelope Kyritsis (2021) ‘The Ineffectiveness of CSR: Understanding Garment Company Commitments to Living Wages in Global Supply Chains’. New Political Economy ()
  • Colin Hay, Tom Hunt and J. Allister McGregor (2020) ‘Inclusive growth: the challenges of multidimensionality and multilateralism’. Cambridge Review of International Affairs () .
  • Tom Hunt and Liam Stanley (2019) ‘From ‘There is No Alternative’ to ‘Maybe There are Alternatives’: five Challenges to Economic Orthodoxy after the Crash’. The Political Quarterly ().

Books

  • Colin Hay and Tom Hunt (eds) (2018)  London: Palgrave Macmillan

Book chapters

  • Tom Hunt (2018), ‘The case for Universal Basic Infrastructure’, in C. Berry (ed.),  London: British Academy

Reports and Briefs

  • Tom Hunt (2022) . Unions 21 report.
  • Tom Hunt (2021) . Sustainable Care Paper 4, CIRCLE, 91Ö±²¥: University of 91Ö±²¥
  • Tom Hunt (2021) . Unions 21 report.
  • Remi Edwards, Tom Hunt and Genevieve LeBaron (2019) . SPERI & University of 91Ö±²¥.
  • Colin Hay, Tom Hunt and J. Allister McGregor (2019) . SPERI & University of 91Ö±²¥.
  • Colin Hay and Tom Hunt (2018) ‘Inclusive growth: the missing multilateral dimension’,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Working Paper for the OECD.
  • Tom Hunt and Sean McDaniel (2017) ‘’,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;SPERI report for GMB.
  • Craig Berry, Tom Hunt, Neil McInroy, Matthew Todd and Amy Whillans-Weldrake (2016) ‘’,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Joint report by SPERI and Centre for Local Economic Strategies.
  • Craig Berry, Tom Hunt, Scott Lavery and Will Vittery (2016) ‘U’,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;SPERI British Political Economy Brief No.24.
  • Craig Berry, Tom Hunt, Chris Kirkland Scott Lavery (2016) ‘’,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;SPERI British Political Economy Brief No.23.
  • Craig Berry, Andrew Gamble, Colin Hay, Tom Hunt and Anthony Payne (2016) ‘’,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;SPERI British Political Economy Brief No. 21.
  • Adam Barber and Tom Hunt (2016) ‘’,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;SPERI British Political Economy Brief No.20.
  • Craig Berry and Tom Hunt (2016) ‘’, Report for The Intergenerational Foundation.
  • Tom Hunt (2015) , SPERI British Political Economy Brief No.17.
  • Craig Berry, Tom Hunt and Laura White (2015) ‘’,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;SPERI British Political Economy Brief No.15.