
I am Professor of Human Resource Management and Head of the Work and Employment Relations Division at the University of Leeds.
Background
After reading History at the University of Liverpool, I gained an MSc and PhD from the Industrial Relations Department of the London School of Economics. I began my academic career as a lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Kent in 2001, moving to Leeds for the first time as lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in 2003. I joined the University of Warwick as Associate Professor in 2007 and subsequently moved to the University of York as Senior Lecturer then Reader in Human Resource Management. In 2014 I joined Loughborough University as Professor of Human Resource Management before returning to Leeds in September 2016. I became Head of the Work and Employment Relations Division in February 2017.
Research interests
- Job quality
- Well-being at work
- HR and people analytics
Research articles
Tomlinson, J., Valizade, D., Muzio, D., Charlwood, A. and Aulakh, S. (2019) ‘Privileges and penalties in the legal profession: an intersectional analysis of career progression’ British Journal of Sociology, 70 (3): 1043 – 1066. (A on ABDC List).