Professor Paul Latreille
Chair in Management, Director of Teaching Quality and Enhancement and Acting Head of Management Division
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Paul joined the Management School in January 2013 as Chair in Management. An economist by training, he gained both his BSc and PhD from the University of Warwick and subsequently worked at Swansea University for more than 20 years, latterly as Professor of Economics. He holds a visiting position at Westminster Business School’s Centre for Employment Research, is a Research Fellow of the IZA, Bonn, an Associate of the (formerly Higher Education Academy (HEA)) Economics Network and a Member of the Learning and Performance Institute. He is currently also a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, an editorial board member for Work, Employment and Society, Vice President (Europe) of the International Employment Relations Association, a member of the Professional Mediators’ Association advisory group, and was recently appointed academic advisor for the 2013 Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications.
Teaching Interests
Paul is an innovative, passionate and reflective teacher and educator. An inaugural recipient of a Swansea Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002, he has since won the e-Learning and Student Nominated categories in the national Economics Network’s teaching awards (in 2007 and 2008 respectively), having previously received a commendation in the remaining category (Outstanding Teaching) in 2003.
His philosophy is to stimulate learners’ curiosity and interest in the subject and to equip them to undertake critical intellectual enquiry for themselves, both within the confines of the classroom and beyond. Adopting a constructivist orientation, he is an advocate of learning and teaching that is both interactive and collaborative and that engages learners as partners. Crucially, he seeks to ensure students can see the practical applications of theoretical ideas and are exposed to teaching which is – to use Griffiths’ 2004 taxonomy – research-informed, research-based, research-led and research-oriented.
Keen to support others in developing their teaching practice, Paul has recently been appointed as the School's Director of Teaching Quality and Enhancement. In this capacity he will draw on experience from his previous job where he was founding Director of the Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT), responsible for enhancing the student experience through shaping institutional learning and teaching strategy and policy, sharing and promoting good practice, sponsoring and promoting pedagogic research, and raising the profile and prestige of teaching across the university.
Paul has led and contributed to HEA workshops/seminars on various issues, and also to several HEA-supported/sponsored projects, the most recent focusing on inclusivity in relation to disability. He has published on learning related issues and written a number of practice-based case studies for the Economics Network, for whom (with Steve Greenlaw from Mary Washington University) he recently edited the chapter on ‘Creative uses of in-class technology’ for the Network’s Handbook for Economics Lecturers.
He has been external examiner on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at various UK universities including Queen’s University, Belfast and the University of Warwick.
Research Interests
Paul’s research comprises several, sometimes interconnected strands crossing disciplinary boundaries between labour economics, HRM, employment relations and employment law. His main area of expertise concerns individual workplace conflict and its resolution. A particular focus has been on Employment Tribunals (ETs), including the factors associated with settlement and pre-hearing resolution, the role of representation, outcomes at hearings and the consequences for claimants of bringing cases. A recent ESRC project with Susan Corby from Greenwich University looked at the role of lay/non-legal members and included a unique survey of both judges and lay members at both the ET and its appellate counterpart.
During 2008-9 Paul was the ESRC Visiting Research Fellow at Acas, working on a series of projects around conflict at work and from which developed a further strand exploring the role of workplace mediation and alternative dispute resolution in addressing such conflict. An ongoing ESRC-funded seminar series with Richard Saundry from UCLan brings together academics, policymakers and practitioners to examine these issues in greater depth and from a variety of perspectives.
Other areas of research interest include the relationships between disability and work; occupational health and safety; vocational training; self-employment/entrepreneurship; and economic inactivity. He has published extensively on these issues in a range of international business and economics journals. However, the applied and policy-relevant nature of his research has provided opportunities to engage with policymakers and practitioners, and Paul has led and/or been involved in projects for various external clients including the European Commission, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Ministry of Justice, the Low Pay Commission, Acas, the TUC and Welsh Government.
PhD Supervision
As a new member of staff, Paul is not currently supervising any PhD students, but would be interested in doing so in relation to any of his research interests or related areas. Students wishing to explore research that draws on a variety of disciplinary perspectives are very welcome, as are those wanting to undertake pedagogical research.
Selected Recent Publications
Jones, M.K., Latreille, P.L., Sloane, P.J. and Staneva, A.V. (forthcoming). Work Related Health in Europe: Are Older Workers More at Risk? Social Science and Medicine.
Dawson, C., Henley, A. and Latreille, P.L. (forthcoming). Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter? Regional Studies.
Urwin, P., Buscha, F. and Latreille, P.L. (forthcoming). Representation in UK Employment Tribunals: Analysis of the 2003 and 2008 Surveys of Employment Tribunal Applications (SETA). British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Jones, M.K., Jones, R.J., Latreille, P.L., Murphy, P.D. and Sloane, P.J. (2013). A Regional Analysis of Flows into and out of the UK National Minimum Wage”, Applied Economics. 45(21), pp. 3074–3087.
Corby, S. and Latreille, P.L. (2012). Employment and the Civil Courts: Isomorphism Exemplified. Industrial Law Journal, 41(4), pp. 387-406.
Urwin, P., Latreille, P. and Karuk, V. (2012). Quantitative Evidence in the Evaluation of ADR: The Case of Judicial Mediation in Employment Tribunals. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(3), pp. 567-589.