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PROFESSOR NOEL WHITESIDE : CURRICULUM VITAE
(1) PERSONAL DETAILS
Full Name and Title: Professor Noel Whiteside
Department: Sociology University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
Current Appointment: Professor in Comparative Public Policy
Honorary posts
1998 - 2005 Conseil scientifique Maison des Sciences de L’Homme (Ange Guepin)
2001 - Zurich Financial Services Fellow
2001 - Advisory Board, Institute of Governance and Public Management (Warwick)
2002- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Visiting Academic Posts
1985 Australian Visiting Research Fellow Departments of History Universities of Sydney and Melbourne
Sept - Dec 1990 Visiting Research Fellow Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (CIRCIT), Melbourne
Oct - Dec.1994 Visiting Senior Research Scholar School of History, Philosophy and Politics Macquarie University, Sydney
February 1999 Visiting Professor (sciences sociales) Ecole Normale Superieur de Cachan Paris
October 1999 Marshall-Monnet Scholar in Residence European Union Center University of Wisconsin – Madison 2
Sept.-Dec. 2005 Visiting Scholar Columbia University at Reid Hall Paris Academic Qualifications:
1967.70 BA (Hons) Modern History and Politics (upper second) University of Liverpool
1976 PhD ‘The Dock Decasualisation Issue’ University of Liverpool
Previous Appointments (full time):
1973-77: Assistant Keeper, Modern Records Public Record Office
1977-78: Research Fellow, Centre for Social History University of Warwick
1978-89 Lecturer in Social Policy University of Bristol
1989-94 Senior Lecturer in Social Policy University of Bristol
1994-99 Reader in Public Policy University of Bristol
1999-2000 Reader in Social Policy University of Warwick
Appointments held (part-time)
1970-71: Tutor in British Government Department of Politics University of Liverpool
1977, 1978, Course tutor: 'War and Society' 1979 Open University Summer Schools
1982-83: Editor (half-time) on project on industrial relations records Public Record Office London 3
1982-90 Academic consultant Department of Employment (Records Management)
(2) TEACHING
Teaching Years 2001 - 8 (Warwick University)
Undergraduate
Length of course Number of students (contact hours) Lecture courses
Social Welfare in Britain 11 weeks (11 hours) 110 Comparative Social Policy 22 weeks (22 hours) 36
Tutorials/seminars
Society State and Welfare 11 weeks (11 hours) 30 (2 x 15) Comparative Social Policy 22 weeks (22 hours) 36 (3 x 12)
Postgraduate
Taught MA classes
Restructuring Welfare State 2 sessions (4 hours) 10 Critical Social Policy 5 sessions (10 hours) 10 (comparing welfare states)
Qualitative Research 2 sessions (4 hours) 50 Methods
Researching Society 2 sessions (4 hours) 30 n.b. The first two of the above named courses are required courses in the Department of Sociology’s MA in Social Research (specialism in Social Policy). Qualitative Research Methods is a required course for all MA Social Research students and Researching Society is a training course for all incoming PhD students.
I am currently developing a new interdisciplinary module (to be taught in collaboration with the department of Politics and International Studies) – Creating Social Europe. 4
Research Postgraduate Supervision
Individual Start date Qualification Actual (or Individual/Joint anticipated) supervision completion A* Oct. 1982 PhD June 1986 Single Bristol B Oct 1986 PhD Jan 1991 Joint UWE C Jan. 1988 PhD June 1995+ Single Bristol D* Oct. 1990 PhD June 1995 Single Bristol E Oct 1991 M.Phil. June1998+ Single Bristol F* Oct. 1993 PhD June 1998 Single Bristol G Oct 1993 PhD June 1998 Single Bristol H Oct. 1994 PhD Dec. 1999 Joint UWE I Oct. 2000 PhD (part time) Oct. 2005 Single Warwick J Oct. 2003 PhD Sept 2008 Joint Warwick
Number of successful research students since 1986 = 10
Number of unsuccessful research students since 1986 = 2 (theses never completed because the students encountered personal problems and withdrew)
I have also supervised visiting PhD students for one year at Bristol and at Warwick
Other Teaching
My Visiting Professorship at ENS Cachan (see Appointments held (visiting academic posts above) involved my teaching an elective course to fourth year students (rough equivalent to English MA / MSc taught postgraduate course).
* ESRC funded students, who completed on time (in two cases with one-year extensions approved by the ESRC) + Both these research students were elderly, self-funded, part-time postgraduates; both had a dependent relative suffering from severe sickness and associated personal problems. With the university’s permission, both suspended studies for extended periods: this explains the length of time taken to complete their theses. 5
July 2003: invited expert at the Georg-August-University, Gottingen Postgraduate Summer School: ‘The Future of the European Social Model’. In 2002 and 2003, I was an invited speaker at ESRC postgraduate summer schools for new doctoral students.
3) RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS:
Work in Progress
‘Creating Public Value: historical perspectives’ in J. Benington and M. Moore (eds), Public Value (Palgrave, forthcoming).
Welfare and the Politics of Capability (working title), (Elgar, forthcoming autumn 2009): co-author S. Constantine
Authored Books
The following list does not include work on the administrative histories of specific government departments, now forming part of the National Archive’s Current Guide, Part 1.
Casual Labour: the Unemployment Question and the Port Transport Industry, 1880- 1970, (Oxford University Press, 1985) pp. 324 Co-author, Gordon Phillips.
Bad Times: Unemployment in British Social and Political History (Faber & Faber, 1991) pp. 147
Developments in the British Welfare State, 1939-1951 (HMSO, 1992) pp.180 Co-authors, Andrew Land and Rodney Lowe.
Edited Books
Aux sources du chomage: une comparison interdisciplinaire France - Grande Bretagne (Editions Belin, Paris, 1994) pp. 467 Co-editors, Malcolm Mansfield, Robert Salais
Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France: the modernising state in the mid-twentieth century (Routledge, London, Jan 1998) pp. 295 Co-editor, Robert Salais
Pension Security in the 21st Century: redrawing the public-private divide (OUP, Oxford, autumn 2003) 6
Co-editor, Gordon Clark
Britain’s Pensions Crisis: history and policy (British Academy / Oxford University Press, 2006) Co-editors Hugh Pemberton, Pat Thane
Edited Works: Contributions (see also Work in Progress) Under my sole authorship, unless stated otherwise.
'Public policy and port labour reform', in S. Tolliday and J. Zeitlin (eds) Shop Floor Bargaining and the State (Cambridge University Press, 1985) pp.75-108.
'Social welfare and industrial relations, 1918-1939' in C.J.Wrigley (ed.) A History of British Industrial Relations Vol. II, 1914-1939, (Harvester, 1987) pp.211-242.
'The social consequences of unemployment', in A. Booth and S. Glynn (eds.) The Road to Full Employment, (Allen and Unwin, 1987), pp.17-31.
'The British population at war' in J.M. Turner (ed) Britain and the First World War, (Unwin Hyman 1988), pp.85-98.
'Concession, coercion or cooperation? State policy and industrial unrest in Britain during the first world war' in L. Haimson and G. Sapelli (eds) Strikes, Social Conflict and the First World War, (Annali, Feltrinelli Foundation, 1990/1991), pp. 107-123
(a)'Definir le chomage: traditions syndicales et politique nationale en Grande Bretagne' (b)'Introduction, troisieme partie: Politique' (c)'Introduction generale' (co-author, R. Salais) in M. Mansfield, R. Salais and N. Whiteside (eds), Aux sources du chomage, 1880- 1914 (Editions Belin, Paris, 1994), pp. 381-412; pp. 281-295; pp. 5-33
‘Aiming at consensus: the politics of the “social” and the “industrial” wage in Britain after the second world war’ in MIRE Comparing Social Welfare Systems in Europe, vol 1, Oxford Conference, ( Imprimerie nationale, 1995), pp. 509-535.
'Employment policy: a chronicle of decline?' in D. Gladstone (ed.), British Social Welfare, (UCL Press, 1995), pp.52-71.
'Prottegere il mestiere: l'organizzazione sindicale in Gran Bretagna prima della grande guerra' in M. Antonioli e L. Ganapini (eds) I sindacati occidentali dal'800 ad oggi in una prospettiva storica comparata (Saggiatore B. Mondadori, 1995), pp. 51-73
'Industrial relations and social welfare, 1945-1979' in C.J. Wrigley (ed.) A History of British Industrial Relations, vol. III, 1939-1979 (Edward Elgar, 1996), pp.107-128 7
‘Le syndicalisme docker en Grande Bretagne apres la seconde guerre mondiale’ in M. Pigenet (dir), Le syndicalisme docker depuis 1945 (Presse Universitaire de Rouen, 1997) pp.117-30.
'The politics of the 'social' and the 'industrial' wage, 1945-60' in H. Jones and M. Kandiah (eds), The Myth of Consensus? (Macmillan, 1997) pp. 120-139
'Le Welfare state brittanique: le produit d’une tradition liberale’ in P. Auvernon, P. Martin, P. Rozenblatt et M. Tallard (eds), L'Etat a l'epreuve du ‘social’ (Editions Syllepse, 1998), pp. 108-114.
‘Employment policy’ in N. Ellison and C. Pierson (eds.), Developments in British Social Policy (Macmillan, 1998) pp. 97-112
‘Les politiques economiques et les politiques industrielles en France et Grande Bretagne (1930-1960)’ in F. Guedj et S. Sirot (dir), Histoire sociale de l’Europe occidentale au XXeme siecle (Editions Seli Arslan, Paris, 1998) pp. 165-180.
(a) ‘Introduction’ (with R. Salais) (b)‘The state and the labour market:employment in the public sector’ in Whiteside and Salais (eds) Governance, Industry and Labour Markets (Routledge, 1998) pp. 5-38; pp. 373-402
‘Private agencies and public purposes’ in J. Le Grand and W. Bartlett (eds.) A Revolution in Social Policy: quasi-market reform in the 1990s (Polity Press, 1998), pp. 201-17
'Les bases multiples des syndicats' (with M. Dreyfus, S. Kott, M. Pigenet) in J.L. Robert, F. Boll, A. Prost (dir) L'invention des syndicalismes: le syndicalisme en Europe occidentale a la fin du XIXe siecle (Paris, Sorbonne, 1998), pp.269-85
‘L’organisation du travail et le developpement du syndicalisme dans les ports brittaniques’ in Guillon et Mencherini (dir) Dockers, de la Mediterranee a la Mer du Nord (UMR, TELEMME, 1999), pp. 63-75
'Towards a "modern" labour market?' in B. Conekin, F. Mort, C. Waters (eds), Moments of Modernity? Reconstructing Britain, 1945-64 (Rivers Oram Press 1999), pp.76-96
‘Private provision and public welfare’ in D. Gladstone (ed) Before Beveridge: Welfare before the Welfare State (IEA, 1999), pp. 26 – 43
‘La Charte de la Mutualite et la loi de 1911 en Grande Bretagne’ in M. Dreyfus, B. Gibaud et A. Gueslin (dir) Democratie, Solidarite et Mutualite: autour de la loi de 1898, (Editions Economica, Paris, 1999) pp. 208-220. 8
‘From full employment to flexibility: Britain and France , 1960-2000’ in Bo Strath (ed) After Full Employment: European discourses on work and flexibility (Peter Laing, Brussels, 2000) pp. 107-135
‘Accounting and Accountability: an historical case study of a public-private partnership’ in R. Rhodes (ed.) Transforming British Government vol 2 (Macmillan, 2000) pp. 167-182
(a) ‘Introduction’ (with Gordon Clark) (b) ‘Historical perspectives and the politics of pension reform’ in G.L. Clark and N. Whiteside (eds.) Pension Security in the 21st Century (OUP, 2003): pp. 1-21 & 21-42
‘L’Angleterre: la naissance d’une logique assurantielle’ in D. Assayag, F. Guedj et P. Toucas-Truyen (dirs), La sante en Europe: entre marche et solidarite, (L’Editions de l’Atelier, Paris, 2003) pp. 43-47
‘Chomage et inaptitude en Grande Bretagne de la fin du XIXe siecle aux annees trente’ in C.Omnes et S. Bruno (dirs), Les mains inutiles: inaptitude au travail et emploi en Europe, (Editions Belin, Paris, 2004), pp. 224-48
‘Security and the working life’ in R. Salais and R. Villeneuve (eds), Towards a European Politics of Capabilities, (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
‘Comparing welfare states: conventions, institutions and political frameworks in France and Britain since 1945’ in J-C Barbier et M-T Letablier (dirs), Politques Sociales: enjeux epistemologiques et methodologiques des comparaisons internationales ( Laing, Brussels, 2005) pp. 211-229
‘Private pensions and public policy: the public-private divide reappraised’ in G.L. Clark, A. Munnell and M. Orzag (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income (OUP, Oxford, 2006) pp. 684-702
‘Syndicalismes et l’Etat social’ (with M. Dreyfus, P. Pasture and E. Nijhof) in M. Pigenet, J-P Robert et P. Pasture (dirs), L’Apogee des syndicalismes en Europe occidentale: 1960-85, (Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2006) pp. 81-109
‘Estado y relaciones de trabajo en Gran Bretana. Un estudio de caso – el trabajo portuario’ in S. Castillo (et al.) Estados y relaciones de trabajo en la Europa del siglio XX, (Ediciones Cinca, 2007) pp. 187- 213
Academic Journal Articles (refereed journals) See also Work in Progress 9
'Welfare insurance and casual labour: a study of administrative intervention in industrial employment', Economic History Review, XXXII, Nov. 1979, pp.507-522.
'Unemployment and the public record', Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, no. 38, 1979, pp.57-59.
'Education and the state: the growth of central control', Journal of the Society of Archivists, Spring 1979, pp. 15-19.
'Welfare legislation and the unions during the First World War', Historical Journal, 23, 1980, pp.857-874.
'Industrial welfare and labour regulation in Britain at the time of the First World War', International Review of Social History, 25, 1980, pp.307-331.
'Welfare legislation and the unions after the First World War: a reply', Historical Journal, 25, 1982, pp. 443-446.
'Industrial relations and the public record', Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 47, 1983, pp.42-46.
'Central control and the approved societies: access to social support under the interwar health insurance scheme', Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin, 32, 1983, pp.28-31.
'Private agencies for public purposes: some new perspectives on policy making in health insurance', Journal of Social Policy, 12, 1983, pp.165-193.
'The National Health Insurance scheme revisited', Journal of Social Policy, 12, 1983, pp.525-529.
'Wages and welfare: industrial bargaining and union benefits before the first world war', Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 51 pt.III, 1986, pp.21-34.
'Counting the cost: sickness and disability among working people in an era of industrial recession', Economic History Review, XL, 1987, pp.228-246.
'Unemployment and health', Journal of Social Policy, 17, 1988, pp.177-194.
'Deconstructing unemployment: developments in Britain in the interwar years', Economic History Review, XLIV, Nov. 1991, pp. 665-682. Co-author: Dr. J. Gillespie. 10
'La protection du metier: l'organisation industrielle et les services des syndicats dans l'Angleterre de la fin du dix-neuvieme siecle', Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Institut de Recherches Marxistes, no. 51, 1993, pp. 29-51.
'The revolution that failed: public administration and labour policy in Britain, 1880- 1918', Jahrbuchs fur Europeanische Verwaltungsgeschichte, no 5, 1993, pp. 57-83.
'La recherche du consensus: politiques des revenus salariaux et sociaux dans la Grande Bretagne de l'apres guerre', Geneses: sciences sociales et histoire, 18, Jan. 1995, pp.47-67.
'Creating the welfare state, 1945-60' Journal of Social Policy 25, 1, 1996, pp. 83- 103
‘Regulating markets: the real costs of poly-centric administration under the National Health Insurance Scheme’, Public Administration, 75, 3, 1997, pp 467- 85
‘Comparing welfare states: social protection and industrial politics in France and Britain, 1930-60’, Journal of European Social Policy, 8, 2, 1998, pp 139-155 Co-author, R. Salais
‘In search of security: earnings-related pensions in Britain and Europe’, History and Policy, 2003, http://www.historyandpolicy.org/main/policy-paper-11.html 8 pp.
‘William Beveridge desde una perspectiva historica: una reinterpretacion del Informe Beveridge’ Sociologica del Trabajo, nueva epoca, num. 48, primavera de 2003, pp. 87-110
‘Une comparaison des systemes de protection sociale en Allemagne, en France et en Grande Bretagne’, Histoire et Societes, 6, 2003, pp. 22-41
‘Historical methods for comparing pension policies’, Cross National Research Papers: European Cross National Research and Policy, 7th series, ‘The Impact of Methodological Approaches to the Study of Welfare’, 2004, http:///www.xnat.org.uk/seminar2 pp. 21-30
‘Adapting private pensions to public purposes: historical perspectives on the politics of reform’, Journal of European Social Policy, 16, 1, (2006) pp. 43-54
‘Unemployment in comparative perspective’, International Review of Social History, 52 (2007) pp.35-56
Other Journal Articles
'Faction and Impeachment in the Reign of Charles II' Polichronicon, (Liverpool), 1972, pp.17-23. 11
'Unemployment and Health: a summary of recent research', Bulletin of Labour Market Research, (Canberra), 16, 1985, pp.10-14.
‘Private Agencies for Public Purposes’ Talking Politics, 10, 3, 1998, pp.162-65
‘The State We’re In’, The Financial Review, Sept 2003, pp. 43-5.
‘If this is pension reform, then it is back to the drawing board Mr Brown’, Parliamentary Brief, 10, 10 (2006) pp.18-21
‘Pension reform? Another raw deal for the poor old Brits’, Parliamentary Brief, 10, 11 (2006); pp. 22-3.
‘A Pensions Bill that does not do what it says on the tin’, Parliamentary Brief, 11, 5, (2007) pp.21-2
‘Asking the low paid to save? Are you mad?’ Parliamentary Brief, 11, 8, (2007) pp. 10-11
‘A winner for Brown? Boost the pension’ Parliamentary Brief, 11, 9, (2008)pp. 13-14
Departmental Working Papers
Industrial Organisation & the Nature of Work, CIRCIT Paper, 1990/4. pp. 29
Politics and Labour Markets: Constructing Unemployment in Twentieth Century Australia (ACIRRT Occasional Paper, University of Sydney, 1995) pp. 32
Commissioned Official Reports
'Unemployment and Health: an Evaluation' (Report for the Australian National Bureau of Labour Market Research, June 1985). pp. 20
Reviews of Academic Books: in the following journals: Times Higher Education Supplement Labour History Review Social History Newsletter Social History of Medicine Bulletin History Economic History Review Historical Studies in Industrial Relations Journal of Social Policy Public Administration Sociological Review Archives Prometheus 12
I act as referee for book manuscripts submitted to Oxford University Press
Other Academic Output:
Granada Schools Programme 'The National Health Service' (Broadcast on Feb 10 1994)
Interviews on Wiltshire Sound: Bristol Radio West: BBC local (Bristol) News.
Appearance on The Long View: Pensions Radio 4, 23 February 2006
Research Grants
Source of title of project durat Starting total names Other comments funds ion date value of other holders
Public Record Industrial 12 Sept. 1980 c. £8,000 none Half-time salary Office Relations List replacement
Leverhulme ‘Wages and 12 Sept. 1982 c. none Full-time salary Trust Welfare’ £18,000 replacement
Australian Travelling 4 March c. £2,500 none Travel and Studies Fellowship 1985 subsistence costs Centre, London
ESRC ‘The Welfare 24 Oct. 1987 c. Dr R. Research assistant Research State in Britain, £31,000 Lowe Award 1939-51’
CIRCIT ‘Technology and 4 Sept. 1990 c. none Travel, salary and (Melbourne) Employment’ £10,000 subsistence
Macquarie Visiting 1 Sept 1994 c. £3,000 none Collaborative University, Fellowship research Sydney
ESRC ‘Towards a 12 Oct 1994 c. none Full-time salary Research Modern Labour £31,000 replacement Award Market?’ Evaluation: Good
British same project 6 Oct 1995 c. £850 none Travel funds for Council British Paris participants 13
Leverhulme same project 6 Oct 1996 c. £3,000 none Book translation Trust costs
ESRC: ‘Private Agencies 12 Oct. 1996 c. none Full-time salary Whitehall for Public £32,000 replacement Programme Purposes’ Evaluation: Outstanding
ESRC: Future ‘Governance, 36 June 2000 c. none 18 months salary of Governance Regulation and £85,000 replacement Programme Social Security:’ Evaluation: Outstanding Zurich Pension policy Financial development in 24 Nov 2000 £7,000 None Research expenses Services the EU p.a. and study leave
EC: FP5 EUROCAP 36 c. Jan 2003 £48,000 Total 12 months (total team = Research Assistant project 10 budget = partners 1 million Euros) EC: FP6 CAPRIGHT 48 Jan 2006 c. Total 12 months £60,000 team = Research (total 22 Assistant + budget = partners hosting a summer 4 million school for doctoral Euros) students ESRC seminar ‘Coping with 24 Oct. 2007 £18,266 Profs Series of 5 series Uncertainty: Colin international European Labour Crouch seminars Markets’’ & Simon Deakin EC: FP7 GUSTO 36 April 2009 c. £ Total International 25,000 team = meetings and 12 seminars partners
(4) ADMINISTRATION
University of Bristol: University/Faculty Committee membership
1988-90 Faculty Planning Committee 14
1987-94 University Working Party on the Recruitment of Mature Students
1989-95 Faculty Graduate Studies Committee:
1993-95 Faculty Research Committee:
1997- Faculty Progress Committee
1997- Faculty Undergraduate Committee
University of Bristol: Departmental responsibilities (School for Policy Studies)
1983-89 Departmental undergraduate admissions officer
1984-95 Departmental careers liaison officer
1985-95 Departmental health and safety officer
1989-95 Departmental graduate studies officer (includes admission of research students)
1993-95 Research committee:
1982-84:) Departmental (SPS) undergraduate examinations officer 1989-93:) 1997- 99:)
1997 - 99 Departmental progress officer
I also initiated and brought to fruition a two-year degree programme in Social Policy for graduates from (the then) City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
University of Warwick: departmental responsibilities (School of Health and Social Studies and Department of Sociology)
1999- 2000 SHSS: departmental examinations officer (undergraduate)
1999- 2000 SHSS: departmental head of undergraduate studies
1999- 2000 SHSS: member of departmental Research Committee
2000 - 2003 IGPM: member of IGPM steering committee
2002 - 2005 Sociology: convenor of one MA programme 15
2002 - 2005 Sociology: Director of Academic Studies
2006 – 2007 Chair of Sociology