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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
Other Appointments :
2009–present
Member of Scientific Advisory Board: Nordforsk
Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme: Welfare Research
2002–present
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
2001–present
Zurich Financial Services Fellow
1998 –2005
Conseil scientifique
Maison des Sciences de L’Homme (Ange Guepin)
Visiting Academic Posts:
Sept. –Feb. 2005
Visiting Scholar
Columbia University at Reid Hall
Paris
October 1999
Marshall-Monnet Scholar in Residence
European Union Center
University of Wisconsin – Madison
February 1999
Visiting Professor (sciences sociales)
Ecole Normale Superieur de Cachan
Paris
Oct. –Dec. 1994
Visiting Senior Research Scholar
School of History, Philosophy and Politics
Macquarie University, Sydney
Sept.–Dec. 1990
Visiting Research Fellow
Centre for International Research on Communication and
Information Technologies (CIRCIT), Melbourne
1985
Australian Visiting Research Fellow
Departments of History
Universities of Sydney and Melbourne
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Academic Qualifications:
1976
PhD ‘The Dock Decasualisation Issue’
University of Liverpool
Previous Appointments (full time):
1999–2000
Reader in Social Policy
University of Warwick
1994–99
Reader in Public Policy
University of Bristol
1989–94
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
University of Bristol
1978–89
Lecturer in Social Policy
University of Bristol
1977–78
Research Fellow,
Centre for Social History
University of Warwick
Previous Appointments (part-time):
1982–90
Academic consultant
Department of Employment (Records Management)
1982–83
Editor (half-time) on project on industrial relations records
Public Record Office
London
1979
Open University Summer Schools
1977, 1978
Course tutor: 'War and Society'
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(2) POSTGRADUATE TEACHING (RESEARCH)
RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION
Individual
Start date
Qualification
Actual (or
anticipated)
completion
Individual/Joint
supervision
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
K
Oct. 2006
PhD
June 2010
Joint Warwick
L
Oct. 2007
PhD
?June 2011
Single Warwick
M
Oct. 2010
PhD (part-time)
Single Warwick
I have also supervised visiting PhD students for one year at Bristol and at Warwick.
OTHER POSTGRADUATE TEACHING
University of Warwick Masters and Doctoral Training Programmes:
Restructuring the Welfare State: European experiences – 10-week taught module;
Researching Society – session on statistical indicators;
Research Process and Research Design – session on archives and their evaluation.
My Visiting post 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).
I have also taught on doctoral summer schools at the Georg-August-University, Gottingen
(2003): at Sciences Po (Paris) Espanet (2005) at Nordforsk doctoral summer schools:
universities of Southern Denmark and Stockholm (2010 and 2011). And as an invited
speaker at ESRC postgraduate summer schools for new doctoral students (2002: 2003).
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3) RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS:
Work in Progress
Transforming European Employment Policy: labour market transitions and the promotion of capability
co-editors R. Rogowski, R. Salais and N. Whiteside (to be published by Elgar in 2011)
‘Reforming labour markets: Germany and Britain compared’
‘Capability, public services and social welfare’
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, 18801970, (Oxford University Press, 1985), 324 pp.
Co-author: Gordon Phillips
Bad Times: Unemployment in British Social and Political History (Faber & Faber, 1991),
147 pp.
Developments in the British Welfare State, 1939-1951 (HMSO, 1992), 180 pp.
Co-authors: Andrew Land and Rodney Lowe
Edited Books
Aux sources du chomage: une comparison interdisciplinaire France - Grande Bretagne
(Editions Belin, Paris, 1994), 467 pp.
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), 295 pp.
Co-editor: Robert Salais
Pension Security in the 21st Century: redrawing the public-private divide (OUP, Oxford,
autumn 2003)
Co-editor: Gordon Clark
Britain’s Pensions Crisis: history and policy (British Academy / Oxford University Press,
2006)
Co-editors: Hugh Pemberton, Pat Thane
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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
‘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
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'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
‘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
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‘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
‘Constructing unemployment: Britain and France in historical perspective’ in T. Riis and
M. Hansen (eds.) Poverty: its degrees, its causes and its relief (Solivegus – Verlag, Kiel, 2008),
pp. 103–127
‘La proteccion social en Gran Bretana … el caso del seguro sanitario’ in S. Castillo
(coord) La Prevision Social en la Historia (Siglio, 2009), pp. 519–53
‘L’assurance sociale en Grande Bretagne 1900-1950’ in Michel Dreyfus (ed.) Les assurances
sociales en Europe (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009) pp. 127–58
‘Creating public value’ in J. Benington and M. Moore (eds), Public Value (Palgrave,
forthcoming)
Academic Journal Articles (refereed journals). See also Work in Progress
'Welfare insurance and casual labour: a study of administrative intervention in industrial
employment', Economic History Review, XXXII, Nov. 1979, pp. 507–522
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'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
'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
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'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/papers/policy-paper-11.html .
‘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
‘The promotion of capabilities in Sweden: a case study of the contraction of the
shipbuilding industry in Gothenburg.’ International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 29,
11/12, pp. 587–99
Co-author: Steven Gascoigne.
Other Journal Articles
'Faction and Impeachment in the Reign of Charles II' Polichronicon, (Liverpool), 1972, pp.
17–23
'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
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‘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, 29 pp.
Politics and Labour Markets: Constructing Unemployment in Twentieth Century Australia (ACIRRT
Occasional Paper, University of Sydney, 1995), 32 pp.
Commissioned Official Reports
'Unemployment and Health: an Evaluation' (Report for the Australian National Bureau of
Labour Market Research, June 1985), 20 pp.
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
I act as referee for book manuscripts submitted to Oxford University Press.
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Other Academic Output:
Granada Schools Programme 'The National Health Service' (Broadcast on 10 Feb. 1994)
Interviews on Wiltshire Sound: Bristol Radio West: BBC local (Bristol) News
Appearance on The Long View: Pensions Radio 4, 23 Feb. 2006 and Woman’s Hour Feb.
2008
Research Grants
Source of funds
title of project
duration
Public Record
Office
Industrial
Relations List
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Leverhulme
Trust
‘Wages and
Welfare’
Australian
Studies Centre,
London
Starting date
total value
names of
other
holders
Other comments
Sept. 1980
c. £8,000
none
Half-time salary
replacement
12
Sept. 1982
c. £18,000
none
Full-time salary
replacement
Travelling
Fellowship
4
March 1985
c. £2,500
none
Travel and
subsistence costs
ESRC
Research
Award
‘The Welfare
State in Britain,
1939-51’
24
Oct. 1987
c. £31,000
Dr R.
Lowe
Research assistant
CIRCIT
(Melbourne)
‘Technology and
Employment’
4
Sept. 1990
c. £10,000
none
Travel, salary and
subsistence
Macquarie
University,
Sydney
Visiting
Fellowship
1
Sept 1994
c. £3,000
none
Collaborative
research
ESRC
Research
Award
‘Towards a
Modern Labour
Market?’
12
Oct 1994
c. £31,000
none
Full-time salary
replacement
Evaluation: Good
British Council
Paris
same project
6
Oct 1995
c. £850
none
Travel funds for
British participants
Leverhulme
Trust
same project
6
Oct 1996
c. £3,000
none
Book translation
costs
ESRC:
Whitehall
Programme
‘Private
Agencies for
Public Purposes’
12
Oct. 1996
c. £32,000
none
Full-time salary
replacement
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Evaluation:
Outstanding
ESRC: Future
of Governance
Programme
‘Governance,
Regulation and
Social Security:’
36
June 2000
c. £85,000
Zurich
Financial
Services
Pension policy
development in
the EU
24
EC: FP5
EUROCAP
36
EC: FP6
CAPRIGHT
48
ESRC seminar
series
‘Coping with
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Uncertainty:
European
Labour Markets’’
Oct. 2007
£18,266
EC: FP7
GUSTO
36
April 2009
c.
£105,000
Zurich
Financial
Services
‘Towards a
savings-oriented
society’
4
May 2010
c. £34,000
none
18 months salary
replacement
Evaluation:
Outstanding
Nov 2000
Jan 2003
Jan 2006
£7,000
p.a.
c. £48,000
(total
project
budget =
1 million
Euros)
c. £60,000
(total
budget =
4 million
Euros)
None
Research expenses
and study leave
Total
team =
10
partners
12 months
Research Assistant
Total
team =
22
partners
12 months
Research
Assistant +
hosting a summer
school for doctoral
students
Series of 5
international
seminars
Profs
Colin
Crouch
& Simon
Deakin
Total
team =
12
partners
B.Casey
International
meetings and
seminars
Research reports
on pension saving
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(4) ADMINISTRATION
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
2002–2005
Sociology: Director of Academic Studies
2006–2007
Chair of Sociology