Professor Jennifer Tomlinson
Current Positions held:
Professor of Gender and Employment Relations,
Leeds University Business School,
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
Email: j.tomlinson@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 113 343 4482
Co-Director: Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC)
Editorial Posts:
Editor: Work, Employment and Society
Associate Editor: Gender, Work and Organization
Previous Employment:
Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, Leeds University Business School, University of
Leeds (2008-2012)
Lecturer in Employment Relations, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
(2005-2008)
Lecturer in Sociology, School of Sociology, University of Manchester (2004-2005)
ESRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of
Leeds (2003-2004)
Education:
ESRC Funded Doctoral Research Studentship, School of Sociology and Social Policy,
University of Leeds (2000-2003). PhD awarded November 2003.
MA Sociology, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds. Award: Distinction
BA (Hons) Arts and Social Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University. Award: 2:1
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Administrative Posts and Academic Leadership:
Co-director of the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (2012- current role)
Research and Innovation Committee (2012 – current role)
REF Complex Cases Committee (2012 – current role)
Faculty Equality and Diversity Champion (2011- current role)
Faculty Strategy Group (2010-2011)
Director of MA Human Resource Management and MA Diversity Management (2008-2011)
Director of the BA in Human Resource Management (2007)
Editorial Work and Peer Review:
I am currently an Editor of Work, Employment and Society, serving a four year term Jan 2011 to
Dec 2014
I am also an Associate Editor for the journal Gender, Work and Organization, following my
work on a special issue for the journal, which is titled Gender, Diversity and Inclusion in the
Professions and Professional Organizations
I have reviewed for numerous leading journals in management, employment relations and
sociology. These journals include: Applied Psychology: An International Review; British Journal of
Sociology; British Journal of Management, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences; Community,
Work and Family; Equal Opportunities International; Gender, Work and Organization; Human
Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource
Management; Policy and Politics; Public Policy and Administration; Social Policy and Society; The
Sociological Review; Work, Employment and Society; Women Studies International Forum; and Women
in Management Review.
Teaching and Doctoral Supervision
I manage and teach on a range of modules, including:
1. Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspective runs at Masters level and final
year undergraduate level
2. Diversity Management runs at Masters level and final year undergraduate level
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3. Core Human Resource Management at Masters level
4. International HRM for the German Graduate School in Heilbronn
5. HRM and DM Dissertation modules LUBS 5350
6. Research Methods at Masters level
Doctoral Supervision
I have supervised to completion one PhD student and have two students due to complete in 2013.
I currently supervise five students across a range of employment relations, gender and equality
and diversity topics.
I am particularly interested in research proposals focusing on gender, management and
professional careers, part-time work, women returners, flexible working arrangements and
reconciliation of work and private life, in a range of contexts and countries.
Publications
Journal articles
Durbin and Tomlinson (forthcoming 2014) Female part-time managers: career prospects, role
models and mentors. Gender, Work and Organization.
Tomlinson, J., Muzio, D., Sommerlad, H., Webley, L. and Duff, L. (2013) Structure, agency and
the career strategies of white women and BME individuals in the legal profession. Human
Relations. 66(2) 245–269
Stuart, M., Martinez Lucio, M, and Tomlinson, J. (2013) Women and the modernisation of
British trade unions: Meanings and dimensions of modernisation and the challenge of change.
Journal of Industrial Relations. 55(1): 38–59
Grugulis, I. Stuart, M., Forde, C., Kirkpatrick, I. Mackenzie, R. and Tomlison, J. (2012)
‘Editorial: Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society’: different voices, same
language’, Work, Employment and Society. 26(1): 5-9. 2012
Stuart, M., Grugulis, I., Forde, C., Kirkpatrick, I. MacKenzie, R. and Tomlinson, J. (2011)
Editorial: ‘The more things change… Towards twenty-five years of Work, Employment and
Society. Work, Employment and Society, 25(2): 197-201
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Muzio, D. and Tomlinson, J. (2012) Researching Gender, Inclusion and Diversity in
Contemporary Professions and Professional Organizations. Gender, Work and Organization.
19(5): 455-466.
Tomlinson, J. (2011) Gender Equality and the State: A review of recent EU developments
Special Issue: Bringing the State Back in? The State and Human Resource Management,
International Journal of Human Resource Management. 22(8): 3755-3744.
Durbin, S. and Tomlinson, J. (2010) Female Part-time Managers: networks and career mobility.
Work, Employment and Society. 24(4): 621-640.
Tomlinson, J. and Durbin, S. (2010) Female part-time managers: work-life balance, aspirations
and career mobility. Special Issue: Gendered Employment, Equal Opportunities International.
29(3): 255-270.
Gardiner, J. and Tomlinson, J. (2009) Organizational approaches to flexible working:
perspectives of equality and diversity managers in the UK. Equal Opportunities International,
28, 8.
Tomlinson, J., Olsen, W. and Purdam, K. (2009) “Women Returners and Potential Returners:
Employment Profiles and Labour Market Opportunities – A Case Study of the UK”, European
Sociological Review, 24, 2, 1-15.
Tomlinson, J. (2008) Causes and consequences of the divergent working-time patterns of
employed mothers in the UK and the US: developing a comparative analysis, Gender Issues, 25,
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Tomlinson, J. (2007) Female Part-time Workers' Experiences of Occupational Mobility in the
UK Service Industry, Women in Management Review, 2(4): 305-318.
Tomlinson, J. (2007) 'Employment Regulation, Welfare and Gender Regimes: a comparative
analysis of women’s working-time patterns and work-life balance in the UK and the US.'
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18(3): 401-415
Tomlinson, J. (2006) 'Routes to part-time management in service sector organizations:
implications for women's skills, flexibility and progression.' Gender, Work and Organization,
13(6): 585-605.
Tomlinson, J. (2006) 'Women's work-life balance trajectories: reformulating choice and
constraint in transitions through part-time work across the life-course.' Symposium: Critical
perspectives on careers and family friendly policies. British Journal of Guidance and
Counselling, 34(3): 365-382.
Tomlinson, J. (2006) 'Part-time occupational mobility in the service industries: regulation, work
commitment and occupational closure.' The Sociological Review, 54(1): 66-86.
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Tomlinson, J. (2005) 'Women returners' attitudes towards trade unions in the UK: a consideration
of the distinction between full- and part-timers.' Industrial Relations Journal, 36(5): 402-418.
Tomlinson, J. (2004) 'Perceptions and negotiations of the 'business case' for flexible careers and
the integration of part-time work.' Women in Management Review, 19(8): 413-420.
Guest Editor of Special Issues in peer reviewed journals
Muzio, D. and Tomlinson, J. (2012) ‘Gender, Diversity and Inclusion in Professions and
Professional Organizations. Gender, Work and Organization. 19(5)
Research Monographs
Tomlinson, J., Olsen, W., Neff, D. and Purdam, K. (2005) Examining the Potential for Women
Returners to Work in Areas of High Occupational Gender Segregation. Department for Trade
and Industry Publications, Nov 2005, pp 1-106. https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-manscw:75229
Sommerlad, H. Webley, L, Duff, L. Muzio, D. and Tomlinson, J. (2010) Diversity in the legal
profession in England and Wales: A qualitative study of barriers and individual
choices. London: Legal Services Board. pp 1-83.
http://www.legalservicesboard.org.uk/what_we_do/Research/Publications/pdf/lsb_diversity_in_the_legal
_profession_final_rev.pdf
Stuart, M., Martinez Lucio, M., Tomlinson, J. and Perrett, R. (2010) The Union Modernisation
Fund – Round Two: Final Evaluation Report. Department for Business Innovation and Skills
Employment Relations Research Series, No. 111. pp 1-98, Dept for Business, Innovation and Skills:
London, URN 10/1084. http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/u/101084-umf-round-2-evaluation-report.pdf
Reports
Forde, C, Tomlinson, J, Holgate, J. and Stuart, M. (2012) Women in Transport and the Economic
Crisis. London: International Transport Federation.
Stuart, M. and Tomlinson, J. (2009) NUT organizing and Casework. Report to the National
Union of Teachers.
Tomlinson, J. (2004) Reconciling work and Family Life: Central Issues for Women Returners in
the 21st Century. Report for the Women Returners' Network.
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Invited Book Reviews
Gallie, D. ed (2008) Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work reviewed for Contemporary
Sociology, Nov, 2008
Ackroyd, S. Batt, R., Thompson, P., and Tolbert P.S. eds (2005) The Handbook of Work and
Organization reviewed in Sociology, 2006, 40, 5, 980-982
Book Reviews
Crompton, R. (2006) ‘Employment and the Family’ reviewed in Community Work and Family,
2007, 11, 1, 125-128
Wirth, L. (2001) Breaking through the Glass Ceiling reviewed in Gender, Work and
Organization, 2006 13, 5, 495-497
Hakim, L. (2002) Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities reviewed in
Feminist Theory, 2005, 6, 105-107.
Conference Organization:
Over the past six years I have organised various academic events and conferences, both at Leeds
and in other locations in the UK and Europe. These activities range from hosting an International
conference at Leeds, generating £95,000 in conference fees to smaller ESRC funded seminars
and events.
1. ‘25 Years of Work Employment and Society’ Anniversary Event, British Library, Nov 2012,
BSA event co-organised by editors Stuart, Grugulis, Ford, Kirkpatrick, MacKenzie and
Tomlinson
2. ‘Fairness and Voice’ ERSC Seminar, part of the ESRC ‘Fairness at Work’ seminar series,
November 2011, with Mark Stuart, University of Leeds and Miguel Martinez-Lucio, University
of Manchester
3. International Labour Process Conference. Host and Co-organizer, March 2011, with Daniel
Muzio and Steve Vincent, University of Leeds
4. ‘Equality and diversity in management, professions and leadership’ stream at the 10th
International Interdisciplinary Gender, Work and Organization Conference, June 2010 with
Daniel Muzio, University of Leeds
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5. ‘Conceptualising Contemporary Professions’ ESRC seminar series event ‘Diversity, inclusion
and representativeness: challenges for the professions’ Sept 2010, with Daniel Muzio, University
of Leeds
6. ‘Transformations in welfare to work’ conference. CERIC & School of Sociology and Social
Policy September 2008 with Kirk Mann and Mark Stuart, University of Leeds
7. ‘Gendering the Knowledge Economy’ session at the International Sociological Association
(ISA) World Forum of Sociology’s ‘Economy and Society’ stream July 2008, with Sue Durbin.
University of West of England
8. ‘The Knowledge Economy’ stream at the 9th International Interdisciplinary conference:
Gender, Work and Organization, June 2008 with Dr Susan Durbin, University of West of
England
Funding and research grants:
1. Tomlinson, J. (PI), Cooper, R. and Stuart, M. (Co-I) (2013) Worldwide Universities Network:
Fund for International Research Collaboration. Forming a Worldwide Flexible Careers Network.
(£15,000)
2. Tomlinson, J. (PI) (2012) University of Sydney Visiting Scholar Programme. ($6800 AUS)
3. Tomlinson J. (PI) (2011) Worldwide Universities Network: Researcher Mobility Programme
(£2,200)
4. Stuart, M., Forde, C., Holgate, J, and Tomlinson, J. (Co-I) (2012) The impact of the economic
crisis on women in transport International Transport Federation (£23, 910)
5. Stuart, M., Martinez Lucio, M. and Tomlinson, J. (Co-I) Union Modernisation Fund:
Evaluation of Round 2. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (£32,000)
6. Tomlinson, J. (PI) and Stuart, M. (2010) Casework and Organising in the NUT. National
Union of Teachers (£13,200)
7. Sommerlad, H. Webley, L, Duff, L. Muzio, D. and Tomlinson, J. (Co-I) (2010) Diversity in
the legal profession in England and Wales, funded by the Legal Services Board (£46,000)
8. Stuart, M. Martinez-Lucio, M. and Tomlinson, J. (Co-I) (2010) Union Modernisation Fund.
Funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. (£40,000)
9. Muzio, D, Falconbridge, J., Tomlinson, J. (CO-I) (2009) ESRC Seminar Series:
7onceptualising Contemporary Professions’ (£14,000)
10. Gold, J., Ford, J., Sommerlad, H., Tomlinson, J. (Co-I)(2008) The Business Case for
Diversity. Funded by Yorkshire Forward and Learning Skills Council. (£450,000)
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11. Stuart, M., Tomlinson, J. (Co-I), Charlwood A. and Perrett R. (2008) Modern Union
Representatives: Case Studies Research’, Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform, funded by CBI/TUC/BERR, (£12,805)
12. Tomlinson, J., (PI) Olsen, W., Neff, D. and Purdam, K. (2007) Examining the Potential for
women returners to work in areas of high occupational gender segregation, Department for Trade
and Industry and Women and Equality Unit. (£25,000)
13. Tomlinson, J. (PI) (2003) ESRC post-doctoral research scholarship on women and part-time
work in international context. (£26,000)
14. Tomlinson, J. (PI) ESRC doctoral research scholarship (circa £45,000)
Enterprise and Knowledge Transfer
1. Diversity in the Legal Profession in England and Wales for the Legal Services Board.
This report provided qualitative data to supplement quantitative professional data on the career
opportunities, retention and segregation of women and minority ethnic lawyers in the legal profession in
England and Wales. Following the launch of the report in London and subsequent invited presentations
and conference papers, this report has attracted attention and comment in the Guardian by journalist
Crispin Passmore ‘The case for diversity: The profession’s white male legacy persists’ The Guardian 13th
October 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/oct/13/diversity-legal-services-board-research and in
professional press including coverage in The Lawyer, Legal Week and Law Society Gazette.
Our findings, and the LSB’s subsequent consultation, have led the LSB to issue statutory guidance to
require compulsory diversity monitoring via the professional bodies for solicitors, barristers and legal
executives, meaning that all law firms and barristers chambers in England and Wales will now have to
monitor the diversity of their workforce as against a broad range of diversity criteria. They will be
required to provide this information to the relevant professional bodies periodically. The Legal Services
Board (as oversight regulator for legal services) reserves the right to require the frontline legal profession
regulators to remedy diversity problems within firms and chambers, where they persist over time. There
are now a range of initiatives being taken by firms and chambers so as to improve the diversity profile of
their staff. This has the potential to change the demographic make-up of the legal profession over time.
2. Research on part-time managers in the UK and Fair Work Australia.
This small scale research in the UK has informed policy debate in Australia. Following the right to
request flexible working for working parents in the UK, this research explored the working conditions,
and career opportunities for women working at managerial level part-time. Published in journals in 2009
and 2010, Fair Work Australia (the equivalent of the Equality and Human Rights Commission) has used
my research to inform their response to the right to request legislation that has recently been implemented
in Australia.
3. Women and Work Commission for Department for Trade and Industry and the Women and Equality
Unit.
This report titled ‘Examining the potential for women returners to work in areas of high occupational
gender segregation’ was funded by the Department for Trade and Industry and the Women and Equality
Unit. The tended specification stated that the findings from the research presented in the report would
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feed into the Women and Work Commission final report, commissioned by Baroness Prosser which was
to be presented to the Prime Minister in Feb 2006. The research and resultant report has been used
extensively in the final report and subsequently by other leading academics. The research has also been
published in the European Sociological Review in 2009. I was lead author of both the report and the
subsequent journal article. I presented the findings of this work at the launch event of the Final Report
with over 100 senior policy makers, civil servants, journalists and academics in attendance.
4. West Yorkshire Investment Plan: Diversity in the Economy and Yorkshire Forward.
The West Yorkshire Investment Plan was part a series of funding initiatives around training and skill
formation funded by the regional development agency, Yorkshire Forward. The £465,000 project I was
involved in focused on improving the equality and diversity training in leadership and management
programmes across the sub-region. The project had an ambitious aim of engaging with 250 training
providers in the sub-region, a target reached by the projects’ conclusion.
5. Trade union case study work BERR.
The findings have contributed towards a new code of practice on facilities time for trade union
representatives. The research, therefore, provides evidence of considerable policy impact. The findings
were published by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) in December 2009. The
new code is to be launched at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills on 8th December 2009
and the team was invited to contribute to a panel discussion on the day.
6. Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Invitation to participate in the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) ‘Round Table on
Promoting Equality and Diversity through Business School Curricula’ following my presentation in
Madrid on the MA in Diversity Management at Leeds University Business School as a case study of good
practice. The relationship was strengthened with the EHRC through the development of the MA
Programme in Diversity Management and through the ESRC seminar on diversity, inclusion and
representativeness: challenges for the professions where Robin Lynn, Senior Policy Advisor at the EHRC
presented the EHRC initiative ‘Equally Professional’.
7. European Commission and EABIS funded scoping exercise and Symposium on ‘Managing diversity in
business schools’ ESADE Business School, Madrid, March 2008.
I was invited to speak about the creation of the MA in Diversity Management at Leeds University
Business School as an example of good practice in mainstreaming equality and diversity curricula into
Business Schools. Travel expenses, accommodation and subsistence costs were covered by the European
Commission for this and another two events held in Brussels both in December 2008 to form and
establish a European Diversity network.
Selected invited presentations and international conference papers:
Tomlinson, J. Bessa, I. and Stuart, M. (2013) Evaluating the impact of the recession on flexible
working in Britain: Evidence from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey. Flexible
Careers Symposium, Community, Work and Family Conference, Sydney, July 2013
Tomlinson, J (2013) Female part-time managers in the UK: work-life balance, career prospects,
role models and mentors, Community, Work and Family, Sydney, July 2013
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Tomlinson, J (2013) Female part-time managers in the UK: work-life balance, career prospects,
role models and mentors, SASE, Milan June 2013
Webley, L, Muzio, D. and Tomlinson (2013) Access to a Career in the Legal Profession in
England and Wales: Race, Class and the Role of Educational Background, Conference of the
American Bar Foundation, Chicago, May 2013
Muzio, D and Tomlinson, J. (2012) Structure, agency and the career strategies of women and
BME individuals in the legal profession in England and Wales. Academy of Management,
Boston, August
Tomlinson, J. (2012) Gender equality and reconciliation of work and private life policies in the
European Union: A review of recent developments. Work and Family Network Inaugural
Conference. New York, June
Tomlinson, J. (2012) Panel Session: How the National Policy Context Matters for Employer
Practices and Gender Equity. Work and Family Network Inaugural Conference, New York, June
Tomlinson, J. and Muzio, D. (2012) Structure, agency and the career strategies of women and
BME individuals in the legal profession in England and Wales. EWERC, Manchester, May
Tomlinson, J. (2012) Equality bargaining in the UK: representation, mobilization,
litigation. Symposium on Equality Bargaining, University of Sydney, March
Tomlinson, J. (2012) Structure, agency and the career strategies of women and BME individuals
in the legal profession in England and Wales. Monash Business School, Melbourne, March
Tomlinson, J. (2012) Female part-time managers: aspirations, career mobility, networks, role
models and mentors. Women and Work Group International Women’s Day, University of
Sydney, March
Tomlinson, J. (2012) Structure, agency and the career strategies of women and BME individuals
in the legal profession in England and Wales. Work and Organization Studies Seminar,
University of Sydney, March
Tomlinson, J. and Muzio (2012) Structure, agency and the career strategies of women and BME
individuals in the legal profession in England and Wales. British Sociological Association,
Leeds, April
Tomlinson, J. and Muzio, D. (2011) Agency and the career strategies of women and BME
individuals in the legal profession in England and Wales. Law and Society Association
Conference, San Francisco
Sommerlad, H. Webley, L, Duff, L. Muzio, D. and Tomlinson, J. (2010) Diversity in the legal
profession in England and Wales: Launch of the report: London, University of Westminster
Tomlinson, J. and Durbin, S. (2010) Female part-time managers: aspirations, networks and
career mobility. European Academy of Management, Rome, Italy
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Tomlinson, J. (2010) Female part-time managers: aspirations, networks and career
mobility. Middlesex Business School
Tomlinson, J. (2009) Women working part-time in the UK: aspirations and career mobility.
Catalyst, Wall Street, New York
Tomlinson, J. and Gardiner, J. (2009) Organizational approaches to flexible working:
perspectives of equality and diversity managers in the UK. Equal Opportunities International
Conference Istanbul
Tomlinson, J. and Durbin, S. (2008) ‘Female Part-time Managers in the Knowledge-based
Economy: networks and career mobility.’ International Sociological Association. Economy and
Society Stream, Barcelona, Sept 2008
Tomlinson, J. (2007) 'Causes and consequences of divergent working-time patterns of employed
mothers in the UK and the US', Gender and Work, Regular Session, Work and Family
Integration in an International Comparative Context, 2007 American Sociological Association
Conference August 11-14, New York City
Tomlinson, J. and Gardiner, J. (2007) Flexible working through an equality and diversity lens
IIRA European Regional Congress, Manchester
Tomlinson. J. (2006) 'Employment regulation, welfare-states and gender regimes: a comparative
analysis of part-time work' American Sociological Association Conference, Montreal
Tomlinson, J. (2006) 'Female part-time workers' experiences of occupational mobility in the UK
service industry' European Academy of Management Conference, Oslo
Tomlinson, J., Olsen, W., Neff, D. and Purdam, K. (2006) 'Examining the Potential for Women
Returners to Work in areas of High Occupational Gender Segregation' Launch of the report:
London: Department for Trade and Industry Conference Centre
Tomlinson, J., Olsen, W., Neff, D. and Purdam, K. (2005) 'Examining the Potential for Women
Returners to Work in areas of High Occupational Gender Segregation' CTEE Conference on
Training, Employability and Employment, Prato, Italy
Tomlinson, J. (2005) 'Women's attitudes towards trade unions in the UK: a consideration of the
distinction between full- and part-time workers in five service sector firms.' Gender, Work and
Organization 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Keele
Tomlinson, J (2004) Transitions in and out of part-time work: the relationship between
preference and outcome in women returners' labour market transitions and work-life trajectories
Work-life Balance Across the Life-course, Edinburgh
Tomlinson, J (2004) 'Mothers' employment and work-life balance in the UK: structure and
constraint in transitions in and out of part-time work. American Sociological Association
Conference, San Francisco
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Tomlinson, J. (2004) 'Theorising the full-time/part-time distinction: the Part-time Workers'
Directive, informal workplace practices and strategies of closure.' Work, Employment and
Society Conference, Manchester
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