Editor-in-Chief, Human Relations

Professor Paul Edwards

Paul Edwards became Editor-in-Chief of Human Relations in January 2012, after being an Associate Editor for the Journal since 2006.

Paul is Professor of Employment Relations at Birmingham Business School, UK and was formerly at Warwick University where he directed the Industrial Relations Research Unit and held several Associate Dean positions. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has served as the Chair of the Academy's Social Science Group, is a Senior Fellow of the UK's Advanced Institute of Management Research and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. His research interests include employment relations at workplace level and new forms of work organisation, the personnel policies and practices of multinational companies and employment relations in small firms. His publications include (with Judy Wajcman) The Politics of Working Life(OUP, 2005) and he edited Industrial Relations (1995 and 2003) and co-edited (with Marek Korczynski and Randy Hodson) Social Theory at Work (2006).