Research Institute for Social Sciences

Having completed both a BA (2007) and MRes (2008) at Keele University, Andy Hodder is currently completing a PhD, looking at the method of trade union organising within the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS). The research aims to determine the extent to which the PCS has adopted the organising agenda and evaluate its impact on membership and levels of activism, during a period of Civil Service modernization. The research is jointly funded by Keele University and the PCS.

Andy is also a member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association.

• Hodder, A. and French, S. (2010) ‘Resisting public sector cuts: the key issue of union strategy’ in Federation News, Volume 10, Number 2, Summer 2010 Edition.

• Hodder, A. (2012) ‘Review of New Trade Union Activism: Class Consciousness or Social Identity? by Sian Moore, in Labor History, Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 149-150.

 Conference Papers:

• French, S. Daniels, G. Hodder, A. and McIntosh, S. (2009) ‘Public Sector Restructuring and Workload Intensification: Civil Servants’ Workload and Work-Life Balance', Paper presented at 59^th Annual British Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference, Cardiff University, 2^nd - 4^th July 2009.

• French, S. and Hodder, A. (2010) ‘Civil Service Modernization’, Paper presented at British Universities Industrial Relations Association Public Sector Study Group Seminar: Resisting Reform: Public sector workers against the state, University of Wolverhampton, 24^th March 2010.

• Hodder, A. (2009) ‘Trade Union Organising in the Public and Commercial Services Union’, Paper presented at 5^th Annual Keele University Research Symposium, Keele University, 13^th May 2009.

• Hodder, A. (2010) ‘Trade union responses to Civil Service restructuring: Organising in the Public and Commercial Services union’, Paper presented at 6^th Annual Keele University Research Symposium, Keele University, 5^th May 2010.

• Hodder, A. (2011) ‘Resisting public sector cuts – trade union responses to Civil Service modernization’, Paper presented at Developing the social sciences: A postgraduate research conference, Keele University, 18^th March 2011.

• Hodder, A. (2012a) ‘Young and unionised? Young workers and trade unions in the UK’, Paper presented at Generating Knowledge: Postgraduate Research Symposium, Keele University, 13^th March 2012.

• Hodder, A. (2012b) ‘Young workers and trade unions in the UK’, Paper presented at ESRC Seminar on Young Workers and Trade Unions, University of Manchester,

16th March 2012.

• Hodder, A. and French, S. (2009) ‘Union organising in a UK University’, Paper presented at Developing Theoretical Approaches in Labour Geography, University of Liverpool 11^th-12^th June 2009.

• Hodder, A. and French, S. (2010) ‘Organising in a UK University: Academics as trade unionists, or trade unionists as academics?’ Paper presented at 60^th Annual British Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference, Manchester University, 1^st -3^rd July 2010.