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Professor Ian Cunningham is a faculty member at the University of Strathclyde, holding the position of Professor of Employment Relations in the Department of Human Resource Management. His work focuses on employment relations in voluntary and public sectors, with a particular emphasis on austerity, social care, and disability management.
- Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Professor Cunningham’s research explores voluntary sector employment dynamics, employee involvement, sickness absence, and public service delivery under austerity. He collaborates internationally with scholars from Canada, Australia, and the United States, including Professor Donna Baines on precarious work studies and Dr. Colin Lindsay on public service HRM modules.
His recent publications address strategic HRM in social care, benchmarking non-profit work conditions, and multi-actor engagement. These works align with keywords like Human Resource Management, Employment Relations, and Social Care, with subfields spanning Strategic HRM, Austerity, and Policy Analysis.
- Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
He supervises four PhD students and has been involved in 31 projects, including 7 funded research initiatives with international comparative aspects. His ongoing work examines employment conditions in voluntary and private care providers in Scotland.
Professor Cunningham contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through research on fair work and social contracts. His collaborations with the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS) and Scottish Government-funded studies highlight his practical and policy-oriented impact.
