Professor Susan Corby
Job title
Professor
Department
Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour
Qualifications
BA, MA, PGDip Personnel Management, PhD
Biography:
Susan Corby is Professor in Employment Relations, previously full-time, she now works one and a half days a week. She came to Greenwich in 1998 as a senior lecturer, having been at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was previously Senior Industrial Relations Officer at the Royal College of Midwives and Assistant General Secretary of the Association of First Division Civil Servants (FDA), while at the start of her career she was a research officer for Industrial Relations Services.
Responsibilities within the university:
PhD supervision
Programme leader - Postgraduate certificate in Individual Employment Dispute Resolution for conciliators in the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas)
Current research:
Employment Tribunals in the UK and institutions for adjudicating employment right in Europe, South Africa and the USA. Equality in the UK Public Services
External activities:
Arbitrator: Advisory, Conciliation & Arbitration Service
Recent publications:
Corby, S. and Latreille, P. (2012) ‘Employment Tribunals and the Civil Courts: Isomorphism Exemplified’ Industrial Law Journal, vol 41, no.4, 387-406.
Corby, S. and Latreille, P. (2012) ‘Tripartite Adjudication: an endangered species’, Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 43, no. 2 94-109.
Corby, S. and Stanworth, C. (2009) ‘A price worth paying? Women and work – choice, constraint or satisficing’ Equal Opportunities International, vol. 28, no. 2, 162-178.
Woodhams, C. and Corby, S. (2007) ‘Then and Now: disability legislation and employers’ practices’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 45, no.3, 556-580.
Edited books:
Corby, S. and Symon, G. (eds) (2011) Working for the State: employment relations in the public services, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Corby, S., Palmer, S. and Lindop, E. (eds) (2009) Rethinking Reward Basingstoke: Palgrave.
