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Board

UKWON's Board

Joint Chief Executives: Campbell Ford and Peter Totterdill

Directors: Peter Cressey, Richard Ennals, Rosemary Exton, Michael Gold, Denis Gregory, David Miles, Gillian Shapiro.

Peter Cressey

Peter is the Chair of the UK Work Organisation Network Board and a Reader in Sociology and Human Resource Management at Bath University. Has published extensively on European employment relations, and social dialogue and the learning organisation.  Peter is active in research in four connected fields: employee partnership, work-life balance, workplace learning and European employment relations.

Richard Ennals

Richard Ennals is a Board member of UKWON, and was founding chairman. He is a professor at Kingston Business School, Kingston University, where he leads the Centre for Working Life Research. He has visiting professorial posts in Norway, Sweden and Lithuania, is chairman of the Council for Education in World Citizenship, and a board member of the UK National Commission for UNESCO.

Rosemary Exton

Rosemary Exton's career spans thirty years as a clinician, regional manager and trade union representative in the National Health Service. She is currently a Director and Trustee of the Royal College of Midwives. She has worked with UKWON in diverse roles since 2001 and brings particular expertise in employee and trade union involvement and participation.

Campbell Ford

Campbell Ford is UKWON's Joint Chief Executive and Company Secretary, and has a particular interest in quality of working life. Campbell was formerly Head of Strategy at ACAS and was Assistant Director of the Work Research Unit from 1993-1998. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Kingston University.

Michael Gold

Michael Gold's career has spanned journalism, local government and universities. Having worked as a journalist covering industrial relations for almost ten years, he moved to the University of Westminster and then to Royal Holloway University of London, where he is now senior lecturer in employee relations. He was also a councillor in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames for eight years.

Denis Gregory

Denis teaches Labour Relations and Economics at Ruskin. He has published in the areas of industrial relations, work organisation and industrial economics. Denis regularly provides analytical material, technical advice and training to front-line negotiators in the motor industry and utilities sectors and has acted as a trainer and consultant to assist both unions and management in developing partnership agreements and practices.

David Miles

Professor David Miles has recently retired as Pro Vice-Chancellor (External Affairs) at Kingston University, where he had spent the major part of his career as Dean of the Faculty of Business.  David is currently Chair of the Institute of Direct Marketing Trust and a trustee of the Citizenship Foundation.

Gillian Shapiro

Gillian is Managing Director of Shapiro Consulting Ltd. which she established in 1998.  It focuses on supporting organisations across public and private sectors to increase the diversity of their workforce and leadership teams and create more inclusive work environments. Gillian's focus is on positioning diversity as a strategic strength - not a programme. Previously, at the Centre for Research in Innovation Management at the University of Brighton, Gillian led research in the UK and across Europe on diversity, employee engagement and innovation. 

Peter Totterdill

UKWON Joint Chief Executive Peter Totterdill has a background in local and regional economic development but has been involved in researching, developing and dissemination of new forms of work organisation since the early 1990s. He is also a Visiting Professor at Kingston University. A passionate advocate of organisational practices that combine high performance with high quality of working life, Peter works with enterprises, trade unions, public agencies and universities in research, consultancy and policy advocacy to help transform workplaces. Peter is also an international speaker and has published several articles and chapters on these issues.