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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, David Miles.

Peter Cressey

Presently 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. At present he is the Chair of the UK Work Organisation Network Board. He 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 as a Research Associate for seven years and as a work organisation consultant for five years.

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.

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.

Peter Totterdill

Peter Totterdill, UKWON Joint Chief Executive, has a background in local and regional economic development, and has been involved in the development and dissemination of new forms of work organisation since the early 1990s. He is also a Technical Director of ECOTEC Research and Consulting, and is a Visiting Professor at Kingston University.