Directors and associates
ProBE is led by co-directors from Westminster Business School (WBS) and the School of Architecture and Cities (A+C), and associate directors from the School of Social Sciences (SSS), who oversee the centre’s key research areas.
WBS
- Professor Linda Clarke – Emeritus Director
- Dr Fernando Duran-Palma – Director
- Dr Coralie Guedes – Research Associate
A+C
- Alastair Blyth – Director
- Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan – Director
- Professor Christine Wall – Emeritus Director
SSS
- Dr Dan Greenwood – Associate Director
- Dr Melahat Sahim-Dikmen – Associate Director
ProBE researchers
Find out more about our academic staff and up to date details of our research outputs.
Affiliates
There are a number of affiliates and visiting scholars involved with ProBE at the University of Westminster.
Internal affiliates
- Will McLean
- Dr Thoralf Dassler
- Dr Thanos Fragkandreas
- Dr Elisabeth Michielsens
- Dr Suzy Nelson
- Professor Marion Roberts, Emeritus
- Dr Melahat Sahin-Dikmen
- Dr Sylvia Snijders
- Ro Spanke
- Professor Fred Steward, Emeritus
External affiliates
- Dr Paul Chan, University of Delft
- Professor Janet Druker, former University of Westminster
- Dr Ian Fitzgerald, University of Northumbria
- Professor Valerie Francis, University of Melbourne
- Dr Hugh Goodacre, University College London
- Professor Joern Janssen, CLR, and former Fachhochschule Dortmund
- Dr Olivia Muñoz-Rojas, Paris
- Professor Vivian Price, University of California
Visiting Scholars
- Professor Kazuhiko Asami, for research comparing industrial relations in the UK and the Japanese construction industry (2016–2017)
- Professor John Calvert, from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (2015–2017)
- Richard Clarke, formerly of Birkbeck College, University of London (2014–present)
- Professor Janet Druker, whose research was titled Preserving trade union history: Union organisation in the Construction Industry (2010–2011)
- Dr Valerie Francis, from the University of Melbourne, Australia (2012–2013)
- Dr Kim Moody, for research on the American labour movement (2017–present)
- Michael Mulvey, for research on Irish buildings in post-war London (2015–present)
- Dr Olivia Munoz-Rojas, for RF on Leverhulme project and who acted as Co-Applicant on the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) proposal (2011–present)
Advisory Committee
ProBE has an Advisory Committee, drawn from its members and from long-standing research partners, key practitioners and experts who advise on its strategy and represent and liaise with the research users.
The advisory committee is formed of:
- Fran Bradshaw, Anne Thorne Architects
- Steve Craig, Unite the Union
- Andrew Eldred, Joint Industry Board for Electrical Contracting Industry
- Tim Fenn, Green Factory
- George Fuller, UCATT member
- Andrew Rabeneck, independent researcher
- Prof Fred Sherratt, University of Colorado
- Kevin Williamson, Unite
- Dr Tessa Wright, Queen Mary, University of London
Doctoral researchers
Our current doctoral researchers are:
- Coralie Guedes, PhD student
- Reasat Faisal, PhD student
- Mustafa Abedmousa, PhD student
Collaborations and networks
Westminster Business School (WBS) and the School of Architecture and Cities have a long history of work in this area, and as such enjoy a wide network of established research contacts and trusted relations with research partners expert in the area.
Long-standing, reliable and valued research partners exist in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden as well as in British universities; in particular, the University of Manchester, Northumbria University and King's College London. Research Institutes are affiliated to the centre and keen to contribute to funding bids.
ProBE is also closely linked to a number of networks, including:
- Britain at Work 1945-1990: A consortium of academics and practitioners based at the Bishopsgate Institute including Royal Holloway; the universities of Swansea, Westminster, and London Metropolitan; the Oral History Society; Independent Working Class Education; the Scottish Oral History Centre; and the South Wales Miners Library
- European Institute for Construction Labour Research (CLR): A network of 500+ members across Europe, which organises events and produces regular newsletters and book publications, based in Brussels. Linda Clarke is President and the Institute's British office is based at the University of Westminster
- British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA): Linda Clarke organises regular London seminars, as well as assisting in organising events for its Industrial Relations History Study Group. Their annual conference was hosted at the University of Westminster in 2014
- Construction History Society: Christine Wall is a board member, trustee and editor of the Construction History Journal
- Oral History Society: Christine Wall is a member of the editorial committee of the OHS’s official mouthpiece, the Oral History Journal
- London Hazards: Linda Clarke is a trustee and on the editorial board
- Greener Jobs Alliance: Linda Clarke is on the steering group