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Chris Grey is Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was previously a Professor at Cambridge University and Warwick University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). He originally studied Economics and Politics at Manchester University, where he also gained a PhD on the regulation of financial services.
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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 June 2022 English
One of the most widely discussed societal impacts of Covid, mentioned on p.121 of the latest edition of my book, has been the shift from working at work to ‘working …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 March 2022 English
In successive editions of my book since the second and including the latest, fifth, one, I have included the firm P&O in a long list of examples of what were …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 February 2022 English
Over eight years ago, in 2013, I wrote a post on this blog about the absurdity of a supposedly competitive market for electricity, and energy more generally. That absurdity was …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 April 2021 English
The growing scandal in the UK over corporate lobbing of government – which has implicated the former Prime Minister David Cameron as well as a former civil servant – is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 June 2020 English
I’ve recently read two extraordinary and, I suppose, largely forgotten novels, both published in the early 1940s, and both three-generational sagas set mainly in the Pittsburgh steel industry from the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 April 2020 English
This blog has been sadly neglected in recent years, as all my blogging time and energy have been taken up with my Brexit Blog. But the current coronavirus crisis prompts …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 May 2019 English
A House of Lords report this week has concluded that forensic science in England and Wales is “in crisis” and “has now reached breaking point”. This matters, hugely, because it …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 June 2018 English
The biggest organizational story in Britain at the moment – the abject chaos on the railways – is one which happens to affect me personally. I use one of the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 April 2018 English
The still ongoing Windrush scandal has now claimed the scalp of Home Secretary Amber Rudd, primarily for misleading Parliament by saying that there were no deportation targets when, in fact, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 March 2018 English
The still emerging scandal of the use of Facebook users’ data by Cambridge Analytica for political campaigning has numerous dimensions to it – political, technological, ethical and social. One particular …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 January 2018 English
Since the very early days of this blog, I have written several posts about the danger and damage done by public sector outsourcing and it’s also discussed in my book …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 July 2017 English
Almost a quarter of a century ago I published my first ever academic journal paper, an analysis of the career projects of accounting professionals (Grey, 1994). It enjoyed a brief …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 June 2017 English
The Grenfell tower fire, with its still rising death toll, not to mention the injuries and homelessness it has caused, is one of the most shocking disasters in Britain for …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 May 2017 English
Waking up today to the news of the despicable bomb attack in Manchester I felt, like all but a tiny few degenerates, a sense of sorrow and disgust which has …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 May 2017 English
In my previous post I mentioned the ‘mysteries’ of writing, and this week I have been reading a book about writing’s conjoined twin: reading. It is Daniel Gray’s Scribbles in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 May 2017 English
Just a short post today, to draw attention to my podcast on Social Science Bites. Social Science Bites features interviews with leading social scientists and covers a wide array of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 April 2017 English
In June 2014 I wrote a post on this blog suggesting that a new political landscape was emerging in which the primary cleavage was between ‘cosmopolitans’ and ‘locals’. These were …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 March 2017 English
There is story told by the writer Bill Bryson which has always appealed to me. He recounts how, when working as a journalist, he was commissioned to write an article …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 March 2017 English
This week the Adam Smith Institute (ASI), a hard right free market think tank, produced a report entitled ‘Lackademia: why do academics lean left?’ It claims – and treats as …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 February 2017 English
A long way behind the trend, I started using twitter a couple of weeks ago. The reason for this was to try to publicise my other blog (the Brexit blog) …