International Research Project: Public Dispute Resolution Agencies and Workplace Conflict in Anglo-American Countries (External organisation)

Description

Membership of an international research project examining changes to public dispute resolution agencies across Anglo-American countries. This project was launched with key scholars from Cornell ILR School and brought together leading scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, each responsible for analysing developments within their national systems and contributing to a comparative framework. As a member of the leading Irish research team, I played a key role in country-level analysis and the coordination and intellectual integration of the wider international project. This project created one of the first sustained comparative analyses of public dispute resolution agencies. For the international scholarly community, it generated a shared analytical framework; for dispute resolution agencies themselves, it offered reflective insights into how professional practice, innovation, and service delivery were evolving across jurisdictions.
The Irish case study from this project was published as “Leadership and Innovation by Professionals: The Changing Face of Public Conflict Resolution in Ireland” in a special issue of Industrial Relations Journal (2023), alongside parallel contributions from other national teams. The cumulation of the international project work was latter marked at the TRIAD 2024, in New York City, where I presented the Irish case alongside my international partners for a specially designed symposium that attracted both academics and conflict management practitioners.
This sustained programme of research also resulted in the publication of The Reconstruction of Workplace Conflict Resolution: The Road to the Workplace Relations Commission in Ireland (Routledge, September 2024). The book consolidates the detailed empirical research about the evolving nature of Ireland’s public dispute resolution agency, offering an authoritative account of institutional reconstruction and professionalisation in public conflict resolution.

Period	2018 → 2024
Held at	International Research Project: Public Dispute Resolution Agencies and Workplace Conflict in Anglo-American Countries
Degree of Recognition	International