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Helen Collins

Liverpool Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

An HRM professional with several years experience in academia as well as on HRM and OD projects in the public and private sector. Experience of managing and implementing EU bids and programmes, for instance and Objective 2 funded Equaliser project that increased opportunity for young people considered to be At Risk Of Disengagement (AROD).

Recent projects have focused on raising educational aspiration and outcome for Roma. Funded by the MHCLG the REAP project is a joint project between ourselves at LJMU and a community partner, Granby Toxteth Development Trust. REAP (Roma Educational Aspiration Project) is working alongside the LREN (Liverpool Roma Employability Network) project to address long held discrimination in the labour market that prevents Roma from reaching their potential. Evaluation of the impact of REAP led to further funding from MHCLG.

Languages

French

Report

Chadwick S, Jolliffe P, Collins H. 2024. Liverpool GTRSB Education Moving Together Liverpool GTRSB - Education Moving Together Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Harrison P. Roma: living and working in the City of Liverpool in LJMU Innovation and Practice

Collins H, Jolliffe P. Pocket Guide to life in Great Britain

Collins DH, Jolliffe P, COMPAS . Newcomers Guide to life in the UK

Thesis/Dissertation

Collins H. 2024. The confluence of two rivers: the impact of social capital on the experience of work precariousness Cronshaw S, Jones R. Public Url

Journal article

Potts J, Collins H, Barry S. 2024. ‘Difficult to Divulge’: the Impact of Organisational Silence Around the Menopause Work, Employment and Society, :1-12 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Sarcol E, Coutinho I, Maguire E, Collins H, Jolliffe P. 2024. Exploring Women’s Education and Employment Opportunities in India, Syria, and the Philippines The Qualitative Report, 29 :116-140 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Callaghan D, Collins H. 2023. “If only these conversations had happened in induction.” Influencing Employee Aspiration with Action Learning-led inductions in the Big Four Employee Relations, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Jolliffe P, Collins H, Gold J. 2023. Skilling marginalised or skills eco‐system, precarious workers and higher education - A case study of Roma in Liverpool, UK International Journal of Training and Development, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Callaghan D. 2022. What a difference a zoom makes: Intercultural interactions between host and international students Journal of comparative and International Higher Education, 14 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Jolliffe P, Barry S. 2021. Why working from home leaves the lowest paid at more risk of infection The Conversation, Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Dailey-Strand C, Callaghan D. 2021. 'Those first few months were horrible': cross-cultural adaptation and the J-curve in international students experience in the UK and Norway Journal of Studies in International Education, 13 :73-84 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Barry S, Dzuga P. 2021. 'Working while feeling awful is normal': one Roma's experience of presenteeism Work, Employment and Society, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Harrison PA, Collins H, Bahor A. 2020. "We don't have the same opportunities as others": shining Bourdieu's lens on UK Roma migrants' Precarious (Workers') habitus Work, Employment and Society, 36 :217-234 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Callaghan D, Collins H. 2020. Adaptive Action Learning in an online community: facilitating a large cohort to deliver results Action Learning: research and practice, 18 :20-37 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Harrison P, Palasinski M. 2020. Out of the shadows: A young woman's journey from hiding to celebrating her identity The Qualitative Report, 25 :1-18 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Harrison PA, Collins H. 2020. Coronavirus shows key workers need better pay and protection – here’s what has to change The Conversation, Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Harrison P. 2019. race to the bottom in the conversation ttp://theconversation.com/warnings-of-a-race-to-the-bottom-on-workers-pay-and-conditions-should-concern-us-all-126635 The Conversation,

Harrison PA, Collins H. 2019. Warnings of a ‘race to the bottom’ on workers’ pay and conditions should concern us all Hood L. The Conversation, Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Harrison PA. 2019. Supporting Liverpool's Roma community: an illumination via Bourdieu's theory of capital Innovations in Practice, 13 :10-15 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Harrison PA. 2019. My dreams are becoming reality The Big Issue, Publisher Url Public Url

Collins H, Callaghan D. 2018. The role of Action Learning in supporting cross-cultural adaptation of international students Action Learning: Research and Practice, 15 :267-275 DOI Publisher Url

Collins H, wray-bliss E. 2005. discriminating ethics Human Relations, DOI Publisher Url

Collins H, duffy C, Jolliffe P. ‘It’s down to hard work, lonely work, long, long hours, and you have to be able to sacrifice’; removing the veil of the Gender-Neutral organisation. Gender Issues, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Conference publication

Callaghan D, Collins H. 2023. “If only these conversations had happened in induction.” Influencing employee aspiration with action learning-led inductions in the Big Four Employee Relations, UFHRD 46 :19-35 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Jolliffe P, Collins H, Jolliffe K. 2021. ‘Lots of little jobs’ – building local skills ecosystems for the precarious worker CIPD Applied Research, Applied Research Conference Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Barry S, Collins H, Jolliffe P. The ‘dark side’ and unintended consequences of front line worker high employee engagement practices in the hospitality industry

Barry S, Collins H, D’harboullé C, Jolliffe P. Elucidating the ‘dark side’ and unintended consequences of frontline worker high employee engagement practices in the hospitality sector The International Journal of Human Resource Management, University Forum for Human Resource Development Conference Public Url

Collins H, Jolliffe P, Barry S. er: 2024 Winners of best paper at the International Conference on HRD Research and Practice across Europe, Lisbon June 2024 -Community-led research: A case study of supporting the GTRSB UK community into Education (Jolliffe P, Collins H and Barry S) ID: 588B753C-6CE2-4B93-BFAC-971D4029A563 Award title: Alan Moon Prize winner: 2024 Winners of best paper at the International Conference on HRD Research and Practice across Europe, Lisbon June 2024 -Community-led research: A case study of supporting the GTRSB UK community into Education (Jolliffe P, Collins H and Barry S) Awarding body: University Forum for Human Resource Development, June 2024. Lisbon. Date: 14 Jun 2024 UFHRD

Collins DH, Jolliffe P, Barry S. Building bridging social capital in a marginalised community: a trifecta collaboration between higher education, a GTRSB community in the UK and the City Council University Forum for Human Resource Development Conference Proceeding 2024, University Forum for Human Resource Development Conference 2024

Internet publication

Collins H, Jolliffe P, Smith R, Bahor A. 2023. Listening to hidden voices: creating meaningful and sustainable partnerships between marginalised groups and their universities Publisher Url Public Url

Editorial/letter to the editor

Collins H, Jolliffe P. 2022. Creating Impact with Research and Outreach Collins H. AACSB,

Award:

LJMU, Embedding the GTRSB Pledge in Schools within LCR. 2024

LJMU QR, Using the Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boaters' (GTRSB) HE and Schools Pledge to increase Liverpool GTRSB into FE and HE. 2023

VC Chancellors Award Excellence in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Liverpool John Moores University. 2021. 2021

VC Chancellor Commendation Award for Excellence in Social and Economic Engagement, VC-Chancellor Awards, LJMU. 2019. 2019

British Academy, 'If you could do one thing...', British Academy for all humanities and social sciences. 2017. 2017

Public engagement:

Festival event, public, schools, LCR, universities, FE colleges, NGOs, joint organiser, GTRSB Celebration, Community celebration day in June 2024, brought together LJMU with the GTRSB community members, students, local NGOs, national GTRSB groups etc.. 2024

Other Professional Activity:

GTRSB Celebration Event. 2024

Conference presentation:

Other, Arlington, Washington, USA, Academy of HRD. AHRD, Serendipity and symbiosis: ,marginalised communities, HE and partnerships - a case study of the GTRSB community in the UK.. 2024

Other, online, IaeLyon international week/seminars,, Managing opportunities for tackling precarity in the labour market: teaching a partnership approach through OD interventions,. 2020

Oral presentation, Bournemouth, UK, MINT, The Roma Project, Employability and the use of Motivational Interviewing,. 2019

Other, Newcastle, UFHRD2018 Conference: Power and possibility: unleashing the potential of HRD,, Widening access to educational opportunity and employability for underrepresented groups: the Liverpool Roma Employability Project (LREN),. 2018

Oral presentation, Universidade Europeia, Lisbon, Portugal, The 17th international UFHRD Conference, Gaining and legitimising power by the precariat in the precariat world: A story of the Roma in the UK. 2017

Oral presentation, CIPD online, CIPD Applied Research Conference 2021, Online, Oral presentation. 2021, A future ‘fair’ skills ecosystem - the rhetoric and reality for the precarious worker. 2012

Other invited event:

online, Reviewing articles for inclusion in GWO, reviewer for Gender, Work and Organisation. 2023

Lyon, France, teaching a large group of Masters students OD and change management, IAELYON International Week. 2023

Research Grants Awarded:

Duration of research project: 12 months, Grant value (£): £9855, LJMU qr, Patricia Jolliffe, sing the Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boaters' (GTRSB) HE and Schools Pledge to increase Liverpool GTRSB into FE and HE,. 2023

Duration of research project: 6 Months, Grant value (£): £2000, Internal pump-priming of research,, Patricia Jolliffe, Building Roma Social Capital and Policy through a National Roma Network (NRN),. 2022

Duration of research project: 8 months, Grant value (£): £30000, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Patricia Jolliffe, Roma Education Aspiration Project Continuation Project. 2021

Duration of research project: 9 months, Grant value (£): £2000, QR Funding, Patricia Jolliffe, To investigate the ways in which Roma women manage and negotiate their labour relations. 2019

Duration of research project: 9 months, Grant value (£): £4400, REF-Upskilling Project, Patricia Jolliffe, Increasing education and employability opportunities for Roma,. 2018

Duration of research project: 9 months, Grant value (£): £30000, MHCLG, Patricia Jolliffe, Roma Education Aspiration Project. 2018

Duration of research project: i year, Grant value (£): £1970, QR Funding, Patricia Jolliffe, Working with local and international partners to make a difference in the Roma community,. 2017

Conference organisation:

Conference organiser with Patricia Jolliffe, ACERT Advisory Council for the Education of Romany and other Travellers, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storytelling-education-and-wellbeing-tickets-490434993267.. 2023

co-organiser of Innovation Event, UFHRD. 2022

Media Coverage:

ACERT Conference (opens in a new tab) 2023 2023

PRME North West Event, Organising Team. 2022 2022

My dreams are becoming reality’ Article in Big Issue concerning Employability Fair 2019 Research by Dr P Harrison and Helen Collins mentioned. (opens in a new tab) 2020 2020

Roma Education and Employability Event, Organiser. 2019 2019

External collaboration:

RSG, Roma support Group London, with LJMU, Huddersfield University and Granby Toxteth. 2022

validation committee of new HRM programmes, University of Ulster. 2019

programme validation, University of Ulster in London. 2018

Teaching qualification:

HEA Fellow. 2016

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