Dr Jana Javornik
- Position: Associate Professor of Work and Employment Relations
- Areas of expertise: work-family policy; female employment; diversity; equality; inclusion; recruitment; comparative social policy; job design and workplace; (policy) indicator development; measurement
- Email: J.Javornik@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 0564
- Location: 2.11 26 Lyddon Terrace
- Website: Twitter | LinkedIn | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
Qualifications
I have a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Southampton, MPhil in Sociology from Ljubljana and MSc in Social Policy from Universities of Roskilde, Bath, Pavia, Maynooth, Madrid, Leuven, and Bergen), and a BA in Sociology from Ljubljana. My degrees were interdisciplinary, combining sociology, social policy, statistics, political science and development, economics, demography and research methods.
Experience
I am Associate Professor in Work and Employment Relations. I returned to Leeds in November 2018, after my tenure at the University of East London, where I worked as Associate Professor in Social Policy and Director of Noon Centre for Equality and Diversity in Business. Prior to that, I was a research fellow in Sociology and Social Policy here at Leeds and Ume University in Sweden, after having spent more than ten years in policy making, working as Senior Policy Advisor for central governments and high-profile international organisations, including the European Commission, World Bank, and ILO. Among others, I was Editor-in-Chief of the UNDP national Human Development Reports and Stability Pact Project Manager for the Balkans, having developed programmes on gender empowerment under the auspices of Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. I helped set up a Gender Task Force and a CEE Network for Gender Issues, comprising gender organisations from Eastern Europe and the CiS, North Africa and the Middle East, now serving as their Adviser.
Academic Citizenship
I am member of Transforming Care Conference Scientific Committee and Special Interest Groups of the international Work-Family Researchers Network. I serve on the Editorial Boards of Work, Employment & Society; International Journal of Care and Caring; and Journal Druzboslovne razprave (by the Slovenian Sociological Association); and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Family Studies and Guest co-Editor of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
I pen for and my research has been featured in The Economist, The Conversation, Guardian and Observer, Financial Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Telegraph. I comment for the BBC (radio and TV), TNT and Slovenian national radio and TV.
Research interests
Research
My current research interests include:
- Comparative work-family policies and their impact across social groups and welfare states, the persistence and change of inequalities at the intersection of production and social reproduction.
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in the labour market; opportunity gaps in the labour markets; recruitment, retainment and progression; diversity management and changing organisational practices more broadly.
- Conceptualisations and methods of comparative policy analysis; indicator development and (policy) data visualisation.
Geographically, I focus on the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe, and the United Kingdom.
I have published across these areas and received funding from UKCES (UK Futures Programme), UNDP, European Commission, the International Labour Organisation, the World Bank, Gatsby and Noon Foundation, Ad Futura (Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund), the Norwegian Financial Mechanism Programme, Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Norrlands Universitetssjukhus.
My work has led to the production of high profile policy reports, including co-authored Social Situation in Europe reports for the European Commission, Human Development Reports for the UNDP, and a range of reports for Slovenian central government. I have contributed to the UKCES report on Futures programme, exploring employers' initiatives around gendered opportunity gaps, looking specifically at high and low pay sectors.
My research around equality, diversity and inclusion has been used by a broad network of users, and I advise CEOs of FTSE100 and Bloomberg on gender pay gap reporting, the Slovenian and Scottish governments on family policy, Londons Mayor on Good Work Standards, and BITC on the Times Top 50 Employers for Women list. I am a member of the Government Equalities Offices WAGE programme and Barking and Dagenham Equalities Sub Group, and I co-organise the Global Equality and Diversity Conference and Awards (www.gedconference.com).
Research Affiliations
I am affiliated with University of Stockholm (SOFI) and Umea in Sweden; Alberta (Human Ecology; Canada);Utrecht; Central European Labour Studies Institute (EU); Iceland and Copenhagen Business Schools; Roskilde University (Denmark) University of Ljubljana; and Work Futures Research Centre (Southampton).
Qualifications
- PhD in Comparative Social Policy, University of Southampton
- MPhil in Sociology, University of Ljubljana
- MSc in Comparative Social Policy, Maynooth, Bath, Roskilde, Pavia, Madrid, Bergen, Leuven
- BA Sociology, University of Ljubljana
Professional memberships
- ESPAnet
- Work-Family Researchers Network
- SPA
- Sociological Associations
Student education
I teach on undergraduate and postgraduate courses on topics related to work-family policy, employment and public policy, gender inequality, diversity management, human resource management, people's analytics, social policy, and research methods.
I supervise undergraduate and master-level students, PhD students and post-doctoral researchers across UoL and overseas.
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change