Academy of Social Sciences
Work and Wellbeing Conference
20th October 2010
Unilever House, 100 Victoria Embankment,
London EC4Y 0DY (directions)
Sponsored by SAGE and Unilever PLC, a major day conference for employers, operations managers, HR professionals and the academic community on current issues in work and wellbeing, viewed over the course of the traditional working life, from both employer and employee perspectives.
Good health enables human flourishing and fulfilment. Given the amount of time spent at work, the workplace is central to physical and psychological health, as well as life satisfaction. As the costs of ill health continue to rise, workplace health has become an issue that employers can no longer afford to ignore.
This conference brings together all the latest thinking on current issues in work and wellbeing, from both academic and practitioner perspectives.
We are delighted to announce the conference chair will be Professor Philip Dewe, Vice Master at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.30 Welcome to the conference - Stephen Anderson, Executive Director, Academy of Social Sciences
Chair for the day: Professor Philip Dewe, Vice Master, Birkbeck College
10:40 The importance of the Health and Well Being Agenda – An Overview of the link between Work and Health - Professor Cary L Cooper CBE AcSS, Chair of Council, Academy of Social Sciences and Pro Vice Chancellor (External Relations) and Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University
11.10 Workplace Health and the Law – Current Issues: Simon Ost, Partner, Employment Practice, Hammonds LLP, Manchester
11.40 Refreshment Break
12.00 The Organisational Costs of Mental Ill-Health: Mike Parsonage, Senior Policy Advisor, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, London
12.30 The Issue of Bullying in the Workplace: Professor Charlotte Rayner, Professor of Human Resource Management Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth
13.00 Lunch
Session Chair: TBA
14.00 What people want from work – the changing needs and attitudes to work at different life stages: Professor Susan Cartwright, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Well Being, Director of Centre for Organizational Health and Well-Being, Lancaster University
14.30 The Value of Older Workers: Mr David Fairhurst, Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer, McDonald's UK & Northern Europe
15.00 Health Promotion in the Workplace: Dr John Cooper, Head of Corporate Occupational Health, Unilever PLC
15.30 Health and Worklessness: Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, FRCP, FMedSci. Director for Health and Work, DWP, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Chair of the Nuffield Trust
16.00 Discussion
16:30 Close & Tea
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£195 (£125 for Academy members)
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For further information please contact Victoria McGuinness (administrator@acss.org.uk)
tel: 020 7330 0898
web: http://www.acss.org.uk/
