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Deborah Hann   Academic FCIPD PGCHE FHEA PhD (Manchester)

Professor Deborah Hann

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Academic FCIPD PGCHE FHEA PhD (Manchester)

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Overview

Professor Deborah Hann is a Professor in Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School.  She is currently Acting Head of School.  

Her research focuses in two main areas:

  • Dispute resolution in the workplace
  • The Real Living Wage as a form of civil regulation

She has undertaken research in conjunction with Acas, the Labour Relations Agency, the Civil Medication Council, Citizens UK and the Living Wage Foundation. She has published her research broadly including in Industrial and Labour Relations Review, Work Employment and Society, Human Resource Management Journal and Economic and Industrial Democracy.    She is member of the Editorial Board for Work, Employment and Society.  Her research is highly impactful, as evidenced in the REF Impact case study.  She engages in Living Wage promotion within Cardiff and Wales and is a Living Wage Commissioner.  

 

 

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Research

Professor Deborah Hann is a Professor in Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School.  Her research focuses in two main areas:

  • Dispute resolution in the workplace
  • The Real Living Wage as a form of civil regulation


She has undertaken research in conjunction with Acas, the Labour Relations Agency, the Civil Medication Council, Citizens UK and the Living Wage Foundation. She has published her research broadly including in Industrial and Labour Relations Review, Work Employment and Society, Human Resource Management Journal and Economic and Industrial Democracy.    She is member of the Editorial Board for Work, Employment and Society.  Her research is highly impactful, as evidenced in her REF Impact case study.  She engages in Living Wage promotion within Cardiff and Wales and is a Living Wage Commissioner.  

 She has recently co-authored 'The Real Living Wage: Civil Regulation and the Employment Relationship' and co-edited the 2023 LERA international edited volume on conflict resolution. 

 

 

 

Teaching

Professor Hann is currently Pro-Dean for Education and Students 

She is also a Fellow of the HEA

Biography

Professional memberships

  • Academic Member of CIPD
  • Fellow of Advance HE

 

Supervisions

PhD supervision research interests

  • Dispute resolution
  • Living Wage
  • Civil Society Organisations

Current supervision

News articles

Academics from Cardiff Business School have published a new policy brief for the Living Wage Foundation.

Cardiff experts show Living Wage’s impact in new policy brief

15 May 2025

Academics from Cardiff Business School have published a new policy brief for the Living Wage Foundation.

Cardiff Business School marked Living Wage Week 2023 with a breakfast briefing which highlighted the pivotal role Cardiff University and Cardiff as a city play in this initiative.

Celebrating twenty years of the Living Wage

10 December 2023

Cardiff Business School marked Living Wage Week 2023 with a breakfast briefing which highlighted the pivotal role Cardiff University and Cardiff as a city play in this initiative.

New podcast, The Power of Public Value, explores how to change our society and economy for the benefit of current and future generations.

New podcast explores the power of public value

28 September 2023

New podcast, The Power of Public Value, explores how to change our society and economy for the benefit of current and future generations.

Calling for Real Living Wage in Wales

Tackling cost of living pressures in Wales

02 August 2022

Calling for Real Living Wage in Wales

Cardiff University research has been tracking its impact for nearly a decade

Real Living Wage milestone as 10,000 employers are accredited

11 May 2022

Cardiff University research has been tracking its impact for nearly a decade

Undergraduates support community needs in business and society

Employment activism on St David’s Day

22 March 2021

Undergraduates support community needs in business and society

Briefing outlines initiatives for social and economic COVID recovery

Building back better

08 October 2020

Briefing outlines initiatives for social and economic COVID recovery

Students deliver for Cardiff businesses and community

Community Jobs Compact

27 May 2020

Students deliver for Cardiff businesses and community

Impact for workers calculated by Cardiff University researchers

Living Wage reaches £1bn milestone

24 September 2019

Impact for workers calculated by Cardiff University researchers

Breakfast briefing celebrates #livingwageweek

Business benefits of the living wage

09 November 2017

Breakfast briefing celebrates #livingwageweek

New report launched at research and networking event

Exploring Living Wage Employers’ experiences

24 March 2017

New report launched at research and networking event

Contact Details

Email [email protected]
Telephone +44 29208 75559
Campuses Aberconway Building, Room Q22, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Employment practices