Programme AIHR 2018 - 27/28 March 2018

Day one

08.30-09.00	Welcome coffee and croissants
09.00-09.10	Dr Craig Thompson – Dean Hotel Management School craig.thompson@stenden.com Open Conference
09.10-09.30	Professor Conrad Lashley- Hospitality Studies - AIHR Slavery, liberation and business ethics
09.30-10.00	Pawel Szalus - International Organization for Migration Slavery Today
10.00-10.30	Erwin van der Graaf, Area General Manager Mercure Netherlands and Director of Franchise Operations Netherlands Fighting human trafficking
10.30-10.45	Coffee break
10.45-11.15	Professor Alexandros Paraskeva – University of West London Researching slavery in Europe’s hotels
11.15-11.45	Sian Lee, Senior Program Manager, Shiva Foundation Opposing slavery a practitioner’s response
11.45-12.15	Eline Willemsen – Fair Work Foundation (www.fairwork.nu) Brian Varma – CoMensha (www.comensha.nl) Working with the Trafficked
12.15-13.00	Questions and panel discussion
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.15	Professor Conrad Lashley Neo-liberalism and neo-slavery
14.15-14.45	Stephen French, University of Keele Low pay research
14.45-15.15	Martha Crawford, Living Wage Foundation, Impacts of paying the living wage
15.15-16.00	Questions and discussion
16.00-16.15	Tea Break
16.15-17.30	Paper sessions
17.30	Close

Day two

09.30-10.00	Welcome coffee and croissants
10.00-10.30	Elisabet Abrahamsson, Le Mat, Sweden Worker Cooperatives
10.30-11.00	Dave Turnbull, UNITE trade union Hotel Workers Trade Union
11.00-11.15	Coffee break
11-15-11.45	Catherine Rihoux, Worker-participation – EU Employee participation
11.45-12.15	Michael O’Malley How bees empower their workers
12.15-13.00	Questions and panel discussion
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.00	Paper presentations
15.00-15.15	Tea Break
15.15-16.15	Paper presentations
16.15-16.30	Final comments and wind-up