Richard Saundry

Richard Saundry is a Principal Research Fellow at The University of Westminster and currently working on the Skilled Managers project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) investigating the link between conflict competence, employee engagement and productivity.

Previously he was Professor of HRM and Employment Relations at the University of Sheffield along with posts at the Universities of Leeds, Central Lancashire and Plymouth. He is the UKs leading academic authority on the management of discipline, grievance and workplace conflict. He is an author of ‘Managing Employment Relations’ the core CIPD text for Employee Relations and also edited ‘Reframing Resolution’ published in 2016 by Palgrave Macmillan, an important collection of cutting- edge conflict management research. His work has been published in a wide range of leading international academic journals including the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal and Work Employment and Society.

Richard has worked particularly closely with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) over the last ten years to shape policy and identify and evaluate innovative practice. This has involved a series of projects in the NHS including an influential review of the conflict management system develop by Northumbria Healthcare Trust.