Between 1969 and 1977 I worked in various industries, where I was an active union member and shop steward (GMB, UCATT). In 1977 I got a union scholarship (GMB) to Ruskin College. Prior to joining Keele in 1995 I was a Research Fellow at IRRU, Warwick University for eight years.

I have undertaken research and teaching work with trade unions (e.g. on the GMB/IG Chemie programme on EWC's; the AMICUS programme on the Information and Consultation Directive; membership research with the CWU).

My main research interests are:

• Union membership and organization
• Collective bargaining
• Trade unions and politics

Jefferys, S. C. Whitston, A. Roe (2001) Taking the Pulse of British Trade Unionism: Inside the Communication Workers’ Union, in S. Jefferys, F. M. Beyer and C. Thörnqvist (eds) European Working Lives: Continuities and Change in Management and Industrial Relations in France, Scandinavia and the UK (Edward Elgar Cheltenham) pp. 157-172

Whitston, C, A. Roe, & S. Jefferys (1999) Job regulation and the managerial challenge to trade unions: evidence from two membership surveys
Industrial Relations Journal Vol 30, No 5, pp. 482-488.

Waddington, J.  C. Whitston (1997) Why do people join unions in a period of membership decline? British Journal of Industrial Relations Vol. 35, No 4, pp 515-546.

Waddington, J. C. Whitston (1996) Empowerment Versus Intensification: Union Perspectives on Change at the Workplace in P. Ackers, C. Smith, and P. Smith (eds) The New Workplace & Trade Unionism, (Routledge, London) pp. 149-177

Waddington, J.  C. Whitston (1995)Work intensification and grievances at unionised workplaces in the UK Industrielle Beziehungen Vol. 2, No 4, pp. 414-443. 

Waddington, J. C.  Whitston (1993) Research As Engagement: Trade Unionism Into The Nineties in C Thorne and K Forester (eds) Trade Unions And Social Research (Avebury, London) pp. 24-44