Jill Timms

Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, Coventry University

I am a sociologist focusing on working life, organisations and ethics. I received my PhD from London School of Economics, researching corporate social responsibility and campaigns for workers' rights in global supply chains. This involved empirical work on the luxury fashion industry, mega events like the Olympic Games and the cut flower industry.

I am now a Senior Lecturer in the School of Strategy and Leadership and Associate at the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University. I am Co-Lead on the Global Cut Flower Production Network Project, investigating social and environmental impacts of supply chains. We are working with key industry stakeholders to develop models of sustainability to benefit all, including mapping of the shifting certification landscape.

My interest in mega-events leads me to contribute to the EventRights project recently launched and I continue to take an interest in the wider developing discourse of responsible business, ethical employment and workers' rights campaigns. I have a long standing interest in how responsibility is understand in the context of a globalising world.

I am currently Co-Convenor of the Work, Employment and Economic Life (WEEL) study group of the British Sociology Association, and part of the committee for the Global Studies Association (GSA).

Experience

2015–present

Senior lecturer, Coventry University
2011–2015

Lecturer (part time), Brunel University
2013–2013

Lecturer (part time), Foundation for International Education
2004–2005

Visiting Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London
2003–2004

Visiting Lecturer , Imperial College
2001–2002

Global Civil Society Junior Fellow, London School of Economics
1999–2001

Tutor, University of Leicester

Education

2012

London School of Economics, PhD Sociology
1999

University College Dublin, MSocSc Sociology (Distinction)
1996

Keele University, BA (Hons) Business Administration, Sociology and Social Anthropology