Gør klimaændringerne arbejdet farligere i Europa?

Mary McCaughey er informations- og kommunikationschef i Eurofound. Hun er uddannet fra Trinity College i Dublin og College of Europe i Brügge og begyndte at arbejde i Bruxelles med Europolitics og Wall Street Journal Europe. Hun arbejdede for Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) i Sydafrika under landets overgang til demokrati, og i 1998 tiltrådte hun stillingen som talsmand for Den Europæiske Unions delegation i Pretoria, hvor hun ledede dens presse- og informationsafdeling under forhandlingerne om frihandelsaftalen mellem EU og Sydafrika. Efter afslutningen af Kosovo-krigen arbejdede hun som kommunikationskonsulent for Det Europæiske Genopbygningsagentur i Serbien. Hun tiltrådte stillingen som chefredaktør i Eurofound i 2003.

Agnès Parent-Thirion er seniorforskningsleder i Eurofounds arbejdslivsenhed, der har til opgave at planlægge, udvikle og gennemføre forskningsprojekter om arbejdsvilkår, navnlig den europæiske undersøgelse af arbejdsvilkårene (EWCS) og analyserne heraf. Hun er ansvarlig for den ekstraordinære udgave af EWCS 2021 og for udarbejdelsen af spørgeskemaet til EWCS 2024. Hendes forskningsinteresser omfatter arbejdsforhold, jobkvalitet, overvågning af arbejdsvilkår, arbejdstilrettelæggelse, køn, fremtidens arbejde og tid. Hun har arbejdet inden for europæiske sammenlignende undersøgelser i mere end et årti inden for alle aspekter, herunder design, udvikling af spørgeskemaer, feltarbejde, kvalitetskontrol og analyse. Hun er uddannet i økonomi og ledelse fra Paris IX Dauphine og Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne universiteter og har en postgraduate diplom i statistik fra Trinity College Dublin. Hun har for nylig gennemført onlinekurser om kunstig intelligens: undersøgelsesdrevet ledelse med MIT Sloan Executive Education og 'Les grand enjeux de la transition: re-ouvrir l'horizon, comprendre pour agir' med Campus de la Transition. Før hun kom til Eurofound, arbejdede hun i en årrække i Europa-Kommissionen.

Tina Weber is a senior research manager in Eurofound’s Working Life unit. Her work has focused on labour shortages, the impact of hybrid work and an ‘always on’ culture and the right to disconnect, working conditions and social protection measures for self-employed workers and the impact of the twin transitions on employment, working conditions and industrial relations. She is responsible for studies assessing the representativeness of European social partner organisations. She has also carried out research on European Works Councils and the evolution of industrial relations and social dialogue in the European Union. Prior to joining Eurofound in 2019, she worked for a private research institute primarily carrying out impact assessments and evaluations of EU labour law and labour market policies. Tina holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Edinburgh which focussed on the role of national trade unions and employers’ organisations in the European social dialogue.

Jorge Cabrita is a senior research manager in the Working Life unit. He is responsible for formulating, coordinating and managing European-wide research, and promoting the dissemination of findings in the areas of working conditions and industrial relations. His main research areas of interest include working conditions and job quality, working time and work–life balance, workers’ health and well-being, gender equality and the socioeconomic impacts of the transition to a climate-neutral economy. He is currently leading research on working time developments and on social dialogue and collective bargaining during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Centre for Studies for Social Intervention and at the Research Centre on the Portuguese Economy of the Lisbon School of Economics, and as a trainer and consultant in the areas of strategic management, organisational communication, leadership and team building. He holds a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Socio-Organisational Systems of Economic Activity from the Lisbon School of Economics.