Watch the webinar: #AskTheExpert - Key ingredients for the future of work: job quality and gender equality

Moderator: Mary McCaughey

Mary is Head of Information and Communication in Eurofound, where she has worked since 2003. A graduate in Business and Politics from Trinity College, Dublin and an ‘ancienne’ of the College of Europe, Bruges, she began her career in journalism in Brussels in 1990 with Europe Information Service and the Wall Street Journal Europe. She subsequently contributed to the WSJE and the Irish Times as a features writer before taking up the post of spokesperson with the Delegation of the European Commission to South Africa in 1998, heading up its press and information department. In 2001, she moved to Belgrade, Serbia, where she worked as a communications consultant for the European Agency for Reconstruction.
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Speaker: Agnès Parent-Thirion

Agnès is a senior research manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound, tasked with the planning, development and implementation of working conditions research projects, in particular the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) and its analyses. She is responsible for the EWCTS 2021 extraordinary edition and for the preparation of the questionnaire for the EWCS 2024. Her research interests include working conditions, job quality, the monitoring of working conditions, work organisation, gender, the future of work and time. She has been working in the area of European comparative surveys for more than a decade, in all aspects including design, questionnaire development, fieldwork, quality control and analysis. She is involved in several statistical taskforces for the measurement of the 'Quality of employment'  (ILO-UNECE-EUROSTAT), the 'Quality of the working environment' (OECD), and the measure of psychosocial risks (the 'rapport Gollac'). She is a graduate in economics and management from Paris IX Dauphine and Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne universities, holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin and practices lifelong learning. Before joining Eurofound, she worked for a number of years in the European Commission.

Speaker: Jorge Cabrita

Jorge is a 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 conditions of the critical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid workplaces, and working time developments in the EU. 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.