Mike Hales

In reverse date order.

• February 2024 - Participant, WSF2024, World Social Forum, Kathmandu:  report in Grassroots Economic Organising 
• 2020-2023 - Operational member (with Wouter Tebbens), meet.coop, The online meeting co-op: Change the world, one meeting at a time. Convenor, community circle.
• 2018-2020 - Co-convenor (with Mary Kaldor) of a discussion circle at LSE, London, on the work of deceased radical economist, Robin Murray; Chief Economist, Greater London Council 1982-86, pioneer of Fairtrade and ‘wealth from waste’; author Cooperation in the age of Google 2010, Danger and opportunity - Crisis and the new social economy 2009.
• 2018 - (with Lu Gao), Lives in STS as ‘a series of failed political experiments, Society for Social Studies of Science conference Sydney, Australia.
• 2016-18 - Contributor, radical science archive (BSSRS archive), Wellcome Foundation, London.
• 2018 - Location - Explorations of power and landscapes of design, Barefoot Documents, Brighton. Collected 1990s’ papers. Researchgate
• 2016 - Re-issued Living thinkwork - Where do labour processes come from?, digital edition, Barefoot Documents, Brighton.
• 2009 - (with Joe Tidd), ‘The practice of routines and representations in design and development.’, Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 18, Number 4, pp. 551–574 doi:10.1093/icc/dtp019.
• 2003-2006 - Researcher, SPRU, University of Sussex. ‘Knowledge management’ through visual materials, in practices of design. Ethnographic field study of engineers doing conceptual design of a silicon-fab ion-implantation machine.
• 2001-2003 - Senior research fellow, AEGIS, University of Western Sydney, Business School.
• 2001 - Birds were dinosaurs once - The diversity and evolution of Research and Technology Organisations, synthesis report of the RISE project , TSER programme, European Commission, DG Research. Researchgate
• 1994 - ‘Where are designers? Styles of design practice, objects of design and views of users in Computer Supported Cooperative Work’, in Rosenberg & Hutchison (eds), Design issues in CSCW, Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp. 151-177. Researchgate
• 1994 - ‘How powerful could CSCW be? Traditions for understanding and challenging professional practices’, Oksnöen symposium on participatory design, Norway. Researchgate
• 1993-94 - Organisational change consultancy (rollout of supply chain digital infrastructure), Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm.
• 1990-2001 - Senior research fellow, Centre for Research in Innovation Management, University of Brighton, Business School.
• 1993 - ‘The location of humans, ordinary people and women in system design - ‘At the centre’?’, in Location 2018, above. Originally: ‘Human-centred systems, gender and computer supported co-operative work’ in Probert & Wilson (eds) (1993), Pink collar blues – Work, gender and technology, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 101-125.
• 1987-1990 - Freelance, Barefoot Documents consultancy. Technology and labour, prospectus.
• 1986-1990 - London Strategic Policy Unit, policy researcher. Gender and IT, participatory design of workplace IT systems.
• 1982-86 - Greater London Council, technologist/economist, Industry and Employment Branch (‘The London Industrial Strategy’). The emerging knowledge economy, technology networks, digital convergence and recomposition of labour, telecoms privatisation.
• 1982 - Science or society? The politics of the work of scientists, Channel 4 TV, Crucible, Pan Books.
• 1980 - Living thinkwork - Where do labour processes come from? Conference of Socialist Economists Books. Re-issued, see 2016 above.
• 1978 - Operational research and the forces of production - A Marxist analysis of science and ideology, DPhil thesis, University of Sussex.
• 1977-78 - Chemco News, ICI shop stewards’ Combine Committee newspaper, editor.
• 1974-77 - Operational research analyst/trade union organiser, ICI Organics Division, Blackley, Manchester.
• 1972- 82 - Radical Science Journal editorial collective, founder member.
• 1972 - Co-organiser, conference on workers’ self-management in science, BSSRS, London.
• 1969-74 - Postgraduate (MSc, DPhil), history and social studies of science, University of Sussex.
• 1967-69 - Chemical engineer, ICI Plastics Division.
• 1964-67 - BSc, chemical engineering, UMIST, Manchester.