Wellington Park Hotel, Malone Road,
Belfast, BT9 6RU
5 and 6 March 2018
5 March 2018
| 12.00 – 14.00 | Registration / Lunch |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Welcome and Opening: Chair and opening remarks: Sylvester Cronin, IDEAS Institute Owen Reidy, Assistant General-Secretary, ICTU Michael Gold, Royal Holloway College, University of London |
| 14.30 – 15.15 | Outline of European Commission funded DIRECT project – partners, results to date, etc. Kevin P O’Kelly, ETUI, Brussels, Project Expert |
| 15.15 – 15.45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15.45 – 16.30 | Gerry McCormack, Deputy General-Secretary, Private Sector, SIPTU Development of direct participation in Ireland – the SIPTU view |
| 16.30 – 17.15 | DIRECT project – UK case studies Chris Rees and Michael Gold, Royal Holloway College, University of London |
| 17.15 – 17.30 | Comments and discussion |
| 19.30 | Dinner in Deanes at Queens |
6 March 2018
| 09.30 - 10.15 | DIRECT project - workplace innovation in Ireland Tony Murphy, IDEAS Institute |
| 10.15 – 11.00 | An Irish case study John Roulstone, Production Manager, Kirchhoff Automotive Ireland |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.30 – 12.15 | Overview of IPA experiences with direct participation in UK Patrick Briône, Head of Policy and Research, Involvement and Participation Association (IPA), London |
| 12.15 – 13.00 | Workplace Innovation: the role of UKWON Peter Totterdill, Joint Chief Executive of the UK Work Organisation Network; Founding Director of Workplace Innovation Limited; Visiting Professor, Kingston University, London; and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bath |
| 13.00 | Lunch – end of seminar |
- Project DIRECT - Michael Gold and Chris Rees
- KIRCHHOFF Case Study
- European DIRECT Project
- Seminar report