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Houston, Donald and Lindsay, Colin and Stewart, Robert and Byrne, George (2024) Local labour markets, workforce planning and underemployment. Economic and Industrial Democracy. pp. 1-24. ISSN 0143-831X

Pearson, Sarah and Lindsay, Colin and Batty, Elaine and Cullen, Anne Marie and Eadson, Will (2023) Relational approaches to employability. Journal of Education and Work, 36 (4). pp. 270-283. ISSN 1363-9080

Lindsay, Colin and Pearson, Sarah and Batty, Elaine and Cullen, Anne Marie and Eadson, Will (2021) Collaborative innovation and activation in urban labour markets. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28 (3). pp. 282-297. ISSN 0969-7764

Lindsay, Colin and Pearson, Sarah and Batty, Elaine and Cullen, Anne Marie and Eadson, Will (2021) Empowering lone parents to progress towards employability. Journal of Social Policy, 51 (4). pp. 856-875. ISSN 0047-2794

Lindsay, Colin and Pearson, Sarah and Batty, Elaine and Cullen, Anne Marie and Eadson, Will (2021) Collaborative innovation in labour market inclusion. Public Administration Review, 81 (5). pp. 925-934. ISSN 0033-3352

Cunningham, Ian and Lindsay, Colin and Roy, Chandrima (2021) Diaries from the front line - formal supervision and job quality among social care workers during austerity. Human Resource Management Journal, 31 (1). pp. 187-201. ISSN 0954-5395

Lindsay, Colin and Pearson, Sarah and Batty, Elaine and Cullen, Anne Marie and Eadson, Will (2019) Street-level practice, personalisation and co-production in employability : insights from local services with lone parents. Social Policy and Society, 18 (4). pp. 647-658. ISSN 1474-7464

Lindsay, Colin and Pearson, Sarah and Batty, Elaine and Cullen, Anne Marie and Eadson, Will (2018) Co-production and social innovation in street-level employability services : lessons from services with lone parents in Scotland. International Social Security Review, 71 (4). pp. 33-50. ISSN 1468-246X

Lindsay, Colin and Pearson, Sarah and Batty, Elaine and Cullen, Anne Marie and Easdon, Will (2018) Street-level practice and the co-production of third sector-led employability services. Policy and Politics, 46 (4). pp. 517-587. ISSN 0305-5736

Lindsay, Colin and Pearson, Sarah and Batty, Elaine and Cullen, Anne Marie and Eadson, Will (2018) Co‐production as a route to employability : lessons from services with lone parents. Public Administration, 96 (2). pp. 318-332. ISSN 0033-3298

Lindsay, Colin and Findlay, Patricia and McQuarrie, Johanna and Bennie, Marion and Corcoran, Emma and Van Der Meer, Robert (2018) Collaborative innovation, new technologies and work redesign. Public Administration Review, 78 (2). pp. 251-260. ISSN 0033-3352

Findlay, Patricia and Lindsay, Colin and McQuarrie, Jo and Bennie, Marion and Corcoran, Emma D. and Van Der Meer, Robert (2017) Employer choice and job quality : workplace innovation, work redesign and employee perceptions of job quality in a complex healthcare setting. Work and Occupations, 44 (1). pp. 113-136. ISSN 0730-8884

Fuertes, Vanesa and Lindsay, Colin (2016) Personalization and street level practice in activation : the case of the UK's work programme. Public Administration, 94 (2). pp. 526-541. ISSN 0033-3298

Canduela, Jesus and Lindsay, Colin and Raeside, Robert and Graham, Helen (2015) Employability, poverty and the spheres of sociability – evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Social Policy and Administration, 49 (5). pp. 571-592. ISSN 0144-5596

Lindsay, Colin and Greve, Bent and Cabras, Ignazio and Ellison, Nick and Kellett, Steve (2015) Assessing the evidence base on health, employability and the labour market : lessons for activation in the UK. Social Policy and Administration, 49 (2). pp. 143-160. ISSN 0144-5596

Lindsay, Colin and Greve, Bent and Cabras, Ignazio and Ellison, Nick and Kellett, Steve (2015) Introduction : New perspectives on health, disability, welfare and the labour market. Social Policy and Administration, 49 (2). pp. 139-142. ISSN 0144-5596

Lindsay, Colin and Commander, Johanna and Findlay, Patricia and Bennie, Marion and Corcoran, Emma Dunlop and Van Der Meer, Robert (2014) 'Lean management', new technologies and employment in public health services : employees' experiences in the National Health Service. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25 (21). pp. 2941-2956. ISSN 0958-5192

Lindsay, Colin and Osborne, Stephen P. and Bond, Sue (2014) The 'new public governance' and employability services in an era of crisis : challenges for third sector organisations in Scotland. Public Administration, 92 (1). pp. 192-207. ISSN 0033-3298

Lindsay, Colin and Canduela, Jesus and Raeside, Robert (2013) Polarization in access to work-related training in Great Britain. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 34 (2). pp. 205-225. ISSN 0143-831X

Lindsay, Colin and Dutton, Matthew (2013) Promoting healthy pathways to employability : lessons for the UK's welfare-to-work agenda. Policy and Politics, 41 (2). pp. 183-200. ISSN 0305-5736

Canduela, Jesus and Dutton, Matthew and Johnson, Steve and Lindsay, Colin and McQuaid, Ronald and Raeside, Robert (2012) Ageing, skills and participation in work-related training in Britain : assessing the position of older workers. Work, Employment and Society, 26 (1). pp. 42-60. ISSN 0950-0170

Lindsay, Colin and Dutton, Matthew (2012) Promoting healthy routes back to work? Boundary spanning health professionals in employability programmes in Great Britain. Social Policy and Administration, 46 (5). pp. 509-525.

Lindsay, Colin and Houston, Donald (2011) Fit for purpose? Welfare reform and challenges for health and labour market policy in the UK. Environment and Planning A, 43 (3). pp. 703-721. ISSN 0308-518X

Lindsay, Colin and Dutton, Matthew (2010) Employability through health? Partnership-based governance and the delivery of Pathways to Work condition management services. Policy Studies, 31 (2). pp. 245-264. ISSN 0144-2872

Houston, Donald and Lindsay, Colin (2010) Fit for work? Health, employability and challenges for the UK welfare reform agenda. Policy Studies, 31 (2). pp. 133-142. ISSN 0144-2872

Lindsay, Colin (2010) In a lonely place? Social networks, job seeking and the experience of long-term unemployment. Social Policy and Society, 9 (1). pp. 25-37. ISSN 1474-7464

Canduela, Jesus and Chandler, Rachel and Elliott, Ian and Lindsay, Colin and Macpherson, Suzi and McQuaid, Ronald and Raeside, Robert (2010) Partnerships to support early school leavers : school-college transitions and winter leavers in Scotland. Journal of Education and Work, 23 (4). pp. 339-362. ISSN 1363-9080

Lindsay, Colin and McQuaid, Ronald (2009) New governance and the case of activation policies : comparing experiences in Denmark and the Netherlands. Social Policy and Administration, 43 (5). pp. 445-463.

Lindsay, Colin and Mailand, Mikkel (2009) Delivering employability in a vanguard 'active' welfare state : the case of Greater Copenhagen in Denmark. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27 (6). pp. 1040-1054. ISSN 1472-3425

Lindsay, Colin and Serrano Pascual, Amparo (2009) New perspectives on employability and labour market policy: reflecting on key issues. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27 (6). pp. 951-957. ISSN 1472-3425

Lindsay, Colin and McQuaid, Ronald and Dutton, Matthew (2008) Inter-agency co-operation and new approaches to employability. Social Policy and Administration, 42 (7). pp. 715-732.

Lindsay, Colin and McQuaid, Ronald (2008) Inter-agency co-operation in activation: comparing three vanguard ‘active’ welfare states. Social Policy and Society, 7 (3). pp. 353-365. ISSN 1474-7464

Lindsay, Colin and Munro, Anne and Wise, Sarah (2007) Making equalities work? Scottish trade unions’ approaches to equal opportunities. Equal Opportunities International, 26 (5). pp. 465-481. ISSN 0261-0159

Lindsay, Colin and McQuaid, Ronald and Dutton, Matthew (2007) ‘New approaches to employability in the UK: combining ‘human capital development’ and ‘work first’ strategies? Journal of Social Policy, 36 (4). pp. 539-560. ISSN 0047-2794

McQuaid, Ronald W. and Lindsay, Colin and Greig, Malcolm (2005) Job guarantees, employability training and partnerships in the retail sector. Local Economy, 20 (1). pp. 67-78. ISSN 1470-9325

Lindsay, Colin and Greig, Malcolm and McQuaid, Ronald (2005) Alternative job search strategies in remote rural and peri-urban labour markets: the role of social networks. Sociologia Ruralis, 45 (1). pp. 53-70. ISSN 0038-0199

Lindsay, Colin (2005) Employability, services for unemployed job seekers and the digital divide. Urban Studies, 42 (2). pp. 325-339. ISSN 0042-0980

Lindsay, Colin (2005) ‘McJobs’, ‘good jobs’ and skills: job-seekers' attitudes to low-skilled service work. Human Resource Management Journal, 15 (2). pp. 50-65. ISSN 0954-5395

McQuaid, Ronald and Lindsay, Colin (2005) The concept of employability. Urban Studies, 42 (2). pp. 197-219. ISSN 0042-0980

Lindsay, Colin and McQuaid, Ronald (2004) Avoiding the ‘McJobs’: unemployed job seekers and attitudes to service work. Work, Employment and Society, 18 (2). pp. 297-319. ISSN 0950-0170

Lindsay, Colin and Mailand, Mikkel (2004) Different routes, common directions? Activation policies for young people in Denmark and the UK. International Journal of Social Welfare, 13 (3). pp. 195-207.

McQuaid, Ronald and Lindsay, Colin and Greig, Malcolm (2004) Re-connecting the unemployed: information and communication technology and services for job seekers in rural areas. Information, Communication and Society, 7 (3). pp. 364-388. ISSN 1369-118X

Lindsay, Colin and McCracken, Martin and McQuaid, Ronald (2003) Unemployment duration and employability in remote rural labour markets. Journal of Rural Studies, 19 (2). pp. 187-200. ISSN 0743-0167

Lindsay, Colin (2002) Long-term unemployment and the "employability gap" : priorities for renewing Britain's New Deal. Journal of European Industrial Training, 26 (9). pp. 411-419. ISSN 0309-0590

McQuaid, Ronald and Lindsay, Colin (2002) The ‘employability gap’ : long-term unemployment and barriers to work in buoyant labour markets. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 20 (4). pp. 613-628. ISSN 1472-3425

Book Section

Lindsay, Colin; Bratton, John, ed. (2023) Leadership in public sector organizations. In: Organizational Leadership. Sage, London, pp. 335-353. ISBN 9781529793604

Findlay, Patricia and Lindsay, Colin and Roy, Graeme; McCann, Philip and Vorley, Tim, eds. (2021) Business models, innovation and employees' experiences in the workplace : challenges for the post-Covid-19 economy. In: Productivity and the Pandemic. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, pp. 132-146. ISBN 978 1 80037 460 7

Lindsay, Colin; Bratton, John, ed. (2020) Leadership in public sector organizations. In: Organizational Leadership. Sage, London, pp. 339-358. ISBN 9781526460110

Lindsay, Colin and Greve, Bent and Cabras, Ignazio and Ellison, Nick and Kellett, Stephen; Lindsay, Colin and Greve, Bent and Cabras, Ignazio and Ellison, Nick and Kellett, Stephen, eds. (2015) Assessing the evidence base on health, employability and the labour market - lessons for activation in the UK. In: New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market. Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy . John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 5-23. ISBN 9781119145516

Lindsay, Colin and Greve, Bent and Cabras, Ignazio and Ellison, Nick and Kellett, Stephen; Lindsay, Colin and Greve, Bent and Cabras, Ignazio and Ellison, Nick and Kellett, Stephen, eds. (2015) Introduction : new perspectives on health, disability, welfare and the labour market. In: New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market. Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy . John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9781119145516

Lindsay, Colin; Klehe, Ute-Christine and van Hooft, Edwin A.J., eds. (2014) Work first versus human capital development in employability programs. In: The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199764921

Conference or Workshop Item

van der Meer, Robert and Lindsay, Colin and Bennie, Marion and Findlay, Patricia and Corcoran, Emma Dunlop and Commander, Johanna and Lannigan, Norman (2015) Innovation in healthcare systems : a socio-technical perspective. In: 27th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXVII), 2015-07-12 - 2015-07-15, University of Strathclyde.

van der Meer, Robert and Lindsay, Colin and Bennie, Marion and Findlay, Patricia and Corcoran, Emma Dunlop and Commander, Johanna and Lannigan, Norman (2014) Impact of large-scale automation on healthcare staff. In: 21st EurOMA Conference: Operations Management in an Innovation Economy, 2014-06-20 - 2014-06-25, University of Palermo.

Commander, Johanna and Lindsay, Colin and Findlay, Patricia and Bennie, Marion and Corcoran, Emma Dunlop and Van Der Meer, Robert (2013) 'Lean', new technologies and employment in public health services : employees experiences in the National Health Service in Scotland. In: SASE 25th Annual Conference, 2013-06-27 - 2013-06-29. (Unpublished)

Book

Findlay, Patricia and Lindsay, Colin and McIntyre, Stuart and Roy, Graeme and Stewart, Robert and Dutton, Eli (2021) CIPD Good Work Index 2021 : UK Working Lives Survey. CIPD, London.

Report

Lindsay, Colin and Houston, Donald and Byrne, George and Stewart, Robert (2020) Matching people to jobs and hours : drivers and productivity impacts of under-employment. Productivity Insights Network (PIN), [s.l.].

Findlay, Patricia and Lindsay, Colin and Watson, Amy and Young, Doug (2019) Influencing Employers so More People Break Free from Poverty through Work. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Lindsay, Colin and Stewart, Robert and Findlay, Patricia and Maguire, Roma and Scholarios, Dora and McQuarrie, Johanna (2019) NHS Scotland Staff Experience and Continuous Improvement Model : Research into Implementation. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Findlay, Patricia and Stewart, Robert and Lindsay, Colin (2019) Review of Partnership Working in NHS Scotland. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Findlay, Patricia and Lindsay, Colin (2018) Influencing Business Models and Workplace Innovation to Deliver Inclusive Growth. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Cunningham, Ian and Roy, Chandrima and Lindsay, Colin (2015) The View from Here : People's experiences of working in social services: A qualitative analysis. Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services.

Findlay, Patricia and Chalmers, Dominic and Lindsay, Colin and MacBryde, Jillian and Matthews, Russell and Pascoe-Deslauriers, Rachelle and Wilson, James Russell (2015) Innovating Works... Improving Work & Workplaces : Workplace Innovation in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises in Scotland. Scottish Centre for Employment Research.

Findlay, Patricia and Commander, Johanna and Lindsay, Colin and Keep, Ewart and Wilde, Stephanie (2014) Work, Employment, Skills and Training : Where Next for Scotland? SKOPE, Oxford.

Bennie, Marion and Corcoran, Emma Dunlop and Findlay, Patricia and Commander, Johanna and Lindsay, Colin and Van Der Meer, Robert (2013) Impact of robotics-led organisational change on the pharmacy workforce - preliminary findings : report for the pharmacy & prescribing support unit, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

McQuaid, Ronald and Raeside, Robert and Canduela, Jesus and Egdell, Valerie and Lindsay, Colin (2012) Engaging low skilled employees in workplace learning : UK Commission for Employment and Skills Evidence Report no. 43. UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

Devins, David and Bickerstaffe, Tim and Nunn, Alex and Mitchell, Ben and McQuaid, Ronald and Egdell, Valerie and Lindsay, Colin (2011) The role of skills: from worklessness to sustainable employment with progression : UK Commission for Employment and Skills Evidence Report no. 38. UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

Johnson, Steve and Sawicki, Szymon and Pearson, Claire and Lindsay, Colin and McQuaid, Ronald and Dutton, Matthew (2009) Employee demand for skills: evidence and policy review : UK Commission for Employment and Skills Research Report no. 3. UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

Gore, Tony and Fothergill, Steve and Hollywood, Emma and Lindsay, Colin and Morgan, Kevin and Powell, Ryan and Upton, Stevie (2007) Coalfields and neighbouring cities : economic regeneration, labour markets and governance. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

McQuaid, Ronald and Greig, Malcolm and Lindsay, Colin (2006) Approaches to evaluation in community regeneration : Communities Scotland Research Report no. 76. Communities Scotland.

McQuaid, Ronald and Lindsay, Colin and Greig, Malcolm (2003) Wired for work? ICT and job seeking in rural areas. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Review

Lindsay, Colin (2022) [Book Review] : Distributed Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare: Theory, Evidence and Development, Elizabeth A. Curtis, Martin Beirne, John G. Cullen, Ruth Norway and Siobhan M. Corrigan: Open University Press, 2021. [Review]