Jacqueline O'Reilly

Dr. Jacqueline O'Reilly is a Consultant at Center for International Policy Exchanges.
She is a Professor of Comparative Human Resource Management at the University of Sussex and a Research Coordinator of a large-scale EU-funded project on Youth Employment in Europe: STYLE.
Dr. O'Reilly taught courses in British Politics at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, in Paris (1989 - 1990), and for Stanford University (1988).
On completing her D.Phil, she worked for a year as a researcher at the University of Manchester School of Management, (UMIST) (1991 - 1992) on a project looking at the use of IT by financial advisors in the UK.
She was appointed a lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at Royal Holloway School of Management, London University (1992 -1994).
During this time, Dr. O'Reilly collaborated on the London University external BSc.
(Econ.) degree in Management run from the London School of Economics.
As part of this collaboration, she also taught at the Singapore School of Management (1993).
During a summer research visit to Berlin funded by a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) grant, she worked as a senior research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) (Social Science Research Centre) where she remained for ten years (1994 - 2004).
During this time, Dr. O'Reilly ran a number of large-scale European and international research projects examining the impact of labour market policy and employment transitions.
She returned to the UK in 2004 to become a Reader in Sociology at the University of Sussex, and moved to take a chair at Brighton Business School in October 2008, where they established the Centre for Research on Management and Employment (CROME) in 2010.
She returned to BMEc in April 2017.
She completed her doctorate in Economic Sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1992 and her first degree in Politics at the University of Hull in 1986.