Isabel Tavora is a lecturer in Human Resource Management in Manchester Business School and a member of the European Work and Employment Research Centre and of the Fairness at Work Research Centre, both at the University of Manchester.
After completing her PhD at the University of Manchester in 2009, Isabel started her lecturing career in Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England where she worked until returning to Manchester in August of 2012.
Isabel’s research interests lie mainly on comparative employment policy and industrial relations, gender equality and work-family reconciliation. Since November 2013 she has been part of the coordinating team of a European Commission-funded project that investigated the impact of the recent recession on employment regulation and collective bargaining in manufacturing in seven European countries.