Christine Lewis

Christine Lewis is a national officer in Unison’s Education and Children’s Services section and leads on further education and school meals. She was previously a policy officer and a librarian in the NHS; and is now studying for a PhD in social policy at Brighton University.

John Medhurst

John Medhurst

John Medhurst is a Policy Officer with the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS). Prior to this he was a civil servant for 22 years and a CPSA/PCS lay activist in Jobcentre Plus, HSE and DCMS. He was HSE London HQ Branch Secretary, DCMS National Branch Chair, and a member of the PCS National Executive Committee. He is PCS representative on the EPSU Public Services Network and has been published in the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER).

John Mills

John Mills is an economist, Labour Party Councillor for Camden, Vice-Chairman of the Economic Research Council, Chairman of the People's Pledge Campaign for a referendum on Britain's EU membership and Founder Chairman of the JML Group.

Janet Newsham

Janet Newsham

Janet currently works for UCU on the Women Moving Further Reaching Higher project. She has been a trade union activist for over 30 years in TASS/MSF/UNITE and UCU, and in the broader trade union movement. She started work at BAe and was outsourced to CSC. After a career break she moved into TUC Education delivering reps' training for over 10 years and has also sat on Employment Tribunals as a lay member since 1995.

Nerys Owen

Nerys works as a legal researcher for the Labour Research Department. She has written guides for union reps on a variety of topics including redundancy law, contracts of employment, TUPE and discipline and grievance procedures. She also gets involved in research and writing projects for unions from time to time.

Jeremias Prassl

Jeremias Prassl

Jeremias Prassl is a Teaching Fellow at Oxford University specialising in corporate law and finance, employment law and European Union law.

Corporate Law and Finance, Employment Law, European Union Law