Heather CONNOLLY est professeure des relations de travail et de l’emploi à Grenoble École de Management, où elle est en poste depuis 2020. Ses recherches portent sur les dynamiques de renouvellement syndical et sur la manière dont les syndicats en Europe contribuent à façonner leurs environnements institutionnels tout en étant eux-mêmes façonnés par ceux-ci.
Ses projets de recherche incluent un programme financé par l’Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) du Royaume-Uni (2021–2025) portant sur les politiques de l’égalité au travail, ainsi que le projet SyndiCARE, financé par l’Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) (2025–2028), consacré à la santé et au bien-être des représentants syndicaux.
Ses travaux ont été publiés sous forme d’ouvrages, de chapitres d’ouvrages collectifs, d’articles dans des revues académiques, de rapports de politique publique, ainsi que dans des médias de vulgarisation scientifique tels que The Conversation.
Elle est membre du comité éditorial de la European Journal of Industrial Relations.
Heather Connolly est titulaire d’un Master’s degree in European Industrial Relations (2001) et d’un PhD in Industrial and Business Studies (2008) de l’University of Warwick (Royaume-Uni). Elle a obtenu l’habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) en sciences de gestion en 2025 au sein de l’École doctorale Organisations, Marchés, Institutions, Paris-Est Sup.
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- Marino S., Connolly H., Martinez Lucio M., Smith H., 2026.Burning down the house: On the new wave literature on worker representation, and the case for the ‘space between’Work, Employment and Society: Online first
- Connolly H., Marino S., Martinez Lucio M., Schmid C., Smith H., 2025.Mind the gaps - the problems and politics of bibliographic analysis for comparative industrial relations research on workplace equalitiesEuropean Journal of Industrial relations: OnlineFirstThis article offers a critical reflection of the challenges of conducting bibliometric analysis in cross-national comparative industrial relations research on workplace equalities. Drawing on a scoping exercise designed to map equality research in the UK, France, Spain, and the Netherlands, we demonstrate how bibliometric methods struggle to capture situated knowledge and translate contested concepts across national contexts. While bibliometric approaches can offer useful insights when carefully deployed, uncritical applications risk producing ‘thin’ and decontextualised findings. We engage with debates on English Language Predominance, conceptual equivalence, and epistemological diversity, and argue for more reflexive, pluralistic, and ‘slow’ comparative research, sensitive to the socially constructed and locally situated language on equality at work.
- Connolly H., Béthoux E., Bourguignon R., Mias A., Tainturier P., de Becdelièvre P., 2025.Neoliberalism by stealth? Labour reforms and institutional discontinuity in worker representation in FranceEconomic and Industrial Democracy, 46, 2: 546–567
- Connolly H., Antoni A., 2025.Vested interests? Unions, the gilets jaunes movement and the bases for sustainable solidarityCapital and Class, 49, 4: 653-666In the 2010s, in response to the impact of the financial crisis of 2008, anti-establishment, anti-austerity, pro-democracy movements such as Occupy!, the Spanish indignados and, in 2018, the gilets jaunes in France emerged. With the rise of independent unions and new forms of work and organising in the platform economy, the future of unions increasingly depends on their ability to engage with a broader range of social and community-based interests and organisations. The gilets jaunes movement in France, like the indignados in Spain, explicitly rejected any links or joint actions with unions, at least initially and in a formal sense. The gilets jaunes case makes visible the challenges for unions, as institutions embedded and reinforcing the current configuration of capitalism, to represent a more fluid set of interests. On the flipside, the dissipation of these movements also makes visible the challenges for social movements maintaining collective action and solidarity without the leadership and organisation familiar in union organisations, and the meta-collective action frame of shared working-class interests. In this reflection, we revisit the gilets jaunes movement and its significance for building bases of sustainable solidarity at a time of the movement’s attempts to establish lasting forms of solidarity through gaining recognition in representative elections as the Union Syndicale Gilets Jaunes (USGJ).
- Connolly H., Martinez Lucio M., Marino S., Smith H., 2024.Labour’s plans for BME equal pay don’t go far enoughOnline
- Connolly H., Stewart P., 2024.Employment regulation as the warm house for neoliberalism? Comparing higher education in France and the UKWork Organisation Labour and Globalisation, 18, 1: 83-96
- Marino S., Martinez Lucio M., Connolly H., 2024.Trade unionsDans Research Handbook on Migration and Employment. Guglielmo Meardi Ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Connolly H., Looker G., 2024.Union renewal in the reregulation of UK local government: How the collapse of a county council led to the (re)assertion of union influenceEuropean Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
- Greene A.-M., Connolly H., Dean D., 2024.Reframing: A Feminist Reflection on Alan FoxEmployee Relations, 46, 6: 1346-1361
- Connolly H., 2024.Working with and learning from other social movementsDans The handbook of the past, present and future of labour unions. Gregor Gall Ed.: Agenda Publishing Ltd
