Biography
Dr. Scott Walsworth is an Associate Professor (Full Professor as of July 1, 2023) of Industrial Relations at the Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan. Before joining the University in 2007, he completed a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto. Most recently, he completed a Master of Law (LLM) in employment and labour law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He is the Academic Director of the Labour-Management Relations Certificate Program and the former president of the national Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA) and the current director of the Saskatoon Chapter of CIRA. In 2019, he began a four-year term as the Chair of the Educational Relations Board, a position created by the Saskatchewan Education Act to oversee labour relations between the province and its 17,000 teachers. Since 2020, Scott has worked as a labour arbitrator, adjudicating cases in the healthcare, public and private sectors. He was the principal investigator on a prestigious three-year Standard Research Grant from SSHRC. With these funds, he investigated how, and under what circumstances, unions affect management decisions and firm outcomes, such as innovation, profits and employment growth. His work is published in several top journals including Industrial Relations (Berkeley), Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. He teaches courses on human resources, industrial relations, and labour and employment law. He muddles through life in the company of a lovely wife, four energetic sons, and two lazy cats.
Recent Publications
Peetz, David, Alison Preston, Scott Walsworth, and Johanna Weststar. 2023. "Covid-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children." Studies in Higher Education: 1-12.
Robinson, Oral, Kara Somerville, and Scott Walsworth. 2023. "Building, negotiating and sustaining transnational social networks: Narratives of international students' migration decisions in Canada." Global Networks.
Peetz, David, Marian Baird, Rupa Banerjee, Tim Bartkiw, Shelagh Campbell, Sara Charlesworth, Amanda Coles, Rae Cooper, Jason Foster, Natalie Galea, Barbara de la Harpe, Catherine Leighton, Bernadette Lynch, Kelly Pike, Amanda Pyman, Ioana Ramia, Susan Ressia, Mojan Naisani Samani, Kim Southey, Glenda Strachan, March To, Carolyn Troup, Scott Walsworth, Shalene Werth and Johanna Weststar (25 authors). 2022. Sustained knowledge work and thinking time amongst academics: gender and working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Labour and Industry, 32(1), 72-92.
Foster, Jason, Mojan Samani, Shelagh Campbell and Scott Walsworth. 2022. Newbies vs. old-timers: university workers’ differential experiences of working from home during COVID-19. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 33, 11-21.
Walsworth, Scott. 2021. Prohibiting the use of recreational cannabis by safety-sensitive workers in Canada: a legal evaluation of the new workplace policies. Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 76(4), 659-683.
Walsworth, Scott, Kara Somerville and Oral Robinson. 2021. The importance of weak friendships for international student satisfaction: empirical evidence from Canada. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 80, 134-146.
Oral Robinson, Kara Somerville and Scott Walsworth. 2020. Understanding friendship formation between international and host-national students in a Canadian university. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 13(1), 49-70.