Reference number
  • BUI
Date
  • 1950-2010
Level
  • Collection
Description
  • This collection includes: minutes, reports and related papers; annual conference records; membership records; newsletters; registers of research; Central Arbitration Committee awards concerning industrial disputes.
Extent
  • 16 boxes (3 [MSS.52], 7 [700], 6 [761])
Admin history
  • The British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) was established in 1950 as the Inter-University Study Group in Industrial Relations. It changed its name to the University Industrial Relations Association in 1951, and adopted its current name in 1967. It exists to further the academic study of industrial relations. Reference: Cook, C and Wilder, D 'The Longman Guide to Sources in Contemporary British History, 1: Organisations and Societies' (London. Longman. 1994).
Appraisal
  • This collection has been weeded for duplicates and for some routine financial and administrative records.
Arrangement
  • The reference codes of these records have been determined either by a superseded catalogue arrangement or by their physical storage order. The codes are therefore not necessarily in order in the catalogue.
Access conditions
  • Written permission for access to unpublished BUIRA records is required from its current secretary or other officer. For details please contact the Modern Records Centre.
Access status
  • Open
Related material
  • Further papers from of the Association are in the care of the secretary. Papers include annual general meeting agenda and minutes; annual accounts; the secretary and treasurers' annual reports; records of office holders; the bi-annual newsletter.