Keeping enough in reserve: the employment of hybrid citizen-soldiers and the Future Reserves 2020 programme.

陆军预备队、海上预备队和皇家辅助空军将大幅扩大，目的是发展英国武装部队的能力，以应对我们迈向21世纪时不断变化的安全环境的挑战。这项研究将提供一个严格的证据基础，以最大限度地提高这支新组建部队的作战效能。具体而言，它解决了与根据“2020年未来预备役”计划拟议的武装部队转型相关的一些关键挑战，其方式不仅确保预备役人员的同化，而且至关重要的是，他们的真正融合。为了做到这一点，研究将集中在预备役政策的武装部队和东道国社会之间的关系的后果，这意味着是一个士兵和公民身份和身份方面的平民，雇主如何看待和应对FR20计划，并最终，这种转变将成功的可能性。更详细地说，这项研究将调查什么样的平民技能最有可能对武装部队有吸引力，反之亦然，并深入研究成为预备役军人意味着什么。预备役军人如何谈判他们的参与和武装部队和平民工作场所之间的过渡？部署在战区，体验返回一个质量不同的平民环境，这意味着什么？这些转变对雇主有何影响？雇主如何才能更好地促进后备服务？解决这些问题和密切相关的问题是对武装部队预备队和武装部队提出的更广泛变革的一个组成部分，研究的目的是提供一个强有力的证据基础，为拟议的变革提供信息。研究将采用混合方法。在项目期间的两个时间点进行的大规模的后备役人员的定量调查将产生纵向数据的后备役人员的就业经验和态度。半结构化的采访与预备役人员的样本，与后续访谈，以产生一个纵向维度，将捕捉预备役人员的观点，他们的立场作为混合公民士兵作为未来储备2020年计划的进展，包括数据的平民就业模式。对不同雇主类型的抽样个案研究将产生关于雇主观点的数据，特别是劳动力队伍中后备役人员的管理。实证研究将在现有政策文件和相关文献的审查和分析中进行，包括审查其他国家背景下预备役人员转型的类似经验。一个项目咨询小组，包括国防部和武装部队的代表，负责根据未来储备2020计划进行变革，将确保随着研究的进展，防务界对项目的投入，并将促进更广泛的交流和使用有关的研究成果。研究结果将通过各种机制传播给国防、其他非学术和相关学术受众和读者，以促进研究的影响。产出将包括为高级军事人员举办一次专家讲习班，为决策者和从业人员总结主要研究结果的政策简报，相关时事和国防政策出版物中的简短期刊文章，以及同行评审的军事社会学、政治学、就业社会学和国际关系期刊中的学术期刊文章。 .

The Army Reserve, the Maritime Reserve and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force are to be significantly expanded in ways intended to develop the ability of the UK armed forces to meet the challenges of a constantly evolving security environment as we move forward into the 21st Century. This research will provide a rigorous evidence base with which to maximise the proposed transformation in ways that will enhance operational effectiveness of this newly configured force. Specifically, it addresses a number of key challenges associated with the proposed transformation of the armed forces under the Future Reserves 2020 programme, in ways that ensure not just the assimilation of reservists, but crucially, their genuine integration. In order to do so, the research will focus on the consequences of the reservist policy for the relationship between the armed forces and its host society, what it means to be both a soldier and a civilian in citizenship and identity terms, how employers both view and respond to the FR20 programme, and ultimately, the likelihood that such a transformation will succeed. In more detailed terms, the research will investigate what kinds of civilian held skills are most likely to be attractive to the armed forces and vice versa, as well as look in-depth at what it means to be a reservist. How do reservists negotiate their participation in and transitions between the armed forces and the civilian work-place? What does it mean to be deployed in an operational theatre for the experience of moving back to a qualitatively different civilian environment? How do these transitions impact on employers? How might employers be better placed to facilitate reserve service? Addressing these and closely allied questions is an integral aspect of the wider changes being proposed to the armed forces reserves and to the armed forces, and the intention of the research is to provide a robust evidence base to inform the proposed changes. The research will use a mixed-methods approach. A large-scale quantitative survey of reservists conducted at two time-points during the project will generate longitudinal data on reservist employment experiences and attitudes. Semi-structured interviews with a sample of reservists, with follow-up interviews to generate a longitudinal dimension, will capture reservist perspectives on their positions as hybrid citizen-soldiers as the Future Reserves 2020 programme progresses, including data on civilian employment patterns. Case studies of a sample of different employer types will generate data on employer perspectives, particularly the management of reservists within the labour force. The empirical research will be contextualised within reviews and analysis of existing policy documentation and relevant literatures, including a review of analogous experiences of reservist transformations in other national contexts.A project advisory group, including representatives from the Ministry of Defence and armed forces charged with making the changes under the Future Reserves 2020 programme, will ensure input into the project from the defence community as the research progresses, and will facilitate wider communication and use of relevant research findings. The research findings will be disseminated to a range of defence, other non-academic and relevant academic audiences and readerships using mechanisms to facilitate research impact. Outputs will include an expert workshop for senior military personnel, policy briefs summarising key research findings for policy-makers and practitioners, short journal pieces in relevant current affairs and defence policy publications, and academic journal articles in peer-reviewed military sociology, political science, employment sociology and international relations journals. .