IER News & blogs

We would like to congratulate Dr Mariam Gbajumo- Sheriff, who has graduated from the IER Doctoral Programme and was awarded her PhD in Employment Research at the JUniversity of Warwick Degree Congregation in July 2017. Mariam's thesis "Does work-life balance have a cultural face: Understanding the work-life interface of Nigerian working mothers" can be viewed on the Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP). We wish her well on her return to her role as lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, University of Lagos.

The IER is also pleased to welcome two new full-time students, Bhaskar Chakravorty and Xiaotong Zhang onto the MPhil/PhD in Employment Research programme and our visiting student, Xue Han, who will be with us for 12 months on a British Council Newton Fund placement from the Beijing Institute of Technology.

Applications are now open for entry in October 2018. For further information see our webpage. PhD applicants who are interested in applying for a scholarship should look at:

Chancellor's International Scholarships for overseas students which is open for applications. Closing date: 19 January 2018.
ESRC Studentships for UK/EU students which will be open for applications shortly.