• Precarious pathways to employment for young people? Unpaid, temporary and involuntary part-time work in transitions from education to employment. With Gaby Atfield, Peter Elias, Anne Green, Noel Whiteside, Phil Mizen (Aston University), Melanie Simms (University of Leicester), David Wilson (Open University). Funded by: ESRC, Project Start Date 01/01/2014 - Project End Date 31/12/2016 [detailsLink opens in a new window]
• Superannuation Flagship Cluster, with Professor Robert M Lindley, Institute for Employment Research, Mr Bernard H Casey - Institute for Employment Research Prof Noel Whiteside - Sociology, Funded by: CSIRO, Project Start Date: 01/07/2013 Project End Date: 30/06/2016
• Paths 2 Work - an interdisciplinary ESRC-funded study of transitions between education and employment in the midlands (UK), wth specific emphasis on the role played by internships, zero-hours contracts and other types of precarious work (PI Professor Kate Purcell)
• Superannuation Research Cluster (in collaboration with Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, funded by CSIRO, Australia): a project examining ways of improving efficiency and social justice in the world of funded pension systems (PI Professor Robert Lindley). This built on earlier research on changing pension systems in Europe under the FP7 programme GUSTO (PI Professor Colin Crouch)
• Income Protection Gaps - a global analysis of widening gaps in household income consequent on premature death / permanent disability of wage earners (at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)