Potential PhD supervisors
The following members of IER's academic staff are keen to supervise PhDs in a range of subjects. The research interests of staff are listed to provide an overview of the subjects and techniques they would be interested in supervising at a postgraduate level.
Find out about our current doctoral students here.
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Dr Sally Wright IER Director of Graduate Studies Research interests: job quality; working time arrangements; pay equity; executive remuneration; workplace health and safety; restructuring; retirement and superannuation; work-life balance Research methodology: interlinked quantitative and qualitative methods |
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Professor Chris Warhurst, IER Director Research interests: labour market and labour process developments, trends and issues. Interested in supervising doctorate and masters research degrees in job quality, skills and aesthetic labour Research methodology: interlinked quantitative and qualitative methods |
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Research interests: analysis of labour market and demographic change using large data sets; population change and migration Research methodology: quantitative methods, statistical analysis and spatial data analysis |
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Research interests: differential access to the labour market and the relationship between employment and social inclusion/exclusion; work, welfare and public policy, particularly participation of disadvantaged groups in active labour market programmes; education and employment as vehicles for social mobility; Social capital, social networks and integration, especially of migrants. Research methodology: interlinked quantitative and qualitative methods |
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Research interests: local labour market skills and their intersection with productivity and inclusive growth Research methodology: qualitative methods |
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Research interests: working and volunteering in later life and the impact of the fuller working lives agenda on employment, training and career development; skills development and career progression of apprentices and graduates; health and social care labour markets Research methodology: qualitative methods |
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Research interests: the inter-relationship between vocational education and training provision with the labour market, skills mismatches, investments in education and training, technological change and skills demand, effective delivery of apprenticeships, the future of work Research methodology: interlinked quantitative and qualitative methods |
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Research interests: analysis of big data sources for labour market analysis; development of labour market information for practice and policy; skill shortages identification and labour market forecasting Research methodology: quantitative methods, big data techniques |
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Political scientist with expertise in public policies, regulation of labour, and comparative research. Research interests: focusses on social public procurement and the use of public procurement as a tool for the regulation of labour as well domestically as in global supply chains, equality, and public services. Research methodology: qualitative methods. |
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Research Interests: migration and migrant labour, job quality, low wage work, equity in the labour market, and community labour partnerships. Research Methodology: qualitative research |
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Research interests: survey methodology, administrative data, non-response, measurement error, missing data, mixed-mode data collection, experimental design, data integration, data confidentiality and ethics, small area estimation, occupation coding, data science, web surveys, surveying sensitive topics, longitudinal studies, digital behavioural data, cross-cultural research, social research methods Applied interests: labour market research, public opinion, health and wellbeing, education, crime, social policy, social inequalities, COVID-19. Research methodology: Bayesian methods, causal inference, structural equation modelling, machine learning, multilevel modelling, multiple imputation, record linkage, weighting |
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