Doctoral Research
Current IRRU Doctoral Researchers and their topics
| Wafa Tumayhi | What are the barriers and enabling factors contributing to female labour force participation in the Saudi private sector |
| Yinqing Yu | Exploring job security and flexibility of platform economy workers in China |
Recently completed IRRU PhDs
| Duncan Adam | Flexible working arrangements in Britain: employer provision, employee take-up and associated outcomes for employers and employees |
| Rina Binte Muhammad Musta | An ageing workforce: implications for human resource management |
| Martin Brock | English and German apprenticeships: an evaluation of the key reasons for English failure and German success in apprenticeships |
| Seon Hwang | Asymmetric relationship between work-family conflict and guilt from the perspectives of intersectionality |
| Martin James † | An ethnography of managers' action |
| Joyce Mamode | The contribution of trade union equality reps to the workplace equality agenda |
| Joey Soehardjojo | A study of transnational and institutional factors in emerging market economy of Indonesi |
| Arianna Tassinari † | The decline of tripartite policy-making and the changing politics of labour market reforms under austerity in Southern Europe |
| Fuk Ying Tse | The politics of wage determination: a study of wage policies and their implementation in post-socialist China |
| Yiluyi Zeng | Support from socially close others and work meaningfulness: spousal emotional support and supervisor instrumental support |
† ESRC award
Postdoctoral opportunities
IRRU welcomes and supports applications to the post-doctoral/early career funding schemes of British Academy and the ESRC, and has a successful track record in securing funding from these schemes. IRRU will support the development of applications and provide the necessary co-funding.
If you are interested in applying please send an outline of your research proposal to the