WPJ PhD Supervision

We are open to supervising research on topics related to or the intersections of well-being, performance, and justice, covering work, individuals, and organisations. We use a range of methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods.

Some example research topics include:

• Collective and individual performance-related pay (Wood)
• Home working, uncertainty, and well-being (Wood)
• The nature of high involvement management (Wood)
• Family-friendly management (Wood)
• Work-non-work conflict (Wood)
• Employee appraisal (Wood)
• Teamworking amongst software engineers (Wood)
• Health management (Wood)
• Staff morale in mental health in-patient care (Wood)
• Discrimination and aggression at work (Wood)
• The role of personality in relation to job performance and job satisfaction (Barratt)
• Inequality, equity, and meritocracy (Bartram; Karanika-Murray)
• Factors influencing well-being at work (Barratt)
• Developing bespoke selection and performance assessments (Barratt)
• International migration (Bartram)
• Subjective well-being, happiness, life-satisfaction (Bartram)
• International migration (Bartram)
• Entrepreneurial wellbeing and careers (Park)
• International entrepreneurship (Park)
• Trust in organisations (Costa)
• Applicant perspectives to digital technologies in selection (Costa)
• The interrelationship between well-being and performance (Karanika-Murray)
• Organisational maturity (Karanika-Murray)
• Ageing and work (Karanika-Murray)
• Organisational health interventions - implementation and evaluation (Karanika-Murray)
• Relationships between health and social care policy, practice and lived experience (Hughes)
• How patients and professionals navigate and negotiate healthcare (Hughes)
• Digital health (Hughes)
• Reducing sitting time and increasing physical activity (Edwardson)
• Impact of behaviour change of health, well-being and work-related and performance outcomes (Edwardson)

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