Social science, Doctor of

Dr Daniel Bishop

• Workplace learning and employee development
• Informal learning at work
• Training and workplace learning in small organisations
• Initial and continuing development in the professions
• Staff development in schools, colleges and universities 

Dr Nikolaus Hammer

• International Human Resource Management
• Global Value Chains and Inter-Firm Relations
• Comparative Work and Employment Relations in Europe
• International Industrial Relations and Trade Unionism   

Dr Reka Plugor

• Transitions into and out of work (education, precarious employment, retirement, sick leave and maternity/paternity leave)
• (Higher education) student experience
• Employee experience and employee experience management
• MSP – the experiences of people in multiple status positions
• Labour turnover – particularly how it is affected by employee actions (i.e. working hours, overtime and absence)
• Qualitative methods and analysis
• Quantitative methods and analysis

Deborah Price

• Self and social identity

Eimer Sparham

• The relationship of National Culture and studying via Distance Learning
• High Performance Work Practices
• Women Breadwinners

Dr Katharine Venter

• Gender, Careers, and Work-Life Balance
• Parenting of Chronically Ill and Disabled Children
• Parent Carers in the Labour Market
• Learning and Skills Development in the Third Sector
• Learning and Skills in Chinese Enterprises
• Implications of National Culture for Learning and for Employment Practices 

Professor Stephen Wood

• Nature of High Involvement Management and Impact on Well-Being and Organisational Performance
• Teamworking among Software Engineers
• Staff Morale in Mental Health In-Patient Care
• Family-Friendly Management - Nature, Predictors of Use, and Performance Effects
• Work/Non-Work Conflict among Portfolio Workers
• Bullying at Work
• Job Design in Call Centres
• Social and Economic Challenges of Nanotechnology