Social science, Doctor of

Dr Daniel Dan 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

Mr Paul Brook

• Emotional Labour and Emotion Work
• Labour Process Analysis
• Medical Labour Process and Clinical Work
• Service Work
• Service Worker Trade Unionism 

Paul Conville

• Institutional change in capitalist systems
• Social theories of Bourdieu and Boltanski
• Language (especially definition) as an organising practice

Dr Anne-Marie Greene

• Diversity practitioners
• Faith workers and clergy
• Work with a calling or mission
• Volunteering and management in the voluntary sector
• Trade union organisation

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 Marti Lopez-Andreau

• Trajectories and careers (transitions, promotions, etc.)
• Changes in employment regulation institutions
• Industrial relations, including union practices and emerging forms of protest/collective action at workplace level
• Precarious work, precarious workers and insecurity in the workplace
• Life-course analysis
• Mix-methods designs

Professor Peter Nolan

• Ageing in the Workplace
• Industrial Relations
• Inter-generational conflict at Work
• Labour Markets and Economic Performance

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

Dr Glynne Williams

• Employment/Industrial Relations, in particular:
• Industrial Relations in Multinational Companies
• Outsourcing
• Public Sector Restructuring
• Role and Implications of ‘Social Enterprise

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