Group members
The Perspectives on Work research group brings together researchers, from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Social Sciences & Law, other faculties within the University and within the wider community, with expertise in topics connected to work.
Group leads
Dr Katie Bales, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: asylum seekers and social policy; welfare state; labour law; socio-economic rights; political economy; cosmopolitanism; intersectionality.
Dr Gregory Schwartz, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: the effects of the transformations in global political economy on the nature of work, forms of labour organisation, the subjectivities of labour, the links between labour migration, gender and social reproduction, and the problem of management in the social organisation of work.
Group members
Prof Diego Acosta Arcarazo, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: migration law, labour law, free movement of workers, regional arrangements in Europe and South America.
Dr Pankhuri Agarwal, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: labour and work, gender, slavery, human trafficking, freedom, migration and mobility.
Prof Bridget Anderson, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: labour market flexibilities; citizenship rights; trafficking and modern day slavery; state enforcement and deportation.
Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: the impact of labour migration, national state power and gendered division of labour on work and employment practices.
Dr Katie Bales, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: asyslum seekers and social policy; welfare state; labour law; socio-economic rights; political economy; cosmopolitanism; intersectionality.
Prof John Beaverstock, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: transnational work; cross-border mobilities; global banking and professional service firms; international business travel in the contemporary global economy; transnational freelancing.
Dr Vanessa Beck, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: groups on the margins of the labour market or at the boundaries of work, i.e. the unemployed or underemployed, NEETs, older workers; employment biographies and transformations in the structure and requirements of work.
Prof Alan Bogg, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: Labour, employment and work laws; the worker-protective aspects of common law reasoning; freedom of association; common law fundemental rights; the role of criminalisation in work relations; and the future of the social democratic constitution.
Dr Egle Cesnulyte, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: political economy of development; gender; sexualities; African politics.
Dr Jennifer Collins, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: the interface between labour law regulation and criminal law interventions; exploitation of persons and how, if at all, crimal law might justifiably respond to it.
Dr Katie Cruz, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: feminist and Marxist theory; regulation of sex work; trafficking for sexual exploitation; 'free'/unfree labour; basic income; public law.
Dr Manoj Dias-Abey, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: labour law and migration; global value chains; temporary labour migration; legal mobilisation.
Dr Pier Luc Dupont Picard, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: anti-discrimination law and its impact on intergroup relations in the employment context and beyond; reproductive work and struggles around its recognition, renumeration and cultural dimensions.
Dr Jo Haynes, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: music industry work; race and diversity; cultural and creative industries work; digital/cultural entrepreneurship; the gig economy.
Prof Jeffrey Henderson, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: the sociology, politics and political economy of economic development; the development consequences of global production networks; the relation of economic governanceto inequality and poverty.
Prof Julie MacLeavy, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: governance of work/worklessness; work orientated welfare reform; gender divisions of work and care; economic restructuring and labour market change; neoliberalism.
Prof Morag McDermont, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: the role of advice agencies in supporting people with employment disputes; alternative working models for clients with employment and debt problems.
Prof Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: implications of national and transnational legal regulation for the temporary mobility of workers; proposals for changes to employment status in the UK responding to the evolution of the 'gig' economy.
Prof Julia O'Connell Davidson, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: modern slavery; slavery; migration; immigration detention; children and childhoods.
Prof Martin Parker, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: particular sorts of organisations (the circus, the worker co-op, Apollo space programme etc); ways of representing organising (art, cartoons, films); 'alternative' organisation (co-operatives, worker self-management, alternative finance); different ways of thinking about what 'organisation' means (angels, shipping containers, art galleries, outlaws).
Dr Maud Perrier, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: care workers' organizing including nannies, social reproduction theory, motherhood and maternal workers, socialist feminist movemenets in the UK, North America and Australia, neoliberalism.
Dr Gregory Schwartz, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: the effects of the transformations in global political economy on the nature of work, forms of labour organisation, the subjectivities of labour, the links between labour migration, gender and social reproduction, and the problem of management in the social organisation of work.
Dr Martin Sticker, Department of Philosophy
Research interests: universal basic income, exploitation, climate ethics.
Prof Andrew Sturdy, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: changes in the nature of managent control and work, the role of key agents such as management consultants, emerging ideas in transforming work agendas.
Dr Huw Thomas, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: International labour standards in a range of economic sectors; the impact of global production networks on labour governance and the role of international organisations.
Prof Peter Turnbull, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: social dumping in the transport sector; internationally mobile workers; regulatory changes; new business models; technology.
Dr Sheena Vachhani, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: embodiment, difference, ethics, identity and the feminine in organisation; critical approaches to the study of management and organisation.
Dr Alex Wood, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: economic sociology and the role of digital technology in shaping job quality and power relations at work.
Dr Alex Wood, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: economic sociology and the role of digital technology in shaping job quality and power relations at work.
Dr. Junko Yamashita, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: social and policy analysis of care and care work; welfare systems; intergenerational relations and gender.
Research interests: social and policy analysis of care and care work; welfare systems; intergenerational relations and gender.
Dr Lydia Medland, School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies
Research interests: global food politics; '5 a day' fruit and vegetables (see project here); agroecology; farming; migration; labour markets; UK, Europe, Mediterranean and North African regions.
Research interests: global food politics; '5 a day' fruit and vegetables (see project here); agroecology; farming; migration; labour markets; UK, Europe, Mediterranean and North African regions.