Dr Nicholas Martindale
BA/ MA, MSc, DPhill
Current positions
Lecturer in Management
School of Management - Business School
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Research interests
Nick's research focuses on Social Stratification and the Sociologies of Work and Education. His current major project investigates class-, migration-, and gender-based inequalities in elite and managerial occupations. Previous projects have investigated inequality, working conditions, and protest in the gig economy, as well as the consequences of the marketization of state education.
His research has been published in Socio-Economic Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, British Journal of Sociology of Education (Best Early Career Article Award), and New Technology, Work and Employment.
He holds a DPhil in Sociology from Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was also Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow. He completed an MSc in Political Sociology (LSE), and a BA in Politics (Cambridge).
Publications
Selected publications
13/08/2024What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want?
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Labour market digitalization and social class
Socio-economic Review
Austerity, outsourcing and the state school workforce
British Journal of Sociology of Education
Dynamics of contention in the gig economy
New Technology, Work and Employment
Vox Poetica
Journal of Educational Administration and History
Recent publications
13/08/2024What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want?
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Labour market digitalization and social class
Socio-economic Review
Vox Poetica
Journal of Educational Administration and History
Dynamics of contention in the gig economy
New Technology, Work and Employment
Austerity, outsourcing and the state school workforce
British Journal of Sociology of Education
Teaching
He is a qualified teacher (PGCE) with four years experience in South London comprehensives, and a qualified ESOL teacher (CELTA) with experience in Japan and South America.