PhD in People, Work and Employment

The central objective of the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) is to contribute through high quality research, teaching and knowledge transfer to contemporary national and international debates around the changing dynamics and future of work, employment and labour markets.

CERIC is home to researchers that produce analytically rigorous research of genuine relevance.

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Research proposals
The People, Work and Employment Department within Leeds University Business School is interested in receiving proposals in the following areas of research:

– Between professions and precarity: the new world of work
– Changing structures of governance and organisation
– Employment, skills and occupations
– Labour mobility, migration and citizenship
– Markets, flexibilisation and social protection
– Voice, representation and social movement
– Digitalisation, automation, platformisation, and the future of work
– Inequalities within work, employment and employment relations