Postgraduate students benefit from personally tailored supervisory boards and a thriving and supportive research culture, indicated by the Research Seminar Series in which major international figures give papers, the Professional Seminar Series which focuses on helping students to develop an academic career, and various other study groups.
Current doctoral student members of the Work, Employment and Economic Life cluster are undertaking research in the following areas:
- Occupational identity in the Fire Service
- Craftwork
- Youth volunteering
- Work identity and the benefits system
- Young workers as NEETS
- Labour market dualisation in the UK
- Gender segregation in the labour market