Carrying the work burden of Covid-19: Meet the team
Tracey is an internationally recognised expert on class and gender inequalities, work-time, domestic work, work-life balance, underemployment, part-time jobs, financial hardship, and policies for equality.
Other current projects
Evaluating the work-life balance (WLB) framework, a pilot project to gain insights from Denmark a world leading work-life balanced society. Funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the project is interrogating and evaluating what 'work-life balance' means as a concept, and if/how it can be supported, via gaining insights from Denmark.
'Managing at the Margins: Women Making it Work in Precarious Times’, a 3 year project funded by the Australian Research Council. The project is led by Professor Lyn Craig and conducted with Dr Brendan Churchill and Dr Signe Ravn, all at the University of Melbourne.
‘Reconceptualising underemployment’. Funder: ISRF. A project to address afresh the interlinked topics of underemployment and unemployment, and progress knowledge of the economic world via developing innovative interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and designing appropriate investigative methodologies. With Vanessa Beck, Clare Lyonette, Vanesa Fuertes, Daiga Kamerade, Jo McBride and Andrew Smith.
Changing gendered and classed economic wellbeing amongst workers in Britain? Funder: British Academy Research Development Award. A project to explore the impact of post-recessionary economic changes on the economic wellbeing of women and men.
Clare is an internationally recognised expert in the multi-disciplinary analysis of gender and class at work, working time, domestic labour and care.
Other current projects
Identification of factors affecting successful outcomes in the DDU-GKY Indian skills programme for unemployed young people. Funded by ESRC. Project Start Date: 3/10/2018 - Project End Date: 02/10/2020.
Senior Non-Commissioned Officers and employment after leaving the UK Armed Forces. With Sally-Anne Barnes, David Owen and Erika Kispeter. Funded by Forces in Mind Trust. Project Start Date: 01/11/2018 - Project End Date: 31/10/2019.
What motivates employers to offer family-friendly policies? With Beate Baldauf. Funded by the Government Equalities Office. Project start date: 18/06/2018 - Project End Date: 25/06/2018.
Research on job quality and the purpose of work. With Chris Warhurst (PI) and Sally Wright. Funded by the CIPD. Project start date: 03/2017-06/ 2017.
Luis researches and advises on business ethics and sustainability, international regulatory compliance, and sustainability performance measurement and disclosure.
Other current projects
“Modern Slavery Risk in the Fisheries Sector in Chile: A Multistakeholder Risk Assessment” Research question: What is the likelihood that a worker in the Chilean fishing sector will be subjected to modern slavery or other forms of labour exploitation? This project is being developed in collaboration with the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham.
Dr Ruth Tarlo (Project Assistant)
Ruth is working on the literature review and providing administrative support to the project.
Other current projects
Developing publications from PhD thesis on “Social justice and the experiences of people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for paid work”.
Selected joint publications
Beck, V.; Fuertes, V,; Kamerade, D.; Lyonette, C.; Warren, T. (2020), "Working lives", in Life after Covid: Essays towards a Better Future, Bristol University Press.
Warren, T.; Lyonette, C. (2020), "Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part-time workers in the UK", British Journal of Sociology, Vol.71/2, pp. 382-402.
Warren, T.; Lyonette, C. (2018), "Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women?: re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ?great recession? in Britain", Work, Employment and Society, Vol.33(4), 747-767.
Partner Organisation
The project is in collaboration with the Women’s Budget Group, the leading independent organisation that deals with the impact of policy on women’s lives.
The project ‘Carrying the work burden of the Covid-19 pandemic: working class women in the UK’ is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to COVID-19 (Project ES/V009400/1).
The project ‘How is COVID-19 impacting women and men’s working lives in the UK?’ is funded by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), as part of the rapid funding call to use and enrich the data within the Data & Connectivity National Core Study (NCS) capability.
The ‘Understanding Society’ COVID-19 study is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Health Foundation. Fieldwork for the survey is carried out by Ipsos MORI and Kantar. Understanding Society is an initiative funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and various government departments, with scientific leadership by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. The research data are distributed by the UK Data Service.