Dear colleagues,
as PI of the ERC Starting Grant project SHARE “Seizing the Hybrid Areas
of work by Representing self-Employment
<https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-projects/share/>”,
I am inviting applications for the following PhD scholarship:
https://business.leeds.ac.uk/phd/funding-and-scholarships/
This scholarship is open to UK and EU fee rated applicants commencing
full-time PhD study within the Work and Employment Relations Division
<https://business.leeds.ac.uk/divisions/work-and-employment-relations-division/> of
Leeds University Business School starting on 1st October 2018. The PhD
researcher will also be associated with the Centre for Employment
Relations, Innovation and Change
<https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-centres/ceric/> (CERIC)
within Leeds University Business School.
*Number of awards:* 1
*Value of award: *A maintenance grant of approximately £20,000* per
annum (*subject to approval, the amount will be reviewed annually).
*Project information:* The research will be conducted within the ERC
Starting Grant project SHARE - Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by
Representing self-Employment
<https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-projects/share/>
The research project will explore from a socio-legal perspective the
ways in which solo self-employed workers engage with the various layers
of regulation that shape the framework of rights and obligations that
are relevant to them. The postgraduate researcher will have access to a
rich set of qualitative data generated through ethnographic studies
conducted within unions and solo self-employed associations in six
European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, the Netherlands
and United Kingdom). S/he will work in an interdisciplinary environment
and in close collaboration with the supervisory team and the other
members of the SHARE project.
*Supervisory team:*
- Dr Elizabeth Oliver
<https://business.leeds.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/elizabeth-oliver/> (main
supervisor), Work and Employment Relations Division, Leeds University
Business School
- Dr Annalisa Murgia
<https://business.leeds.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/annalisa-murgia/>,
Work and Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School
- Professor Iyiola Solanke
<http://www.law.leeds.ac.uk/people/staff/solanke/>, School of Law,
University of Leeds
Applicants with queries about this PhD project and scholarship
opportunity can contact Dr Elizabeth Oliver ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Dr Annalisa
Murgia ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) for further
information.
Please feel free to circulate the scholarship to your contacts/networks,
and apologies for any cross-posting.
Kind regards,
Annalisa
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Dr Annalisa Murgia
Associate Professor, Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change
Work and Employment Relations Division
26 Lyddon Terrace, Room 1.09
Leeds University Business School, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Phone +44 (0)113 343 8292
Recently published: Armano E., Bove A., Murgia A. (2017) (eds.)
Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods:
Subjectivities and Resistance, London, Routledge.
PI of the ERC Starting Grant project SHARE
https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-projects/share/
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