Postgraduate Research

To foster a stimulating and enriching academic environment, CWOS organises exciting events from regular weekly seminars featuring expert speakers, workshops and an Annual Conference dedicated to our PGRs.

Such events enable PGRs to establish networks with the academic community, scholarly networks as well as practitioners in their field and develop links that are connected with groundbreaking research in the field of OSHRM.

Our wide range of expert researchers pose imaginative and bold questions, challenging received wisdom and extending the frontiers of knowledge in critical work and organisations studies.

We offer a wide range of expertise as well as routes to PhD study, for example as a standard PhD , typically 3 years full time, or we offer part time study for those who are in work or wish to study over a longer period. We also offer the option of joining our four-year integrated PhD course that suits those who want to integrate research and language skills within their study.

Current projects

Our current research study projects are outlined below:

• Involved fathers: An exploration of work-family balance dynamics.
• Exploring Humanitarian Supply Chain Network Design in Response to Refugees’ Services Needs
• A Paradox Perspective on Corporate Sustainability and Green HRM: A Comparative, Cross-Industry, Case Study in Malaysia
• The Effects of Covid-19 on the gender pay gap in the UK Theatre Industry
• A Feminist Account of High-Risk Leisure Consumption
• Disability Inclusion at the workplace:An assessment of the role of Human Resource (HR) Practices in the Pakistani Context
• Models for end-user culture and mind-set changes for digital health transformation in the public hospitals in Saudi Arabia’
• Between discontent and contentedness: Resistance in contemporary low-skilled migrant labour
• Discrimination and sexual harassment in the legal profession
• Smart Learning: Critical engagement of e-learning stakeholders

Our expertise

The Centre for Work, Organisation and Society is home to academic experts and dedicated professionals at the forefront of cross-disciplinary research on work, society, and organisational life in a range of study contexts and geographical areas.

Sociology of work and Critical Organization studies; Leadership and organisational change; Gender, Sexuality and Organisations; Creativity and Innovation; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace; Wellbeing and Autonomy at work; Performance management; Social Justice and globally sustainable work; Alternative Organizations.

Through our breadth of topics, and with methodological expertise ranging from creative, qualitative, mixed and participatory methods, we pride ourselves in our exemplary research supervision experience, offering a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment for our PhD students, equipping them with theoretical, methodological and empirical tools and knowledge for cutting edging research that will advance knowledge, learning and society.

Past Postgraduate Research Projects

Our expertise over the years have enables students to research a broad range of topics.