Working Lives Research Institute
Dr Tim Strangleman, Dr Chris Wall, Dr John Kirk, Dr Jane Martin and Professor Steve Jefferys
February 2005 - January 2008
Tim Strangleman and Steve Jefferys from Working Lives along with Jane Martin from Education at London Metropolitan University have won funding for a major three-year research project from the Economic and Social Research Council under its Identities and Social Action programme. The project, ‘Does work still shape social identities and action?’, was one of 25 successful applications from an initial 330 bids. The study questions the extent to which employment has and still does shape identity formation and acts to inform social action.
The project combines theoretical and methodological innovation with detail
empirical research. It will be based on extensive study of three occupational
groups - teachers, bank workers and railway labour- in four periods going
back to the early 20th century and will also develop theoretical analysis
of work identity and meaning more generally. The project started in early
2005 and has recruited two research fellows, Chris Wall and John Kirk.
Further details of the project can be found at:
http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/identities/abstracts/strangleman.pdf
More details of the Identities and Social Action programme can be found at www.identities.org.uk
16th July 2008