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Email: j.parry@soton.ac.uk
Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)
Jane is an Associate Professor of Work and Employment at Southampton Business School. She is Director of the Centre for Work and Organisations and Deputy Head of Department for Research in the Department of HRM and Organisational Behaviour.
Jane is a sociologist of work and applied qualitative researcher, who has managed projects for a range of funding bodies and government departments over the past two decades, raising over a £1m in reserach revenue. Her research looks at how employment and careers are changing within different occupations, as well as how disadvantage operates within labour markets, with a particular focus on life course factors.
Jane came to an academic career from starting out as a researcher for Peter Hain PC. She is particularly concerned with producing impactful research, and involving policymakers and practitioners to ensure that that policy is continually informed by high-quality evidence. Her research on independent living was taken up by the Minister for Pensions to inform the then Link Age strategy, and she has run a roundtable at Portcullis House on flexible work sponsored by the Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions. She has worked for clients including the Health and Safety Executive, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, and, on many occasions, the DWP. She has recently sat on BEIS working group on The Future of Work. Jane is a former Parliamentary Academic Fellow for the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST), and is leading Work After Lockdown, a cross-institutional UKRI/ESRC project that has followed organisations and individuals negotiating change following COVID-19 driven working from home.