Work Futures Research Centre (WFRC)

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Jelena Petrovic

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0665-6233)
  • AI as a leadership challenge
  • HR professional's contribution to board effectiveness 

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Professor Jenny Fleming

Chair in Criminiology

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Dr Joao V. Ferreira PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Behavioural and experimental economics
  • Public economics
  • Political economy

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Dr Joe Atkinson

Associate Professor of Employment Law

Research interests

  • Employment & Labour Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • Legal Theory

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Miss Leonora Amponsah-Asante MSc.

Research interests

  • Organisational behaviourProject Success and failureLeadership styleElectric VehiclesEntrepren…
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Dr Maria Villares-Varela

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Migrant entrepreneurship
  • Work and employment relation in small firms
  • Family businesses

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Dr Michalis Veliziotis

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Trade unions and HRM practices
  • Quality of work
  • Labour market institutions

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Professor Mina Beigi

Professor of Career Studies

Research interests

  • Work-nonwork interface
  • Understudied careers
  • Career success
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Professor Pauline Leonard BA Sociology,PGCE, MA(Ed), PhD, FAcSS, FRSA

Associate Dean Research & Enterprise

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Dr Rebecca Taylor

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Conceptualising work and the boundaries between paid and unpaid labour
  • Digital labour and work in the digital economy
  • Data, software and ethics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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