Post Doctoral Research Associate

An exciting new job opportunity to work in a European wide project on homeworking, flexible working and its outcome on workers’ well-being and inequality patterns. You will be working with Professor Heejung Chung in the King’s Business School for the Horizon 2020 TransEuroWorks project. This project aims to explore the role of policies and institutions in shaping the outcomes of workers’ well-being and political divides in the age of globalisation, migration, digitalisation and environmental changes. This work packages explores the outcomes of digitalisation of work, particularly with regards to how the rise of home and hybrid working will result in workers’ well-being and inequalities. This will be done through a cross-national experimental survey vignette study collected in 2024, and through a wide range of secondary data analyses using cross-national cross-sectional data such as the European Working Conditions Survey, European Labour Force Survey, and comparing longitudinal household panel data such as the Understanding Society data and German Household Panel data.

The Department of Human Resource Management & Employment Relations is a distinctive group of work and organisation scholars producing leading-edge research and offering essential insights with global impact. Our work is multi-disciplinary and innovative, spanning significant expertise in the fields of human resource management, organisational behaviour and employment relations. We continually strive to be globally recognised as one of the very top international groups of work and organisation scholars.

We generate and share knowledge, new ideas and alternative perspectives, driven by a purposeful intent to inform decision-making relating to work and employment by leaders and policy-makers in London, the UK, and internationally, thereby enhancing the quality of jobs for all and the effectiveness of organisations.

The role of the PDRA is to support and assist with the data analysis, write up and dissemination of some of the key tasks of the project. This includes the analysis and write up using the TransEuroWorks Survey data particularly on flexibility stigma perceptions of European workers, using an experimental vignette survey set up. The PDRA is also expected to use wide range of secondary data including, but not limited to, the European Working Conditions Survey. European Labour Force Survey, UK and German Household Panel data to examine the well-being outcomes of flexible working arrangements in a cross-national and longitudinal perspective.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Clean and analyse the TransEuroWorks survey data using experimental vignette survey approach on flexibility stigma
• Clean and analyse secondary data sources to examine the association between flexible working (home/hybrid working) and well-being outcomes – including but not limited to the European Working Conditions Survey, European Labour Force Survey, UK and German Household Panel Surveys
• Write up of papers based on the data analyses for journals, working papers, deliverables, and other outputs
• Support dissemination of results in academic and policy settings
• Support the promotion and dissemination of the project results in the public realm – support public engagement activities
• Provide other research activities related to the TransEuroWorks project as necessary
• Willingness and enthusiasm for collaborative work with the PI, the larger team of TransEuroWorks, and the wider department within KBS

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract of two years starting 1 October 2024 or another negotiated starting date. The project runs until 31 October 2026.

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