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Work Futures Research Centre (WFRC)

Our people

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

Dr Charlie Walker MA, MSocSci, PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Postsocialism
  • Masculinities
  • Care leavers

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: charlie.walker@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Daniel Ashton

Professor-Cultural & Creative Industries

Research interests

  • Work and the Creative Economy
  • Culture, Data and Place
  • Arts and Cultural Organisations

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: d.k.ashton@soton.ac.uk

Address: Satellite - Park Avenue, Winchester, SO23 8DL

Dr David Cross PhD, MSc, BA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Self-employment
  • Commitment
  • HR Profession

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: d.e.cross@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

Dr Donna Arrondelle

Research Fellow (DIGNIFIE Study)

Research interests

  • Her current research interests focus on contemporary imprisonment, working at the intersections of incarceration, dynamics of intimacy, and health justice.  
  • Research group memberships
  • Institute of Criminal Justice Research (ICJR) Members | Institute of Criminal Justice Research | University of Southampton 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Jane Parry

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Changing workplaces and occupations
  • Workforce inequalities
  • Flexible, remote and hybrid working

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.parry@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Jenny Fleming

Chair in Criminiology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.fleming@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Maria Villares-Varela

Associate Professor

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.villares-varela@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Michalis Veliziotis

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Trade unions and human resource management (HRM)
  • Quality of work
  • Labour market institutions

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.veliziotis@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

Professor Mina Beigi

Professor of Career Studies

Research interests

  • Work-nonwork interface
  • Understudied careers
  • Career success

Email: m.beigi@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Pauline Leonard BA Sociology,PGCE, MA(Ed), PhD, FAcSS, FRSA

Associate Dean Research & Enterprise

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: pauline.leonard@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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