A5010037779- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Gender and Technology in Education
- Ethics in medical practice
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Architecture, Design, and Social History
- Risk Perception and Management
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Labor Movements and Unions
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
Edinburgh Napier University
2016-2025
Abstract The impact of an ageing workforce on the workplace is a concern internationally. Governments are increasingly encouraging continued labour market participation older workers, seeking to remove previous barriers extension working lives and give more choice workers. Despite these legislative drivers, research has consistently found lack systematic approaches by employers prepare benefit from demographic changes. In this paper, qualitative drawn upon examine how managers workers think...
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 led to a dramatic increase energy prices the United Kingdom. Chefs interviewed North East England were found already struggling with post-lockdown re-opening, now huge bills and food shortages as result war, then conditions record-breaking heatwave summer that year. This article conceptualises these experiences crisis energy: re-routing desire through consumerist system is open-ended war production heat – collapsing. It argued professional...
This paper critically examines the placement of people seeking asylum in temporary accommodation during COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on a 14-month collaborative ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2022 with individuals Glasgow. While moves to were framed by state authorities private firms as providing "safe environment" from COVID-19, we show how these relocations amounted racialised process which constructed our participants "undeserving" "unworthy" protection care period crisis. Our...
Information and communication technology (ICT) workers rarely join trade unions. This is usually explained by the individualized nature of work. article examines broader forms collectivism for these workers, drawing on survey interview data. The focus social class, attitudes towards unions professional bodies participation in ICT community – specifically Free, Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). findings reveal absence formal collective frames reference or organization, yet creativity,...
Purpose For many nations, their workforces are ageing. The purpose of this paper is to explore the concerns and attitudes employers employing older workers what information they require. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey workplaces was undertaken in Fife region Scotland, which economic demographic terms representative wider Scotland other nations Northern Europe. Descriptive analysis give insight into actions taken regarding ageing workforces. Findings Most perceive more...