Research Activities
Training and qualifications:
- CCSR's masters course in Social Research Methods and Statistics
- CCSR offers PhD supervision, with some financial support for eligible students.
- CCSR short courses.
Consultancy
We welcome enquiries for consultancies and many of our research themes have been supported by local and central government and other clients.
Contact:
kingsley.purdam@manchester.ac.uk
WERG is a research group based in the CCSR who engage in research on, or share an interest in, employment. Our training is cross-disciplinary though our research is predominantly empirical and quantitative. The group is currently convened by vanessa.gash@manchester.ac.uk.
Within the theme of employment we are interested in: the impact of globalisation on national employment structures, divisions of paid and unpaid labour, labour market transitions, earnings inequalities between socio-demographic groups and the quality of working life to name a few areas of interest.
The group includes both PhD students and staff and we meet at regular intervals to discuss recent research results, to propose future research projects and to share research problems.
Those currently involved in the group include: Tarani Chandola, Angela Dale, Wendy Olsen, Kingsley Purdam, Gindo Tampubolon, Vanessa Gash, Anthony Rafferty, Hayley Limmer, Pierre Walthery, Ewan Carr. In the management school we also have links with Damian Grimshaw, Hugo Figuerido, Andrew Timming. In Sociology Colette Fagan and Wendy Bottero are associated with our work, as is Marianne Sensier from the Dept. of Econmics. We also have external associates involved with our group: Andrew Milward.
Upcoming Event
Our next guest presenter will be Professor Lynn Prince Cooke, who will be presenting a paper entitled: Class versus Gender Equality?
Gender-Class Wage Gaps in Three Liberal Markets on the 13th of March 2012.
Current Research Areas
Workshop on the Gender Pay Gap
Past Research