Work Futures Research Centre (WFRC)

Description

The Work Futures Research Centre has been running since 2008 with the aim of supporting the production, dissemination and impact of research on work and its futures across the University of Southampton. The Centre is a multidisciplinary hub promoting research collaboration and knowledge exchange and enterprise to a range of internal and external audiences including students, academics and policy makers. It delivers leading expertise on labour market issues from digital labour to social care, new ways of working, employees on salaries, in precarious work and on complex contracts, and the self-employed and under-employed.

The Centre's research is the product of ongoing collaboration with funders and partners including the ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC, the British Academy, the Department for Work and Pensions and Acas. Based at the University of Southampton, it provides applied policy expertise on work and employment, covering issues such as job quality, healthy working lives, skills, workforce inequalities, entrepreneurship, migration, the creative economy, technology and AI, productivity, industrial relations, hybrid working, green jobs, workforce well-being and organisational belonging.

Currently active

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Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2009

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University of Southampton
Southampton