2nd CORAL Late Summer School 02.10.2022 – 06.10.2022 – Open Call for 5 PhD Candidates

Ursula Huws is the director of Analytica Social and Economic Research, having retired from academia in 2021. She has been researching the economic and social impacts of technological change, the restructuring of employment and the changing international division of labour since the 1970s and is the editor of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Her most recent books are Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies, (Pluto, 2020) and Labour in Contemporary Capitalism: What Next?(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). With a PHD in Sociology from London Metropolitan University, she has previously been employed as Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire (2011-2021), Professor of International Labour Studies at London Metropolitan University (2005-2009), Associate Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies (1996-2004) and Senior Lecturer in Social Research Methods at the University of North London (1990-1996). She was also a Visiting Professor for one semester at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Canada (2005), a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada (2010) and a Visiting Professor at Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg, Germany (2009-2011). She has been carrying out pioneering theoretical, quantitative and qualitative research on the economic and social impacts of technological change, the restructuring of employment and the changing international division of labour for many years, with a particular focus on digitalisation, emerging labour market trends and new forms of work. She has extensive experience of designing and directing large international research projects. These include not only projects examining the restructuring of work and employment in the context of technological change (for example EC-funded projects such as SOWING (FP4), EMERGENCE, STILE and TOSCA (FP5) WORKS (FP6) and PLUS (H2020) but also projects focusing on research ethics, professional standards (e.g RESPECT (FP5) and ETICA FP7) and research methodology. She was commissioned by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living in Working Conditions to draw up guidelines for case study research, developing an influential conceptual framework for linking qualitative and quantitative research. From 2012 to 2016 she led the 30-country COST Action !S1202 on The Dynamics of Virtual Work, bringing together a large body of scholarship on digitalisation, work and employment, leading to a successful and still-growing book series. From 2015 to 2021 she studied the growth of platform labour in Europe, including surveys in 13 European countries and in-depth qualitative research, including participation in the H2020 PLUS (Platform Labour in Urban Settings) project. She provides consultancy to a number of organisations at national, European and Global levels. She has published widely, writing for policy, academic and popular audiences. Her work has appeared in translation inter alia in Chinese, Swedish, German, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Danish, Portuguese, Turkish, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Maharathi and Serbo-Croat. Her most recent books are Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age, (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2013), Labour in Contemporary Capitalism: What Next? (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policy (London,Pluto Press, 2020).