Dr Sally Wright
Management School
Lecturer in Work & Employment
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- Profile
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Sally joined SUMS in July 2023 as Lecturer in Work & Employment in the Work, Employment & Organisation (WEO) teaching group. She is a member of the Centre for Decent Work (CDW) research group.
Prior to joining SUMS, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick. She has also worked as a Senior Research Analyst at the Workplace Research Centre in the University of Sydney’s Business School and an Adjunct Lecturer in Employment Relations in the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) School of Management. She has also worked for a trade union, in the civil service, and as a consultant in the vocational education and training (VET) sector.
Sally completed a PhD in Employment Research at Warwick University. Her thesis explored the topic of job quality. She constructed a multi-dimensional job quality index.
- Qualifications
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- PhD (Employment Research)- University of Warwick
- MIR&HRM - University of Sydney,
- BBus - University of Technology, Sydney
- Research interests
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Sally’s main research interests relate to employment and job quality, working conditions and employment regulation, the future of work, including the impact of technology on work, platform-mediated work, and skills.
Her current specific areas of interest are:
- Employment, job quality and decent work
- Working conditions and employment regulation
- The impact of digitalisation and new technologies on the future of jobs, tasks and skills.
- Platform-mediated (gig) work and ‘platformisation’ of regular work, with a focus the impact of algorithmic management, digital surveillance and AI on job quality and working conditions
- Low-paid and insecure work and working conditions
- Labour market restructuring and trends
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Journal of Social Policy, 50(1), 40-58.
- Innovations on a shoestring: Consequences for job quality of public service innovations in health and social care. European Journal of Workplace Innovation, 5(2), 4-30.
- . The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 28(4), 500-518.
Chapters
- Job Quality as a Lever for Organizational Innovation and the Role of Human Resource Management In Struminksa-Kutra M & Rok B (Ed.), Workplace Innovations: Between efficiency and the quality of working life (pp. 51-74). Warsaw: Poltext Publishing.
- Interacting skills: High road strategies for companies for digital transformation In Oeij P, Kirov V & Pomares E (Ed.), The Practical Side of Digital Transformation: A Tool Book for Practitioners (pp. 99-113). Sofia: Printing-office of Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
- Job Quality: A family affair In Warhurst C, Mathieu C & Dwyer R (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Job Quality (pp. 63-83).
- Understanding job quality using qualitative research In Warhurst C, Mathieu C & Dwyer R (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Job Quality (pp. 107-125).
- Vorsprung durch Technik: the future of work, digital technology and the politics of the platform economy In Creticos P, Bennett L, Owen L, Spirou C & Morphis-Riesbeck M (Ed.), The Many Futures of Work (pp. 179-195).
- What makes a good job for low-waged workers? In Dundon T & Wilkinson A (Ed.), Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management (pp. 166-171).
- Global Concept: Work In Wright S (Ed.), Core Body of Knowledge for the Generalist OHS Professional
- Workplace Innovation and the Quality of Working Life in an Age of Uberisation In Oeij P, Rus D & Pot F (Ed.), Workplace Innovation Theory, Research and Practice (pp. 245-260). Berlin: Springer Publishing.
- Current challenges in research job quality In Knox A & Warhurst C (Ed.), Job Quality: Perspectives, Problems and Proposals (pp. 15-36). Annandale, NSW: The Federation Press.
- Innovation, job quality and employment outcomes in care: Evidence from Hungary, the Netherlands and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 333-386).
- Innovation, Job Quality and Employment Outcomes in the Aerospace Industry: Evidence from France, Sweden and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment outcomes in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 35-87).
- Innovation, job quality and employment outcomes in care: Evidence from Hungary, the Netherlands and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 333-386).
- Innovation and job quality in the Games Industry in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 234-279).
- Innovation and job quality in the Games Industry in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 234-279).
Reports
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- Labour market information and an assessment of its applications: A series of international case studies
- Labour market and skills demand horizon scanning and future scenarios
- The role of parents and carers in providing careers guidance and how they can be better supported: Practice report
- The role of parents and carers in providing careers guidance and how they can be better supported: International evidence report
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- Understanding and measuring job quality. Part 2: Indicators of Job Quality
- Understanding and measuring job quality. Part 1: Thematic literature review
- Decent Work for Scotland's Low-Paid Workers: A Job to be done
- What makes for Decent Work? A study with low paid workers in Scotland. Initial Findings.
- Managing Individual Conflict in the Contemporary British Workplace
- Identification of latest trends and current developments in methods to profile jobseekers in European public employment services: Final report
Theses / Dissertations
- Conceptualising and operationalising job quality: Australia in focus.
Working papers
- BEYOND 4.0 Regional report: entrepreneurial ecosystems in six European countries: Analysis of incumbent and emerging ecosystems in Finland, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, and The Netherlands.
- BEYOND 4.0 Analysing the socio-economic consequences of the technological transformation.
- BEYOND 4.0 Understanding Future Skills: Requirements for Better Data.
- BEYOND 4.0 Understanding future skills and enriching the skills debate. Third Report..
- BEYOND 4.0 Frontrunner companies and the digital transformation: Strategies to deliver inclusive economic growth.
- BEYOND 4.0 Understanding future skills and enriching the skills debate: Second Report.
- BEYOND 4.0 Guidance paper on key concepts, issues and developments.
- Data evaluation report: An evaluation of the main EU datasets for analysing innovation, job quality and employment outcomes.
- . Journal of Social Policy, 50(1), 40-58.
- Research group
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- Centre for Decent Work (CDW)
- Teaching interests
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Sally’s approach to teaching and learning is theoretically-grounded yet research-led. She often adopts an international comparative approach to provide students with a critical understanding of work and employment. Through her teaching style, Sally encourages students to think critically through the use of case studies and student-led debates.
- Teaching activities
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She current teaches on the following modules:
- MGT6060 Human Resource Management (MBA) (Module Leader)
- MGT670 International Human Resource Studies (MSc)
- MGT226 Human Resource Management (BA Bus Mgt) (Module Leader)
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member CIPD
- Member BUIRA
- PhD Supervision
Sally is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:
- Job quality and decent work
- Working conditions and the regulation of employment
- Impact of technology on employment, work and skills and employment
- Platform-mediated (gig) work
- Precarious work and job insecurity
Dr Sally Wright supervises:
- PhD student Gwilym Evans