Deadline: 30-Sep-21
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced the applications to investigate Changes in Working Lives and Power in the Workplace.
The opportunity is for UK-based individuals or research teams. You must be based at an approved university or independent research organisation. They encourage co-investigators from business, third sector or government organisations.
Themes
You must address at least one of these themes:
- managing working transitions
- Projects funded will explore how people navigate and manage transitions into, within and out of work over the course of their working lives taking into consideration any of the following sub-themes:
- Attitudes, motivations, and decisions that shape working lives
- Managing life-course transitions into, within and out of work
- High-level cross-cutting themes that are also within scope
- Projects funded will explore how people navigate and manage transitions into, within and out of work over the course of their working lives taking into consideration any of the following sub-themes:
- power and voice in a changing world of work
- Understanding contemporary dynamics of power and their implications
- Labour rights, labour organisation and labour voice
- High-level cross-cutting themes that are also within scope
Funding Information
The full economic cost of your project can be between £535,000 and £720,000. They’ll fund 80% of this.
What are they looking for?
- As part of its Transforming Working Lives (TWL) priority, ESRC is looking to fund a programme series of innovative and novel research projects across two overarching themes:
- managing working transitions
- power and voice in a changing world of work.
- Proposals should seek to make a significant scientific contribution with a view to addressing key policy and practice challenges. Findings should help to build the evidence base for effective future interventions in the areas under study.
- In particular, ESRC would like projects to:
- understand the empirical realities of contemporary transformations in work and working lives, the causal factors involved and the implications for individuals, businesses, practitioners and policymakers
- engender relevant, meaningful, and accessible change in policy and business practices to transform their working lives for the better.
Eligibility Criteria
- Principal investigators (PIs) must be based at a UK institution eligible for ESRC funding. That organisation will be responsible for submitting the grant application to UKRI.
- Collaborations beyond academia are encouraged, and co-investigators from business, third sector or government can be included in research proposals.
- International collaborations are permitted, but
- projects must focus predominantly on issues relevant to the UK, and
- any findings/recommendations must have a direct bearing on the UK context.
- Projects should be at least 50% social science.
- Successful projects should start in the first half of 2022.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/pre-announcement-investigate-changes-in-working-lives-and-power-in-the-workplace/