ADR UK is advancing policy-relevant research through providing funding for a number of PhD Studentships and Research Fellowships utilising their flagship datasets. This includes the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) linked with PAYE and Self-Assessment data from His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC), and the ASHE linked with Census 2011, each linked through the Wage and Employment Dynamics Project.
ADR UK Funded Fellowship Projects
Dr. Damian Whittard- Working towards a greener economy: Who, where and for whose benefit?
Dr. Damian Whittard
Dr. Damian Whittard is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of West England. His research will generate and test alternative measures of green jobs, applying these to better understand the earnings and career prospects of those working in them in England and Wales. Learn more about Damian’s work here.
Dr. Ezgi Kaya- Labour market performance and integration of immigrant workers.
Dr. Ezgi Kaya
Dr. Ezgi Kaya is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. Her project aims to provide new and high-quality evidence on the labour market performance and integration of immigrant workers in England and Wales. You can find out more about Ezgi’s project here.
Dr. Mimosa Distefano- Agglomeration Economies and Job to Job Mobility.
Dr. Mimosa Distefano
Dr. Mimosa Distefano is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. Her project studies how job opportunities for workers with different levels of formal education compare across areas, and the role of city size in affecting these opportunities. You can find out more about Mimosa’s project here.
Dr. Darja Reuschke- How employee jobs and self-employment are combined.
Dr. Darja Reuschke
Dr. Darja Reuschke is an Associate Professor in The Department of Strategy and International Business at The University of Birmingham. Her research concerns changes in local labour markets and new forms and locations of work and businesses that are emerging through new technologies, economic restructuring, crisis and social change. Darja uses ASHE-HMRC to explore multiple jobs and the mixing of employee jobs with self-employment. You can find out more about Darja’s project here.
Dr. Daniel Derbyshire- Exploring factors affecting the disability wage gap.
Dr. Kathryn Fair-Measuring inequality-driven skills gaps in the UK labour market.
Dr. Kathryn Fair
Dr. Kathryn Fair is a Senior Research Associate at The Alan Turing Institute. Her current work focuses on labour market dynamics and aims to move beyond classical economic models and methodologies to improve our understanding of how shocks to the economy impact labour mobility. Kathryn uses ASHE-Census 2011 to explore how hiring discrimination influences the types of skills that workers within the UK labour market have, and how this impacts outcomes for individuals and the economy. You can find out more about Kathryn’s project here.
ADR UK Funded PhD Projects
Yifan Ge-Women’s pension entitlements in the UK
Yifan Ge
Yifan Ge is a +3 PhD student in Gerontology at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Jane Falkingham. Yifan’s current research focuses on women’s pension entitlements in the UK, particularly for those born in the 1950s, and investigates how their entitlements vary by demographic and socio-economic characteristics. You can find out more about Yifan’s work here.
Phina Aha- The impact of early labour market experiences on wage progression and in-work poverty.
Phina Aha
Phina Aha is a 1+3 PhD student in Social Research at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Professor Peter Wright, Professor Jason Heyes and Dr. Bert Van Landeghem. Phina’s current research focusses on the impact of early labour market experiences on wage progression and in-work poverty. You can find out more about Phina’s work here.
Ramakrishnan Radhakrishnan- Employment journeys of people working in the community care sector.
Ramakrishnan Radhakrishnan
Ramakrishnan Radhakrishnan works as part of the The Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership at the University of Northumbria under the supervision of Prof. Peter McMeekin and Prof. John Wildman. Ramakrishnan’s current research focusses on employment journeys of people working in the community care sector. You can find out more about Ramakrishnan’s work here.