Building Sustainable Societies: Work Care and Global Transitions
- Funded by the University of Leeds
- Sue Yeandle (CIRCLE), Mark Stuart (CERIC) and members of CIRCLE and CERIC
The University of Leeds is currently making a number of major investments in areas of research where capacity is already strong, with the aim of providing significant additional support to achieve critical mass in key areas, to significantly enhance impact at the international scale, and to establish ground-breaking new studies.
In partnership with Professor Mark Stuart, Director of CERIC (the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change at Leeds University Business School), CIRCLE's Director, Professor Sue Yeandle, has been successful in the competition for this funding.
Together, CIRCLE and CERIC have been awarded 5 years' funding to establish the Work, Care and Global Transitions Programme. They will lead one of three substantive research hubs for this new investment, made via the University's Transformation Fund Project Building Sustainable Societies, which also has research hubs in Health and in Security and Justice, and is led by Professor Anne Kerr.
A series of new appointments to the Work, Care and Global Transitions Programme will be made, starting in autumn 2011, when a Principal Research Fellow (5 years fixed-term) will be appointed to work with Profs Stuart and Yeandle, and the first two (of six) Post-doctoral Research Fellows (two years fixed term) will be appointed.
The first of these posts will be advertised in spring/summer 2011, when further particulars will also be available for interested applicants. It is expected that additional post-doctoral appointments will also be made in 2012 and in 2013.