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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Alan Felstead is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences and health professions, with a particular emphasis on employment and welfare studies.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

The subfields related to their publications are:

  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Gender Studies

The key topics in their research encompass:

  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Labor Movements and Unions

Alan Felstead has published research in several notable venues, including:

  • Industrial Relations Journal
  • Dialogues in Human Geography
  • Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
  • Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • Information Technology and People

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • "Changing workplace geographies in the COVID-19 crisis", 2020, Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "HOMEWORKING IN THE UK: BEFORE AND DURING THE 2020 LOCKDOWN", 2020, Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
  • "Working Still Harder", 2021, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • "A flash in the pan or a permanent change? The growth of homeworking during the pandemic and its effect on employee productivity in the UK", 2021, Information Technology and People
  • "Unpredictable times: the extent, characteristics and correlates of insecure hours of work in Britain", 2020, Industrial Relations Journal

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Francis Green
  • Golo Henseke
  • Duncan Gallie
  • Darja Reuschke
  • Rhys Davies

Alan Felstead has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Assessing the growth of remote working and its consequences for effort, well‐being and work‐life balance

    Alan Felstead;Golo Henseke

  • Opportunities to work at home in the context of work‐life balance

    Alan Felstead;Nick Jewson;Annie Phizacklea;Sally Walters

  • Changing Places of Work

    Alan Felstead;Nick Jewson;Sally Walters

  • In Work, At Home: Towards an Understanding of Homeworking

    Alan Felstead;Nick Jewson

  • Skills at work in Britain, 1986 to 2006

    Alan Felstead;Duncan Gallie;Francis Green;Ying Zhou

  • Work skills in Britain, 1986-2001

    Alan Felstead;Duncan Gallie;Francis Green

  • Global trends in flexible labour

    Alan Felstead;Nick Jewson

  • Managerial control of employees working at home

    Alan Felstead;Nick Jewson;Sally Walters

  • The hidden face of job insecurity

    Duncan Gallie;Alan Felstead;Francis Green;Hande Inanc

  • Improving Working as Learning

    Alan Felstead;Alison Fuller;Nick Jewson;Lorna Unwin

  • Surveying the scene: learning metaphors, survey design and the workplace context

    Alan Felstead;Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin;David Norman Ashton

  • Job insecurity and the difficulty of regaining employment: an empirical study of unemployment expectations

    Francis Green;Alan Felstead;Brendan Burchell

  • The impact of training on labour mobility: Individual and firm-level evidence from Britain

    Francis Green;Alan Felstead;Ken Mayhew;Alan D. Pack

  • Changing Patterns of Task Discretion in Britain

    Duncan Gallie;Alan Felstead;Francis Green

  • The Corporate Paradox: Power and Control in the Business Franchise

    Alan Felstead

  • Employer Policies and Organizational Commitment in Britain 1992–97

    Duncan Gallie;Alan Felstead;Francis Green

  • Work skills in Britain

    David Ashton;Ben Davies;Alan Felstead;Francis Green

  • Teamwork, skill development and employee welfare

    Duncan Gallie;Ying Zhou;Alan Felstead;Francis Green

  • Estimating the determinants of supply of computing, problem‐solving, communication, social, and teamworking skills

    Francis Green;David Ashton;Alan Felstead

  • Creating and using knowledge : an analysis of the differentiated nature of workplace learning environments

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin;Alan Felstead;Nick Jewson

  • Skills at Work, 1986-2006

    A Felstead;D Gallie;F Green;Y Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorna Unwin
Lorna Unwin University College London
Duncan Gallie
Duncan Gallie University of Oxford
Alison Fuller
Alison Fuller University College London

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