Dr Sally Wright
Management School
Lecturer in Work & Employment


+44 114 222 3492
Full contact details
Management School
B057
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- 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
- Decent Work in Scotland, an Agenda-Setting Analysis. Journal of Social Policy, 50(1), 40-58.
- Financialisation and labour in the Australian commercial construction industry. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 28(4), 500-518.
Chapters
Reports
- The Platformisation of Work: Evidence from the JRC Algorithmic Management and Platform Work survey
- Upward convergence in working conditions
- The feasibility of developing a methodology for measuring the distance travelled and soft outcomes for long-term unemployed people participating in Active Labour Market Programmes
Theses / Dissertations
Working papers
- Decent Work in Scotland, an Agenda-Setting Analysis. 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:
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