Dr Sally Wright
Management School
Lecturer in Work & Employment


+44 114 222 3492
Full contact details
Management School
B057
Sheffield ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý 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 ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Warwick. She has also worked as a Senior Research Analyst at the Workplace Research Centre in the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Sydney’s Business School and an Adjunct Lecturer in Employment Relations in the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý 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 ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý. Her thesis explored the topic of job quality. She constructed a multi-dimensional job quality index.
- Qualifications
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- PhD (Employment Research)- ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Warwick
- MIR&HRM - ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Sydney,
- BBus - ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý 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
Chapters
Reports
Theses / Dissertations
Working papers
- 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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