WEO Research Seminar: Meet the Editor, Work and Employment: Dr Kendra Briken, University of Strathclyde
Event Date: 10 December 2025
Speaker: Dr Kendra Briken
Time: 10am-11.30 GMT
Location: For booking details, please email sbs-weo@strath.ac.uk
Abstract:
In this session, Dr Kendra Briken will give a brief presentation on the journal, before opening up for questions and discussion. Focused on the changing nature of work and employment and its relationship to technology and technological developments, New Technology, Work and Employment promotes enhanced analysis of the shifting contours of work and employment. The journal encourages a critical understanding of the multiple dimensions of technological change in the workplace, the labour market, and employment more generally.
The session will take the following shape:
- Background to editorial role and journal
- Trends and new emerging conversations
- Threshold issues and avoiding a desk reject
- Why of relevance to ECRs
- Q & A
- Summary and concluding remarks
The Meet the Editor series has four aims:
- To enhance knowledge on the latest changes and developments in publishing
- To give opportunity for SBS researchers to ask questions about research and publishing to those who make the decisions
- To strengthen links between SBS and a range of academic journals
- To demystify the publishing process for PGR researchers
Biography:
Kendra is a Senior Lecturer at the Dept for WEO. Prior to her appointment as Editor for New Technology, Work and Employment - Wiley Online Library, she was member of the editorial board for Work, Employment and Society: Sage Journals, and is on the board for Work in the Global Economy | Bristol University Press. Her most recent publication is a chapter contribution to the Handbook on the Sociology of Work, titled: Form Follows Function? The Twisted Encounters of Technology and Work.
Published: 18 November 2025
