Professor Patricia Findlay, Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER), has been awarded substantial funding for a research project on harnessing research and networks to deliver fair, innovative and transformative work (FITwork).
The FITwork research team will look at these issues in collaboration with policymakers, public agencies, employers, employees, unions and other stakeholders in Scotland. The FITwork project aligns aspects of the recent ‘Innovating Works’ project, which helped SMEs to explore the potential of workplace innovation, with longer standing SCER research on job quality and the research centre’s emerging activity around fair work.
Funding for the first year has come from Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Funding Council, with provisional plans to run the project for a further 4 years. The research will be a collaborative project involving colleagues at Strathclyde and also the University of Glasgow.
SCER is currently recruiting three doctoral researchers to join a growing research team investigating this area of workplace research with studentship funding from Skills Development Scotland alongside funding for a Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training on Workplace Innovation. Further information is available here.