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Most qualitative research involves self-report – asking participants to share their thoughts, feelings, experiences and motivations in their own words (e.g. in an interview or focus group). In this short piece, we introduce a method that involves something radically different – fictional story writing where participants write a short story (of around – ideally – several hundr...

Since the 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) passed, companies with a turnover of £36 million or above have been obliged to produce an annual statement that details the steps they are taking to address the presence of exploitative practices within any part of their business operations or supply chains.

On the tenth anniversary of the implementation of the MSA, the governmen...

Labour market statistics have served governments and researchers well for decades. But they were designed to answer the ‘how many?’ question. They count the unemployed, the employed, those economically inactive. What they cannot answer is the more difficult and more consequential question: which workers are most at risk right now, and what can we do about it before it is too ...

Better data do not necessarily produce better knowledge. Time Use Surveys and an innovative sequence method, Dynamic Hamming Matching (DHM), have transformed our capacity to examine the organisation of work time in far greater detail, recording work hours across the day ...

Multiple job holding has generated a growing body of literature examining who is working in more than one job and why, especially whether it is due to constraints or opportunities. Hence, whether multiple job holding is regarded as a widespread or small-scale phenomenon in contemporary labour markets depends on how it is defined and measured, and th...