Dr Sally Wright

Management School

Lecturer in Work & Employment

Sally Wright.
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Dr Sally Wright
Management School
B057
Sheffield 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
Profile

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 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Warwick. She has also worked as a Senior Research Analyst at the Workplace Research Centre in the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sydney’s Business School and an Adjunct Lecturer in Employment Relations in the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ 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 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ. Her thesis explored the topic of job quality. She constructed a multi-dimensional job quality index.

Qualifications
  • PhD (Employment Research)- 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Warwick
  • MIR&HRM - 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sydney,
  • BBus - 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Technology, Sydney
Research interests

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

Journal articles

  • PAUTZ H, WRIGHT SA & COLLINS C (2021) . Journal of Social Policy, 50(1), 40-58. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Mathieu C, Boethius S & Green A (2020) Innovations on a shoestring: Consequences for job quality of public service innovations in health and social care. European Journal of Workplace Innovation, 5(2), 4-30. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bryan D, Rafferty M, Toner P & Wright S (2017) . The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 28(4), 500-518. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Mathieu C, Warhurst C & Wright S (2024) Job Quality as a Lever for Organizational Innovation and the Role of Human Resource Management In Struminksa-Kutra M & Rok B (Ed.), Workplace Innovations: Between efficiency and the quality of working life (pp. 51-74). Warsaw: Poltext Publishing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Barnes S-A, Behrend C, Kohlgruber M & Gotting A (2023) Interacting skills: High road strategies for companies for digital transformation In Oeij P, Kirov V & Pomares E (Ed.), The Practical Side of Digital Transformation: A Tool Book for Practitioners (pp. 99-113). Sofia: Printing-office of Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Warhurst C & Mathieu C (2022) Job Quality: A family affair In Warhurst C, Mathieu C & Dwyer R (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Job Quality (pp. 63-83). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S & Knox A (2022) Understanding job quality using qualitative research In Warhurst C, Mathieu C & Dwyer R (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Job Quality (pp. 107-125). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Warhurst C & Mathieu C (2021) Vorsprung durch Technik: the future of work, digital technology and the politics of the platform economy In Creticos P, Bennett L, Owen L, Spirou C & Morphis-Riesbeck M (Ed.), The Many Futures of Work (pp. 179-195). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S & Warhurst C (2020) What makes a good job for low-waged workers? In Dundon T & Wilkinson A (Ed.), Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management (pp. 166-171). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S & Rafferty M (2019) Global Concept: Work In Wright S (Ed.), Core Body of Knowledge for the Generalist OHS Professional RIS download Bibtex download
  • Warhurst C, Mathieu C & Wright S (2017) Workplace Innovation and the Quality of Working Life in an Age of Uberisation In Oeij P, Rus D & Pot F (Ed.), Workplace Innovation Theory, Research and Practice (pp. 245-260). Berlin: Springer Publishing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S (2015) Current challenges in research job quality In Knox A & Warhurst C (Ed.), Job Quality: Perspectives, Problems and Proposals (pp. 15-36). Annandale, NSW: The Federation Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green A, Illessy M, Mako C & Wright S () Innovation, job quality and employment outcomes in care: Evidence from Hungary, the Netherlands and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 333-386). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gautie J, Ahlstrand R, Green A, Wright S & Wright S () Innovation, Job Quality and Employment Outcomes in the Aerospace Industry: Evidence from France, Sweden and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment outcomes in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 35-87). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green A, Illessy M, Mako C & Wright S () Innovation, job quality and employment outcomes in care: Evidence from Hungary, the Netherlands and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 333-386). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S () Innovation and job quality in the Games Industry in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 234-279). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keune M, Payton N, Been W, Green A, Mathieu C, Postels D, Rehnstrom F, Warhurst C & Wright S () Innovation and job quality in the Games Industry in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK In Jaehrling K (Ed.), Virtous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public sector (pp. 234-279). RIS download Bibtex download

Reports

  • Macias-Fernandez E, Urzi Brancati C, Wright S & Pesole A (2023) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Barnes S-A, Hogarth T, Wright S & Cardenos-Rubio J (2023) Labour market information and an assessment of its applications: A series of international case studies RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Dunkerley F, Bruckmayer M, Flemons L, Virdee M, Hofman J, Virdee M, Wright S & Hogarth T (2022) Labour market and skills demand horizon scanning and future scenarios RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barnes S-A, Bimrose J, Brown A, Gough J & Wright S (2020) The role of parents and carers in providing careers guidance and how they can be better supported: Practice report RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barnes S-A, Bimrose J, Brown A, Gough J & Wright S (2020) The role of parents and carers in providing careers guidance and how they can be better supported: International evidence report RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Warhurst C, Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente R, Antón Pérez JI, Rafael Grande Martín R, Pinto Hernández F & Wright S (2019) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barnes S & Wright S (2019) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Warhurst C, Lyonette C & Sarkar S (2018) Understanding and measuring job quality. Part 2: Indicators of Job Quality RIS download Bibtex download
  • Warhurst C, Wright S & Lyonette C (2017) Understanding and measuring job quality. Part 1: Thematic literature review RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stuart F, Pautz H & Wright S (2016) Decent Work for Scotland's Low-Paid Workers: A Job to be done RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Stuart F, Pautz H & Wright S (2016) What makes for Decent Work? A study with low paid workers in Scotland. Initial Findings. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Saundry R, Adam D, Ashman I, Forde C, Wibberley G & Wright S (2016) Managing Individual Conflict in the Contemporary British Workplace RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barnes S-A, Wright S, Irving P & Deganis I (2015) Identification of latest trends and current developments in methods to profile jobseekers in European public employment services: Final report RIS download Bibtex download

Theses / Dissertations

  • Wright S (2019) Conceptualising and operationalising job quality: Australia in focus. RIS download Bibtex download

Working papers

  • Dhondt S, Dekker R, van Bree T, Hulsegge G, Oeij P, Barnes S-A, Götting A, Kangas O, Karonen E, Pomares E , Unceta A et al () BEYOND 4.0 Regional report: entrepreneurial ecosystems in six European countries: Analysis of incumbent and emerging ecosystems in Finland, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, and The Netherlands. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Greenan N, Napolitano S, Bachelot M, Bensalem R, Curci Y, Behrend C, Cuypers M, Douwes M, Eekhout I, Erhel C , Guergoat-Larivière M et al () BEYOND 4.0 Analysing the socio-economic consequences of the technological transformation. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wright S, Behrend C, Cuypers M, Kohlgruber M & Gotting A () BEYOND 4.0 Understanding Future Skills: Requirements for Better Data. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Behrend C, Götting A, Kohlgrüber M, Pomares E & Wright S () BEYOND 4.0 Understanding future skills and enriching the skills debate. Third Report.. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Oeji P, Dhondt S, Hulsegge G, Kirov V, Pomares E, Barnes S-A, Götting A, Behrend C, Kangas O, Karonen E , Kohlgrüber M et al () BEYOND 4.0 Frontrunner companies and the digital transformation: Strategies to deliver inclusive economic growth. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kohlgrüber M, Behrend C, Götting A, Cuypers M, Warhurst C & Wright S () BEYOND 4.0 Understanding future skills and enriching the skills debate: Second Report. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Warhurst C, Barnes S-A & Wright S () BEYOND 4.0 Guidance paper on key concepts, issues and developments. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Warhurst C, Erhel C, Gallie D, Geurgoat-Lariviere M, Munoz de Bustillo R, Obersneider M, Postels D, Sarkar S & Wright S () Data evaluation report: An evaluation of the main EU datasets for analysing innovation, job quality and employment outcomes. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group
  • Centre for Decent Work (CDW)
Teaching interests

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

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
  • 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

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