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Staff Profile

Dr Martí Lopez Andreu

Senior Lecturer in HRM and Employment Relations

Background

I am a Senior Lecturer in HRM and Employment Relations. I hold Lecturer positions at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Huddersfield, the University of Leicester and the University of Manchester before joining Newcastle University.

My research interests are in the field of the sociology of work, employment relations and labour studies. I have a special interest in precarity and insecurity at work, trends in employment relations, new dynamics in working lives, and emerging forms of labour organisation. My research has a strong comparative approach and it has been funded by the European Commission, the British Academy and the Director of Labour Market Enforcement, among others.

I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research

My areas of interest include:

  • Changes in employment regulation institutions and the impact of neo-liberal policies.
  • Industrial relations, including union practices and emerging forms of protest/collective action.
  • Precarious work, precarious workers and insecurity in the workplace.


Research projects (funded):

  • 'Understanding the impact of ‘bogus’ self-employment in working lives during and after COVID-19', Faculty Research Fund, University of Newcastle Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, March-September 2023, PI.
  • 'Trade Union Leadership and Political Change: Spain 1960s-2018',School Research Fund, Alliance Manchester Business School, Co-I.
  • 'The price of bogus self-employment: Analysing the impact of the individualisation of risks on working lives', BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants 2017-18 Round, May 2018-May 2021, PI.
  • 'The impact of the individualisation of resources on the self-employed', College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Research Fund, University of Leicester, PI
  • ‘The fissuring of the Employment relationship in the Hotel industry’, Director of Labour Market Enforcement (BEIS), 09/2018-12/2018., PI
  • 'Gender pay-gap as a multidimensional phenomenon. Analysis of the institutional, organisational and cultural barriers' (La brecha salarial como fenómeno multidimensional. Análisis de barreras institucionales, organizacionales y culturales), Recercaixa Program, 15/02/2016-15/02/18. Co-Investigator, PI: Pilar Carrasquer (UAB), Co-I
  • 'Lost in transition: Employment insecurity and its effects in younger adult’s life courses in times of austerity in the UK and Spain', Beatriu de Pinós Fellowhsip (Marie Curie Cofund, contract number 600385), 7th Framework programme, European Commission - Government of Catalonia, October 2015-October, PI.
  • Labour trajectories in UK and Spain. Analysis of capabilities in transitions using a mixed-method approach (TRANSICAP), Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship, 7th Framework programme, European Commission, ref. FP7-328223, May 2013-May 2015, PI (supervisor: Prof. Jill Rubery)., PI


Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising research students on projects related to my areas of interest. Current PhD students:


Teaching

Undergraduate teaching:

  • BUS3066: Critical Issues Human Resource Management: Pragmatic Dilemmas in Managing the Workplace of the Future


Postgraduate teaching:

  • NBS8287: Global Employment Relations
  • NBS8387: HRM in Cross-National Contexts
Publications