Employment, Debt, & Getting by Economies (EDGE)
Exploring financial precarity, insecure work and how people manage money and debt in difficult economic circumstances.
About the network
The Employment, Debt, & Getting by Economies (EDGE) Emerging Research Network explores financial precarity, low-income and insecure work, debt and everyday money management.
Our interdisciplinary network brings together expertise in marketing, economics, work and employment, economic geography and neurodiversity studies.
Our research examines how financial and employment systems affect people experiencing economic insecurity, with a strong regional focus on the North East alongside national and international perspectives.
What we do
Who we are
The network brings together researchers from Newcastle University and other institutions with expertise spanning employment, consumer finance, economic geography, financial inclusion and inequality.
Convenors
Convenor: Dr Jane Brown
Deputy Convenor: Professor Abigail Marks
External members
Durham University Business School
Dr Chrysostomos Apostolidis, Associate Professor in Marketing
University of Strathclyde
Dr Darren McGuire, Lecturer in Organisational Studies
Leeds University Business School
Dr Esme Terry, Research Fellow with the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre
Find out more
For enquiries about membership, collaboration or research activities, please contact the network convenors.
Dr Jane Brown – Jane.Brown@newcastle.ac.uk