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Work and the Economy
Faculty in this area study inequality in work arrangements within the context of the changing nature of work and the economy. Areas of study include professional work and the process of professionalization and regulation, gender and work, the interplay between structural factors and individual agency in school-work transitions, job-stress, disability accommodation and precarious employment arrangements, retirement and occupational pensions, and work and aging.
Research Stories
Faculty Experts in Work and the Economy
Tracey Adams, Professor
- Work
- Professions
- Regulation of professions in Canada
- Social inequality
- Gendered professions
- Health professions
David Calnitsky, Assistant Professor
- Economic Sociology
- Inequality
- Gender
- Work
- Poverty
- Social policy
Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor
Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Social inequality, social stratification, and mobility
- Life course
- Education
- Labour markets
- Union and non-union influences on wages
519-661-2111 x85725
pdenice@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Michael Haan, Associate Professor
Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western
- Demography
- Immigrant settlement
- Labour market integration
- Migration
- Data development
- Longitudinal data analysis
On Leave - July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024
Wolfgang Lehmann, Professor
Assistant Dean, Student Experience, Faculty of Social Science
- Social inequality
- Social class
- Sociology of work
- Higher education
- Vocational education
- School-work transitions
519-661-2111 x85385
wlehmann@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Kaitlynn Mendes, Associate Professor
- Gender inequality
- Social media
- Sexual violence
- Youth
- Mixed methods research
519-661-2111 x87356
kaitlynn.mendes@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Lora Phillips, Assistant Professor
- Inequality
- Precarity
- Vulnerable populations
- Health and well-being
- Urban sociology
Kim Shuey, Professor
- Health and disability across the life course
- Transmission of health across generations
- Precarious employment, work and health
- Environmental sociology.
Sean Waite, Associate Professor
- Social inequality
- Gender inequality
- Higher education outcomes
- LGBTQ and the labour market
- LGBTQ identity, poverty and health
- Criminology and deviance
On Leave - July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024
