Strathclyde plays a leading role in understanding the Scottish economy and labour market. Our expertise in the area of Work, Employment & Economy helps inform choices about the challenges we face as a society.
Our work is theory-led, policy relevant and focused on professional application:
- Organising for social and digital innovation
- Digital transformation for innovation in organisations
- Innovation in the workplace, economy and society to improve the experience and quality of work
- Collaborative leadership, leadership as practice and public sector leadership
- Labour markets, skills and employability
- Job quality and skills utilisation
- Employment and employability
- Equality and diversity
- Regulation & restructuring of employment relations in global context
- Work, labour and globalisation
- Poverty, precarious work, workplace dignity, respect and wellbeing
- Reshaping employment and public, private and voluntary sectors
- Emotional labour, aesthetics and performance, service work
- Applied Econometrics
- Measures of the modern economy
- Spatial econometrics and econometric techniques
- Indicators of the macroeconomy through ‘nowcasting’
- Applied Macroeconomics
- Macro-modelling of the UK and Scottish economies
- Policy evaluation
- Fiscal analysis
- Labour markets
- Applied Microeconomics
- International trade
- Public economics
- Industrial organisation
- Economic Policy
- Economic policy analysis
- Monitoring the Scottish economy
- Improving regional economic statistics
- Economic modelling