The South-East DTC scholarships are now open. Those of you who wish to pursue a PhD under my supervision here at the University of Kent (and are either UK or EU based) can contact me to discuss your PhD proposals.
The deadline for submission is the 19th of February 2014. For more information see this link.
Korean Social Policy Association
As of 2013, I am a board member of the Korean Association of Social Policy.
Kent takes part in Eastern ARC
The University of East Anglia, the University of Essex and the University of Kent have established a new research consortium in a move that brings together three of the UK's leading universities. The Eastern Academic Research Consortium (ARC) will build on the universities' existing research and partnership activities to become a significant new force in research, and research training.
The three initial research areas are Environment Science/Synthetic Biology, Digital Humanities & Quantitative Social Sciences, for which I will take the lead for Kent.
Each institution will fund two five-year postdoctoral Fellowships with the expectation that they will develop successful grant applications. There will also be six PhD studentships per institution (two in each research area).
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ESRC Future Leaders Award
I have been awarded the ESRC Future Leaders Award 2012/3 for the project "Working time flexibility and work-life balance across Europe and the role of contexts: connecting the individual- , company and the country-level". There is mixed evidence on whether the use of flexi-time is beneficial for a better work-life balance, because flexibility can lead to spill-overs from work to home and blur the boundaries between them. I expect that different family, company and national contexts will shape the way flexi-time is used by individuals as well as its outcomes. I will match data from three levels; individual, company and national levels across 25 European countries to explore this question further.
New book chapter
Ton Wilthagen, Ruud Muffels and Heejung Chung (2013) “The ‘state of affairs’ of flexicurity in industrial relations: assessing country performance using transition indicators” Arrowsmith & Pulignano (eds) The Transformation ofEmployment Relations in Europe: Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalisation. Taylor & Francis
New journal articles
Chung, H. & Tijdens, K. (2013) "Working time components and working time regimes in Europe: using company-level data across 21 countries" International Journal of Human Resource Management, 24(7): 1418-1434.
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