[ecrea] A PhD studentship on (Dis)Connected Working: Managing Work-Life Boundaries in a Digital Economy

(Dis)Connected Working: Managing Work-Life Boundaries in a Digital Economy

The proposed project will explore organizational policies and
practices related to technology and work-life balance, and the ways in
which these make possible specific ways of working, living, and
combining work with non-work activities and responsibilities.
The project will take a participatory ethnographic approach, and will
draw on established methodologies of action research in organizations.
It will be based within a single case study organization.

The aims of the project will include:

   1.  examining the ways in which government and organisational
policies and practices related to digital technologies, flexible and
mobile working, and work-life balance impact - often in complex,
unexpected or even contradictory ways - on how employees use
work-related technologies in managing work, non-work, and the
relationship between these;
   2.  exploring potential disparities and inequalities in access to
digital infrastructure across geographically diverse areas (across the
rural-urban spectrum), and their potential impact on work and non-work
practices and relationship between these;
   3.  proposing new ways of studying organizational policies and
practices related to technology and work-life balance.

The proposed doctoral project will be supervised by Dr Karolina
Kazimierczak and Professor Natasha Mauthner from the University of
Aberdeen Business School, and will build on an existing EPSRC-funded
study, Digital Epiphanies, which investigates interactions between
work, family life and technologies in the home. The project will form
part of a broader programme of research exploring interactions between
technologies and social worlds across different sites (family,
organization, national and international policy, popular culture).

The project is funded by a University of Aberdeen Elphinstone
Scholarship.  An Elphinstone Scholarship covers the cost of tuition
fees, whether Home, EU or Overseas. The deadline for applications is
Friday, 6 June 2014.

Informal queries can be directed to Dr Karolina Kazimierczak at:
(k.a.kazimierczak /at/ abdn.ac.uk)<mailto:(k.a.kazimierczak /at/ abdn.ac.uk)>.

Details of application procedures can be found at:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/elphinstone-phd-scholarships-329


The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.



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