Lead supervisor:
Dr Shailen Nandy 
Start date: January 2020
Award: General
Subject Pathway:
Social Care, Social Work and Social Policy
Thematic Cluster:
Society and Well-Being Cluster
Precarity and social mobility
ASPIRING TO SURVIVE: PRECARIAT CONSTRUCTIONS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
This qualitative, emancipatory research project will utilise psychosocial interviewing and discourse analysis to explore precariat workers perspectives on social mobility policy, comparing and contrasting these with dominant neoliberal discourses and examining the impact of these discourses on participants' lived experiences. The research will also incorporate co-designed elements.