Role
Dr David Dahill is a Research Fellow at the Centre of People, Work, and Organisational Practice (CPWOP), in the Department of Human Resource Management within Nottingham Business School.
Career overview
David's background prior to academia was within policy research, plus 8 years within the aerospace industry and digital services.
Research areas
David's research broadly sits across the intersections of wellbeing, work, and employment, where he has developed special interest on the impact of precarious forms of work on individual and societal wellbeing, and psychological wellbeing and safety in wider employment contexts. He has been involved in multiple projects across the university, including helping to lead and deliver a series of rapid evidence assessments (REA’s) on psychological wellbeing and safety in a global context, and a systematic review on good and decent work in the gig economy (see publications). David is currently supporting the development of the wellbeing and work strand of CPWOP, and is co-convener of the Work Futures Research Group at NTU.
In addition to his research, David has acted as co-tutor on the ‘thinking sociologically’ and ‘sociology of work and career’ modules of the BA Sociology programme. His doctoral thesis (we must be precarious; the system demands it: Hidden injuries and subjectivities of precarious work) explores the existential and social dimensions of precarity, including an auto-ethnography of temporary agency work in the UK.
External activity
David is part of the international network and reading group 'precarious work, precarious lives' with academics across South America and Europe (jointly ran by Cardiff University and University of São Paulo).