Role
David Dahill is employed at NTU as a Research Fellow in HRM/Organisational Studies at the Center of People, Work, and Organisational Practice within NBS.
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 has worked as a researcher on a number of projects across the University. This ranges from studies focusing on precarious work and the gig economy, the Impact of COVID-19 on the VCSE sector, to a recent report series on psychological wellbeing in occupational contexts (see publications). He is co-convener of the Work futures Research Group in the department of sociology, and in addition to his research, has also acted as co-tutor on the ‘thinking sociologically’ and ‘sociology of work and career’ modules of the BA Sociology programme.
David's doctoral thesis (we must be precarious; the system demands it: Hidden injuries and subjectivities of precarious work) explores the existential and social dimensions of precarious work, including an ethnographic study of temporary agency work in the UK.