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PhD Student's Call For Disabled Workers' Help

PhD Student's Call For Disabled Workers' Help

A doctoral student looking into the ‘gig economy’ and how it affects disabled people in the jobs market is looking for interviewees to help with her project.

Ioana Cerasella Chis, who is in the first year of a PhD at Birmingham University’s politics department, wants to speak to disabled, neurodiverse and/or chronically ill people who are on zero-hours, fixed-term or seasonal contracts, and to talk about their daily experiences of managing work, finding time to rest, dealing with the social security system, and possibilities for collective resistance.

The overall meeting lasts for 1.5 hours, and it will take place over Skype during the pandemic, or face-to-face afterwards. Confidentiality is assured. She is trying to include the experiences of workers in various sectors, and workers with different social positions, identities, and migration status. All participants will be paid in line with the Real Living Wage for their help.

Her website is entitled Material Bodies and Precarious Work

Ioana has also written a blog containing examples of her work as well as writings on other subjects. She also has a Twitter site. You can contact her on email at ICC108@student.bham.ac.uk

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