Working Together —
The WALQING Partners

The consortium consists of eleven partners that represent a wide range of European employment models, research traditions and disciplines such as labour economics, work psychology, sociology of work and organisations, political science, management studies and human resource management. Several partners have collaborated in previous EU level research projects such as WORKS, PIQUE, DYNAMO, CAPRIGHT and on projects commissioned by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the Russell Sage Foundation ("Low-wage work in Europe" 2004-2007 and the "Global Call Center Industry Project" (with mixed national funding, 2004-2009).

Partners

FORBA (Coordinator)
Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt
www.forba.at

Key researchers:
Ursula Holtgrewe
Karin Sardadvar

Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA)
KU Leuven
www.hiva.be

Key researchers:
Monique Ramioul
Sem Vandekerckhove
Fernando Pauwels
Jan Van Peteghem

                                           Institute for the Study of Societies and
                                           Knowledge (ISSK)
                                           Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
                                           http://issk-bas.org/en

                                           Key researchers:
                                           Vassil Kirov
                                           Ekaterina Markova
                                           Darina Peycheva

Det Nationale Forskningscenter
for Arbejdsmiljø (NRCWE)
www.arbejdsmiljoforskning.dk

Key researchers:
Peter Hasle
Ole H. Sørensen

 

                                               Roskilde Universitet (RUC)
                                               www.ruc.dk

                                               Key researchers:
                                               Pernille Hohnen

 

 

Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
Universität Duisburg Essen (UDE)
www.iaq.uni-due.de

Key researchers:
Karen Jaehrling
Steffen Lehndorff
Claudia Weinkopf
Angelika Kümmerling

Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (IPS HAS)
www.mtapti.hu

Key researchers:
András Tóth

Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli (LABOR)
Centre for Employment Studies
Collegio Carlo Alberto Centro di ricerca e alta formazione
www.laboratoriorevelli.it

Key researchers:
Ambra Poggi
Claudia Villosio

Sociology Department
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU)
www.vdu.lt

Key researchers:
Jolanta Kuznecoviene
Vytis Ciubrinskas
Rasa Naujaniene

 

Centre d’Estudis Sociològics
Sobre La Vida Quotidiana I El Treball (QUIT)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
http://quit.uab.es

Key researchers:
Albert Recio
Fausto Miguélez
Sara Moreno

SINTEF Technology and Society
www.sintef.no

Key researchers:
Johan Ravn
Hans Torvatn
Lisbeth Øyum
Hanne O. Finnestrand

                                 Manchester Business School
                                 The University of Manchester
                                 www.mbs.ac.uk

                                 Key researchers:
                                 David Holman
                                 Charlotte McClelland

News

walqing project successfully completed

Deliverables and documentation available[more]

Final walqing deliverables available

Synthesis reports finalised on case-study research, individual perspective and agency of jobholders as well as the project's Action Research [more]

Jornada de Transferencia on walqing results in Spain

"La calidad del empleo: una mirada sectorial y de género" held in Barcelona, Spain, on 15 November 2012[more]