Dr Daniel Wheatley

• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Academic Fellow 2022
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) 2015
• Fellow of the Regional Studies Association (FeRSA) 2011
• PhD Business and Management 2009
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) 2007
• MSc Social Science Research Methods 2005
• BA (Hons) Business Economics 2003

Daniel Wheatley is Reader in the Department of Management. He is the Director of the Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC) and Head of Academic Quality Assurance in Birmingham Business School. Daniel's research focuses on advancing knowledge on the implications of workplace change including that arising from technology advancements, progressing understanding of working time, flexible working, remote and hybrid work, work-life balance, workplace well-being, job quality, spatial dimensions of work including commuting and business travel, and interactions between work and leisure time and the household division of labour. Daniel employs mixed methods including statistical analysis of large-scale data, case studies and qualitative approaches.

Dan teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, specialising in areas of industrial and labour economics, economic evaluation and social science research methods.

Current supervision (University of Birmingham)

2020- : Mo Xing, PhD (full-time): The 9-9-6 working hour system: Complex patterns of virtual presenteeism of homeworkers under organisational surveillance. Co-supervisor (50%)

2021- : Annalise Galea, PhD (full-time): A contingency model for the relation between observed abusive supervision and job crafting. Co-supervisor (50%)

2021- : Nazia Saeed, PhD (full-time): An Analysis of the Effect of Flexible Working Policies on Work Life Balance and Gender Equality. Co-supervisor (50%)

2022- : Anna Atkins, PhD (full-time): Social capital in self-employed Public Relations practitioners: time use antecedents and job quality outcomes

2022- : Robert Waiswa, PhD (full-time): Towards an enabling information environment for adoption of home-based telework for people with disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Greater Metropolitan Uganda.

Current supervision (Nottingham Trent University)

2015- : Amanda Thompson, PhD (part-time): How do middle-aged male part-time workers, in professional and managerial roles, articulate and perform gender? Co-supervisor (33%)

Dan’s research focuses on workplace well-being including the quality of work, work-life balance and flexible working arrangements, spatial dimensions of work including work-related travel, and extending to other aspects of time-use including use of leisure time, and the household division of labour. He employs a range of methods in his research including statistical analysis of large-scale secondary data sources including panel data, and mixed method research design.

Dan is author of Time Well Spent: Subjective Well-being and the Organization of Time and editor of the Edward Elgar Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives. His work has appeared in a number of edited volumes, and in peer reviewed journals including the Cambridge Journal of Economics; Gender, Work and Organization; Industrial Relations Journal; New Technology, Work and Employment; Work, Employment and Society, and; Work and Occupations.

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