Freelancing in general might be assumed to require the freelancer to juggle the benefits of autonomy and freedom with the additional work of self-promotion and all the administrative functions provided by traditional companies. Move this to the virtual world, then the question is whether ‘eLancing’, as we call it, imposes other constraints …
Using a new large COVID-19 survey, Darja Reuschke together with Prof Alan Felstead (Cardiff University) provide new evidence on the dramatic changes in homeworking in the UK. We find that the sudden change in the level of homeworking was most striking amongst employees. The self-employed were more used to work …
Darja Reuschke gave a seminar to Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow about new insights into and methods to study economic creativity in cities. Based on two papers (together with Donald Houston from the University of Portsmouth and Jed Long from the Western University, Ontario) she argued that the …
The sudden closure of businesses and tight social distancing restrictions on the movement of people in the attempt to slow down the spread of Covid-19 is having unprecedented effects on employment and businesses activity. Employment in non-food personal and domestic services is directly affected since customers are required to stay …
The Centre of Excellence for the Future of Human Communication at the University of Southampton has organised a (virtual) Roundtable Discussion on the radical changes of communication practices we have witnessed since the lockdown and restrictions on mobility, workplace and socialising. Darja Reuschke was invited as an expert on homeworking …
Industrial and occupational changes have been well-studied. These changes of work are embedded in wider changes of economies and societies due to globalisation and rapidly developing communication and information technologies. However, changes in work are not limited to how work is being performed but also where work is being performed. …
Victoria Price presented a new conference paper from her PhD research at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in Newcastle, on the 14th of November 2019. The paper, which is co-authored with Darja Reuschke, was presented to the Gender & Enterprise Special Interest Group …
Victoria Price will present a paper titled ‘Investigating the Performance of Women-Owned Home-Based Businesses’, at the annual Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference (ISBE), in Newcastle, UK, on the 14-15 November 2019. The focus of this prestigious and international conference is ‘SPACE – exploring new frontiers and entrepreneurial places’. …
Beginning October 2018, the WORKANDHOME team, with the help of outside consultants, embarked upon an ambitious mobile survey. Our objective was to use GPS location tracking to capture participant movement and a real-time survey questionnaire to ask questions about peoples’ activities and feelings throughout the day. Participants were instructed to …
Darja Reuschke was invited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to speak about “What can SMEs and entrepreneurs do for our cities?” at an international and high-profile event in Trento, Italy, 15-16 April 2019. The event that was organised by the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development …