Dr Pedro Mendonça
Associate Professor
Pedro Mendonça is an Associate Professor in Work and Employment. Pedro’s key areas of specialisation are aimed at analysing futures of work with particular focus on improving job quality in digital platform work, the gig economy, and supply chains.
More recently, Pedro’s research has explored transnational labour mobility, precarious work and their implications for changing employment relations, trade unions renewal and wider social movements.
Pedro’s research is highly interdisciplinary drawing from Industrial Relations, sociology of work, labour process theory, labour geography and organisation studies. Current research projects include the evaluation of Fair Work in Platform Work in Scotland, evaluating informalization of work and employment practices within the platform economy.
Pedro is a member of the Centre for Research on Employment, Work and Professions – an interdisciplinary research centre, and he welcomes PhD applications on a wide-range of HRM, employment and industrial relations issues.
Areas of interest
- Employment Relations, Gig Economy, Job Quality, Migrant Labour, Trade Unions
Qualifications
2018 PgCert in Academic Practice (HE), Nottingham Trent University, PGCAP
2018 PhD in HRM, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
2013 MSc in HRM, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
2009 Msc in Organisational and Social Psychology, ISPA-Lisbon, Portugal
Background
2020 – 2022 Lecturer in HRM/OB at Edinburgh Napier University
2017 – 2020 Lecturer in HRM/OB at Nottingham Trent University
2013 – 2016 Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher for ITN project Changing Employment