Rebecca Florisson

Email: r.florisson@qmul.ac.uk

Project description

Rebecca’s research will look at the extent to which precarious early work experience impacts on career mobility across the life course, with a particular focus on differential impacts for different groups of people.

Supervision

1st Supervisor: Dr Mark Williams
2nd Supervisor: Dr Maria Koumenta

Biography

Rebecca Florisson combines her part-time PhD at Queen Mary with her work as a Policy Advisor at the Work Foundation. Her main focus is on insecurity at work, social- and career mobility, working conditions, and diversity and inclusion issues.

She joined the Work Foundation in 2018, prior to which she worked at the European agency, Eurofound, where she contributed to research on working conditions in gigwork, organisational restructuring, and the impact of technological change on the workforce- and skills composition of the manufacturing sector in Europe. 

Previously, she successfully completed a MSc in Creative Writing at Edinburgh University and a MSc in Politics and Public Policy at Trinity College Dublin.

Centre and Group Membership

• PhD Candidate of the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED)

Publications

Research and policy papers

• Gable, O., Florisson, R., Walker, T. & Wilkes, M. (2020) No returns: A new direction to tackle insecurity in retail following COVID-19. The Work Foundation. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/work-foundation/NoReturns-final2ndSept.pdf
• Carey, H., Florisson, R., Lee, N. & O’Brien, D. (2020), Policy Review: Getting in and getting on: Class, participation and job quality in the UK’s creative industries. Research report, Policy and Evidence Centre for the Creative Industries. https://www.pec.ac.uk/research-reports/getting-in-and-getting-on-class-participation-and-job-quality-in-the-uks-creative-industries
• Carey, H., Wilkes, M., Florisson, R. (2020), The Looking Glass: Mental health in the UK’s film and TV industry. Research report. The Work Foundation. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/publications/reports/the-looking-glass/
• Carey, H., Florisson, R. & Giles, L. (2019) Evidence Review: Skills, talent and diversity in the Creative Industries, critical issues and evidence gaps. The Work Foundation for the Policy and Evidence Centre for the Creative Industries. https://pec.ac.uk/discussion-papers/skills-talent-and-diversity-in-the-creative-industries
• Chandler, J. & Florisson, R. (2019), Evaluating the PHE and BITC Employer Toolkits. The Work Foundation.
• Florisson, R. and Mandl, I. (2018), Platform work: Types and implications for employment and working conditions, working paper, Eurofound, Dublin. https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/wpef18004.pdf

Conferences

• King’s College London & Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) (8 June 2020), Creative industries and intersectional barriers: Exploring class and race, online. Carey, H. & Florisson, R. Getting in and getting on: Class, participation and job quality in the UK creative industries. https://events.nesta.org.uk/creativeindustriesintersectional

Long reads and opinion pieces

• Florisson, R. (forthcoming November 2020), Downturn in workers’ financial and mental wellbeing during Covid-19: Hardest hit are those that can least afford it. Long read. The Work Foundation
• Florisson, R. (Sept. 2020), Early evidence shows lower paid workers will be hardest hit through the coming crisis. Smart Thinking. https://smartthinking.org.uk/article/what-does-the-next-labour-market-crisis-look-like/