May 172020
Dear DPAC members,
I’m a PhD student at the University of Birmingham in the Politics department. I am looking to interview disabled, neurodiverse and/or chronically ill workers who work as self-employed or on zero-hours, short-term, or (imposed) part-time contracts.
The project focuses on experiences and views of living while undertaking precarious work. The questions revolve around work, disability, resting, the social security system (if applicable) and possibilities for collective resistance.
There has been a lot of talk around the ‘gig economy’ recently, but the experiences and viewpoints of disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill people have not been placed at the centre of these reports/projects. This is why I am doing this project myself at the moment. For information, this is my short bio: https://materialbodies.work/bio
Length and location of interviews:
The interviews would take place on Skype or Zoom (during the lockdown) or face-to-face (after the lockdown). They usually last (overall) for 1.5 hours, including the informal discussions before and after the interview itself.
Compensation:
Compensation for interviews is as follows: £15 for workers who live outside of London and £16 for those who live in London. At the end of the interview we will also talk about whether you’d like to keep a diary for eight weeks, starting in September – this is, of course, optional. Compensation for diaries a supermarket voucher worth £15 or £20 depending on where you live.
More information:
For more information regarding the project, please visit https://materialbodies.work.
To register to join the project, please visit: https://materialbodies.work/join.
If you have any questions about the project, please do not hesitate to contact me at icc108@student.bham.ac.uk or by texting me at 0774 2658 739.
I would like to interview participants who work in different sectors and who have different experiences in terms of their social position(s), identity, and migration status.
If this does not apply to you but you know someone else who could and would be interested in joining the project, I would appreciate if you could forward this call for participants to them: https://materialbodies.work/call-for-participants
Thank you!
All best wishes,
Ioana
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