Research staff vacancies
- none at present
Prospective PhD students
- I am currently reviewing applications for a start date of Autumn 2025.
Our research
eWorkResearch is an interdisciplinary research team of experts exploring the use of digital technology to support work and wellbeing. Through our research we promote the co-creation and design of digital technologies and services that support a fairer, more inclusive and equitable society. Research topics include:
- Productivity in the Future of Work: Exploring technologies to enhance productivity across various work contexts, including academia, finance, law, crowdwork, healthcare, and domestic labor.
- Work-Related Wellbeing: Designing technologies to improve work-related wellbeing, focusing on break-taking, post-work recovery, stress management, and work-life balance.
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Developing technologies that uphold equality, diversity, and inclusion, guided by Feminist HCI and Value Sensitive Design
Funding
- Try the UCL Scholarships Finder
- UCL’s Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS ) is intended to support UK-permanent residents from certain BME ethnic groups.
- Additional funding opportunities for UK/EU PhD students to start in Autumn of each year are advertised on the UCLIC page.
- Information for overseas students can be found on the UCL website.
Who would you be working with?
Check out the people page to see current and former members of the team, and to see our current collaborators.
How to apply
Full details of the application process are online here
Help with your proposal
Know what kind of contribution you want to make:
Use Seven Research Contributions in HCI by Jacob O. Wobbrock to help you think about what you want to do.
How should you structure your proposal?
The following advice is based on Andrew Derrington’s PIPPIN magic formula for structuring a research proposal.
- Briefly state the PROMISE. What will your programme of research deliver?
- Say why it is IMPORTANT. What gap in the literature does it address? Or which applied problem does it aim to solve?
- State up to 3 sub-PROBLEMS. What are the things you need to find the answer to in order to deliver on your promise?
- Introduce your PROJECT. Briefly say what sort of approach you will take.
- Next decribe how you intend to IMPLEMENT your programme of research. Which methods will you use to find the answer to your 3 sub-problems.
- And finally, say what will happen NEXT. What is the potential impact of your project?
