Clare Lyonette

Biography

Clare Lyonette oined the Institute for Employment Research in February 2009 after working at City University, London, on a series of ESRC-funded projects, including an extended project within the Gender Equality Network (www.genet.ac.uk). she use both qualitative and quantitative data in my research, focusing specifically on working time, work flexibility, gender issues within the labour market and work and family issues. Since joining IER, she has been involved in a variety of projects, including an evaluation of the Quality Part-time Work Fund for the Government Equalities Office (GEO). she has co-authored an ILO report on the influence of working time arrangements on work-life balance, and led a Nuffield Foundation-funded project on the higher education experiences and labour market outcomes of student mothers. she was also a co-investigator on an ESRC-funded seminar series on work-life balance and the recession and a co-she on a project looking at work-life balance in the armed forces, funded by the MoD. she recently supervised a research student who was examining work-life balance issues for women in Nigeria. Another is examining the career progression of hospitality workers in Malaysia. Another PhD student is looking at formal and informal flexible working arrangements within the finance sector in the UK, using mixed-methods research.

Research Interest

all aspects of gender and the labour market, including women's career choices and constraints; gender roles and gender equality; the division of domestic labour and childcare; atypical working, flexible working arrangements and new ways of working; the quality of part-time work; motherhood, fatherhood and social class differences; work-life balance, work-life conflict and wellbeing.