Luke Nolan

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I am a postgraduate researcher with the Department of People, Work and Employment at Leeds University Business School. I obtained a BA in Sociology from The Open University in 2023 and completed an MA in Social Research at the University of Leeds in 2024.

Research interests

My Master’s dissertation titled ‘Discovering Degrowth Practices:
How can Practice Theory be used to analyse the sustainability of workers’ practices within UK worker cooperatives?’  aimed to produce the beginnings of a methodological framework suitable for analysing the sustainability of micro-level practices within workplaces.

My PhD research aims to use Practice Theory to understand how habitual, political and time-use influences within organisations affect the environmental, economic and social sustainability of worker practices.

My research interests include:

• Degrowth
• Worker Cooperatives
• Precarious Work
• Post-Work Politics
• Sustainability Transitions

Qualifications

• BA Sociology, The Open University 2023
• MA Social Research, The University of Leeds 2024