Dr Felix Schulz
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: justice perceptions; Income inequality; trust; values; just transition; environmental labour studies; employee voice; digital technologies
- Email: F.Schulz@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 0309
- Location: 23 Lyddon Terrace
- Website: Twitter | Googlescholar
Profile
I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work (digit) Research centre and on an international Hans-Böckler-Stiftung funded project on the role of labour in the “Just Transition”. My research is interdisciplinary drawing on labour economics, industrial relations, environmental labour studies and social psychology, with justice and inequality as the overarching focus.
My background is in economics and eocnomics of public policy, which I studied at the University of Utrecht, prior to starting my PhD at the University of Leeds. I have working experience in the automotive sector as well as in business consultancy with a focus on political communication. These experience shaped my understanding of the interplay betweween work, organisations and policy.
I am working on a variety of projects looking at factors contributing to inequality in the workplace (for instance the implementation of digital technologies), the varying effects on income/pay inequality on human relations inside and outside the workplace, and the role of values and justice perception for environmental policy support. I rely mostly on quantative methods trying to integrate machine learning techniques next to traditional regression approaches, but also employ qualitative methods to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of interest.
Research interests
Digital technologies and inequalities in the workplace
Values and policy support
Environmental labour studies and the just transition
Labour unions and collective employee voice
Perceptions of income and pay inequality
Effects of income/pay inequality and their social psychological processes
Qualifications
- 2021: PhD Economics and Business (University of Leeds)
- 2016: MSc Economics of Public Policy (Utrecht University)
- 2014: BSc Economics and Business Economics (Utrecht University)
Professional memberships
- Young Scholars Initiative
Student education
I was the seminar leader for:
2018: Labour Economics
2018-2020: Economic Institutions (Industry)
2019: HRM Research Methods and Practices
2021: Understanding Statistics in the Social Sciences