
Dr Felix Schulz
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: Income inequality; fairness; justice perceptions; trust; values; environmental policy
- 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 engaged in interdisciplinary research spanning labour economics, industrial relations, environmental labour studies and social psychology. My research centres around the causes and consequences of economic inequality.
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 consulancy 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 how this can shape our understanding around mitigating climate change. I rely mostly on quantative methods trying to integrate machine learning techniques next to traditional regression approaches.
Research interests
Digital technologies and inequalities in the workplace
Perceptions of income and pay inequality
Labour unions and collective employee voice
Effects of income/pay inequality and their social psychological processes
Values and policy support
Environmental labour studies and the just transition
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