Rachel J. Wilde

Department:

Lifelong and Comparative Education, UCL Institute of Education, University College London

Centre:

Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES)

Email:
Phone: 0207 331 5114 / 07582 582 273
Office: 706

Role in LLAKES

Research Officer

I love the work I do at LLAKES. Each project I am involved in seeks to understand and address real world issues. My colleagues and I are equally committed to extending academic concepts and approaches.

My core research interests are in work and labour, as well as the anthropology of personhood and organisations. I'm involved in a range of very different research projects, and yet they all pursue questions about how different kinds of organisations and institutions shape persons and society

As a social anthropologist, I specialise in qualitative research methods, particularly ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviewing. All the research at LLAKES is interdisciplinary, I work with economists, quantitative, qualitative and organisational sociologists, political scientists, comparative education and policy specialists.

I am also a Committee Member of the Research Staff Association, which was set up to promote the career development and welfare of research staff.

I am keen to take on PhD students in any of the following areas, others also considered. I would be very happy to co-supervise students alongside UCL Anthropology.

Ethnographic methods/participant observation/depth and qualitative interviewing
Workplace learning/Learning and Work
Workplaces and organisational knowledge/practice
Citizenship
Youth
Professional Development and Employability/Professionalism
Labour market policy
Transitions from education to work
The Third Sector/charity
Free/Private schools

IRIS profile: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RJWIL24

Research Interests

My core research interests are in work and labour, as well as the anthropology of personhood and organisations. I'm involved in a range of very different research projects, and yet they all pursue questions about how different kinds of organisations and institutions shape persons and society.

Current LLAKES Projects

Project 2: Comparative Analysis of Early Childhood Cognitive Outcomes

Project 2: Inter-Professional Learning in the Creative and Cultural Sector

Project 2: The Crisis for Contemporary Youth: Young People, Opportunities and Civic Values
Project 3: Getting in and Getting on in th

Recent Outputs and Activities

Review: Garsten, Christina and Anette Nyqvist (eds). 2014. Organisational Anthropology: Doing Ethnography in and among Complex Organisations. London: Pluto Press. Social Anthropology, Autumn (forthcoming)

Notes from the Field: Motion and Emotion in Glasgow, LLAKES Newsletter Issue 8 Spring 2015

Internships and Unequal Opportunities, LLAKES Newsletter Issue 7 Autumn 2014

Forthcoming presentations:

Young Enterprise
Work, Gender and Generation in the Southampton City-Region,
University of Southampton, 8th May 2015

Getting in and Getting on in Youth Labour Markets: Progression or Regression?

Wilde, R and Leonard, P.

The British Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Glasgow, 15th- 17th April 2015

Using a new presentation style - PechaKucha - I will be presenting 20 images for 20 seconds each to give an insight into an Enterprise programme for long term unemployed young people in the South West of England.