William Fleming

I'm a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford. 

My research expertise is in work and wellbeing: how work is better or worse for us, and how jobs might be improved through interventions. What works, what doesn’t work, and why. I'm also interested in jobs, and bits of jobs, that seek to improve society.

Before taking up my current post, I completed my PhD in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. My thesis amounted to an empirical critique of the dominant approach in workplace wellbeing practices and narratives. The first of these research papers was published in Industrial Relations with international media coverage in outlets like the New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune and many more (it even went viral on TikTok). My future research agenda is more positive: experimental research testing how we can improve jobs. 

I shortly held a role as a postdoctoral Research Associate with NIHR ARC East of England (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge), exploring digital transformation and co-production in public mental health services. I'm an affiliate of the sociology departments at Oxford and Cambridge. 

If you would like to discuss anything relating to my research, please email me.
william.fleming@hmc.ox.ac.uk

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