Morwenna Byford

MA (Hons), MSc

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Research Officer

morwenna.byford@employment-studies.co.uk

020 7104 2082

Morwenna joined IES in January 2018. Her research interests include structural disadvantage in the workplace, the expansion of precarious employment and comparative European labour market research. Morwenna has a particular interest in the 'gig-economy'; her postgraduate dissertation examined the interplay between precariousness, immigrant masculinities and entrepreneurial identity amongst ride-sharing gig economy workers in London.   

Previously, she has worked as a parliamentary researcher in the House of Commons and completed several small-scale research studies for development NGOs in Uganda and Cameroon. 

Education

2017 London School of Economics and Political Science MSc, Gender, Development and Globalisation
2016 University of Glasgow MA (Hons), Politics