Jen Remnant

I am a Chancellor’s Fellow (CF) in the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) based in the Work Employment and Organisations (WEO) department of Strathclyde Business School. After, and alongside working in health and social care, I completed my undergraduate degree in Disability Studies and Professional Practice Studies at Northumbria University, and a master’s in Health and Social Science Research and PhD in medical sociology at Newcastle University in the medical school.

My research focuses on the subjective experiences of health at work, employee perceptions of their own health, other workplace stakeholder perspectives and responses to ill-health and disability at work, and historical, cultural and political perspectives, debates and depictions of health in relation to work. This means answering questions like ‘what assumptions are present in organisations regarding ill-health?’, ‘who is the workplace designed for?’ and ‘how do people manage perceived differences between themselves/their reports/their colleagues and their idea of a ‘perfect’ employee?’ This work has included reflection on Higher Education employers such as Strathclyde, as well as other public and private sector organisations.