Dr Melahat Sahin-Dikmen
I am a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences.
My core expertise lies in the sociology of work and employment. Having worked as a policy researcher for many years, I have extensive experience in cross-disciplinary research. In my research, I draw on the broad fields of economic and political sociology, industrial relations, and environmental studies.
I took my first degree (BSc in Sociology) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1997). I later completed an MSc in Social Research Methods (with Social Policy) (2000), also at the LSE. My PhD, completed at the University of York (2014), engaged with Bourdieu's concept of the field to analyse the dynamics of professional domains of work. I have been at the University of Westminster since 2016, first as a Research Fellow and then as a lecturer since 2021.
Currently, I am developing research on the following areas:
(i) health and well-being at work, with a focus on the adult social care sector
(ii) working lives using biographical approaches
Previously, I researched the implications of climate change for the world of work, and gender and labour in climate policy, with a focus on building design and construction occupations.
