Tracey Warren

Tracey Warren is a Professor of Sociology in the Nottingham University Business School. She is an internationally recognised expert on class and gender inequalities in working lives, work-time patterns, work-life balance, domestic work, job quality, underemployment, financial hardship, and policies for equality.

She has published widely in these areas including in a range of leading journals such as ‘Work, Employment and Society’ and ‘the British Journal of Sociology’. Her PhD compared women’s work in Denmark and the UK, and she has carried out cross-national analyses since then e.g. on the quality of women’s part-time jobs across the EU; on women’s work-time and leisure time in different societies; work-time patterns and preferences; and innovative policies for gender equality from across the EU. Recently, she has led funded projects to explore the unequal impact of Covid-19 on working lives in the UK.

Tracey has served as a member of the editorial boards of the journals 'Social Sciences', 'Work, Employment and Society', 'Sociology' and 'the International Journal of Social Research Methodology'. She is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Understanding Society (UKHLS) study; was a member of the Timewise Innovation Unit; and is on the Academic Advisory Board for Working Families, the UK's leading work-life balance charity.