About QUIT

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About QUIT

Presentation

The general aim of the QUIT (Sociological Research Centre on Everyday Life and Work) is the promotion, development and dissemination of research around work and work-related issues. The study of work is accordingly approached in a broad way hence including both production and reproduction spheres, their relationship and impact on other aspects. The QUIT covers employment-related research areas such as changes in national employment models and labour market, regulation of labour market and its interaction with the welfare state, training systems, labour market policy, industrial relations...

The QUIT staff is composed by researchers from several academic disciplines, including sociology, economy and other related disciplines. This allows the adoption of a multidisciplinary research approach that mirrors the complexity and importance assumed by work for citizens, companies, public and private organizations and social partners.


Main research themes
  • TIME, WORK AND EVERYDAY LIFE
  • EMPLOYMENT AND CHANGES IN THE LABOUR MARKET
  • GENDER AND WORK
  • LOCAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
  • INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND LABOUR ORGANIZATION
  • METHOLOGICAL INNOVATION
  • MOBILITY AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES

Research indicators (2019-2023)
  • Doctoral dissertations defended: 6
  • Publications (SCI/SSCI): 63
  • Projects awarded (competitive calls): 15
  • Number of research agreements: 27

Objectives

The fundamental aim of the research group is focussed on the development and consolidation of a line of investigation that relates the fields of work and everyday life. Because of this, our investigations tend to interrelate fields and areas rather than segment them. To do so, three axes of interest stand out:

  • Investigations demand rigour and theoretical debate as a fundamental objective, so QUIT organizes seminars and meetings with other researchers and scholars.

  • There is extensive agreement on methodology and investigation techniques which the group wishes to maintain as one of their essential features. This agreement gives importance to the elaboration of hypotheses that interrelate the labour market, domestic work and everyday life; it highlights the importance of the context in which these phenomena are inscribed, and it focuses on strategies of the social protagonists in order to understand the phenomena we study. In terms of data analysis, without underrating the quantitative approach, they insist on a more qualitative approach: observation, participation, interviews and biographical, social network and content analysis...

  • QUIT also gives particular importance to the training of doctoral students, supervising theses and incorporating young researchers into QUIT project teams. It organizes special courses on research techniques. The objective of training linked to investigation is also planned for the whole of the Sociology department. The group has always maintained a very active presence in the doctoral program providing courses related to its investigations, organizing various seminars and preparing conferences for the whole of the faculty of Political Science and Sociology.

Visiting Scholar Programme

The QUIT hosts researchers - pre doctoral or post-doctoral - from other institutions or research centres that want to carry out a stay as a visiting scholar. Researchers should send the applicant form by email. All incoming applications will be assessed according to tutor availability as well as the proposed theme is in line with QUIT’S research fields.

  • Applicant form
  • Contact

    • Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT)
    • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
    • Edifici B, Carrer de la Fortuna - Campus de la UAB (Despatx B3-075)
    • 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) Barcelona, Spain
    • mail: quit@uab.cat
    • tel.: +34 93 581 2405
    • www.quit.uab.cat
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