Leeds academics win research grant to support student workers

Prof. Kim Allen and Dr Lilith Brouwers from the School of Sociology and Social Policy are part of a research team that have won a grant to address the gap in support for student workers.

Colleagues Professor Kim Allen and Dr Lilith Brouwers (School of Sociology and Social Policy) with Professor Kate Hardy from the Leeds University Business School (LUBS) have been awarded £14,698 for the research project 'Student Work is Work: Student Rights at Work’. 

The award from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Leeds Institute for Societal Futures 'Impact Accelerator Award' scheme, is to build real world impact from the ESRC-funded project 'L-earning: Rethinking Young Women's Working Lives'. 
 
The award project entitled 'Student Work is Work: Student Rights at Work' will run from December 2025 for 11 months and involve partnership with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Young Women's Trust. 
 
This project will address a gap in support for student workers by collaborating with young people and non-academic partners to create practical interventions to support greater awareness and enactment of student workers’ rights. It will result in a set of new learning resources for students about their rights at work and a national media campaign (‘Student Work is Work’) to raise awareness of the issue. 

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