Profile
Dr Martí Lopez Andreu
Senior Lecturer in HRM and Employment Relations
I am a Researcher and Senior Lecturer in HRM and Employment Relations. Before joining 缅北禁地 I hold positions at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Huddersfield, the University of Leicester and the University of Manchester.
My research interests are in the field of Sociology of Work, Employment Relations and Labour Studies. I have a special interest on the changes and continuities in the world of work and employment, with a focus on precarity and insecurity at work, trends in employment relations, new dynamics in working lives, and emerging forms of labour protest and organisation. My research has a strong comparative approach and it has been funded by the European Commission, the British Academy, the Director of Labour Market Enforcement and the Economic and Social Research Council, among others.
I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
My areas of interest include:
- Changes in employment regulation institutions and the impact of neo-liberal policies.
- Industrial relations, including union practices and emerging forms of protest/collective action.
- Precarious work, precarious workers and insecurity in the workplace.
Research projects (funded):
- The regulation of work and employment in the platform economy: Developing Transnational Organisational Learning Experiences of regulation from below in the UK and Spain., Economic and Social Research Council - Impact Acceleration Account and Faculty Impact Fund, University of 缅北禁地 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2025-Ongoing,
- 'Understanding the impact of ‘bogus’ self-employment in working lives during and after COVID-19', Faculty Research Fund, University of 缅北禁地 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, March-September 2023, PI.
- 'Trade Union Leadership and Political Change: Spain 1960s-2018',School Research Fund, Alliance Manchester Business School, Co-I.
- 'The price of bogus self-employment: Analysing the impact of the individualisation of risks on working lives', BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants 2017-18 Round, May 2018-May 2021, PI.
- 'The impact of the individualisation of resources on the self-employed', College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Research Fund, University of Leicester, PI
- ‘The fissuring of the Employment relationship in the Hotel industry’, Director of Labour Market Enforcement (BEIS), 09/2018-12/2018., PI
- 'Gender pay-gap as a multidimensional phenomenon. Analysis of the institutional, organisational and cultural barriers' (La brecha salarial como fenómeno multidimensional. Análisis de barreras institucionales, organizacionales y culturales), Recercaixa Program, 15/02/2016-15/02/18. Co-Investigator, PI: Pilar Carrasquer (UAB), Co-I
- 'Lost in transition: Employment insecurity and its effects in younger adult’s life courses in times of austerity in the UK and Spain', Beatriu de Pinós Fellowhsip (Marie Curie Cofund, contract number 600385), 7th Framework programme, European Commission - Government of Catalonia, October 2015-October, PI.
- Labour trajectories in UK and Spain. Analysis of capabilities in transitions using a mixed-method approach (TRANSICAP), Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship, 7th Framework programme, European Commission, ref. FP7-328223, May 2013-May 2015, PI (supervisor: Prof. Jill Rubery)., PI
Postgraduate supervision
I am interested in supervising research students on projects related to my areas of interest. Current PhD students:
- Hussain Yousef A Alqatifi
- Reem Albalwi
Undergraduate teaching:
- BUS3066: Critical Issues Human Resource Management: Pragmatic Dilemmas in Managing the Workplace of the Future
Postgraduate teaching:
- NBS8287: Global Employment Relations
- NBS8387: HRM in Cross-National Contexts
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Articles
- Monroe J, Lopez-Andreu M. . Economic and Industrial Democracy 2025, Epub ahead of print.
- Lopez-Andreu M, Martinez Lucio M. . Journal of Industrial Relations 2025, 67(3), 555-582.
- Mustchin S, Johnson M, Lopez-Andreu M. . Industrial Relations Journal 2023, 54(2), 117-131.
- Papadopoulos O, Lopez-Andreu M, Jamalian M. . Industrial Relations Journal 2021, 52(4), 315-330.
- López-Andreu M, Rubery J. . Economic and Industrial Democracy 2021, 42(2), 289-313.
- López-Andreu M, Verd JM. . Critical Sociology 2020, 46(6), 835-850.
- López-Andreu M. . European Journal of Industrial Relations 2019, 25(4), 309-325.
- López-Andreu M. . Sociologia del Trabajo 2019, 95, 73-88.
- López-Andreu M. . British Journal of Industrial Relations 2019, 57(2), 328-349.
- López-Andreu M. . Work, Employment and Society 2019, 34(4), 661-677.
- López-Andreu M. . Employee Relations 2017, 39(3), 408-422.
- López-Andreu M, Verd JM. . European Societies 2016, 18(4), 315-335.
- López-Andreu M. . Anuari de l’Institut d’Estudis del Treball 2016, 31, 113-127.
- Verd JM, López-Andreu M. . Papers. Revista de Sociologia 2016, 101(1), 5-30.
- López-Andreu M. . Sociologia del Trabajo 2014, (81), 27-49.
- López-Andreu M, Verd JM. Employers’ strategies, capabilities and career development in Spain. A comparative case analysis at two service firms. International Journal of Manpower 2013, 34(4), 345-361.
- Bartelheimer P, Verd JM, Lehwes-Litzmann R, López-Andreu M, Schmidt T. Unemployment, intervention and capabilities. A comparative study of Germany and Spain. Transfer. European Review of Labour and Research 2012, 18(1), 31-44.
- Verd JM, López-Andreu M. ‘La inestabilidad del empleo en las trayectorias laborales. Un análisis cuantitativo’ [The instability of employment in labour trajectories. A quantitative analysis”]. Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas 2012, (138), 135-148.
- Verd JM, López-Andreu M. The rewards of a qualitative approach to life-course research. The example of the effects of social protection policies on career paths. Forum: Qualitative Social Research 2011, 12(3).
- López-Andreu V, Verd JM. Les effets de la formation diffèrent selon les parcours sur le marché du travail: l’exemple catalán. Formation Emploi 2011, (113), 63-79.
- Verd JM, Vero J, López-Andreu M. Trayectorias laborales y enfoque de las capacidades: Elementos para una evaluación longitudinal de las políticas de protección social’ [Labour trajectories and capabilities approach. Elements for a longitudinal evaluation of social policies]”. Sociologia del Trabajo 2009, (67), 125-150.
- López-Andreu M. ‘La reforma de la prestació d’atur a Espanya en el marc de la Estratègia Europea d’Ocupació’ [The reform of unemployment benefit in Spain in the framework of the European Employment Strategy]. Papers. Revista de Sociologia 2008, (88), 11-30.
- López Andreu M, Lope A, Verd JM. 'El empleo subvencionado: entre las políticas activas de empleo y la mutación del salario’ [Subsidized employment: between Active labour Market policies and wage transformation]. Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales 2007, 25(12), 151-178.
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Book Chapters
- Lopez-Andreu M. . In: Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez and Miguel Martínez Lucio, ed. Work and Employment Relations in Southern Europe. Cheltenham - Northampton: Edward Elgar publishing, 2023, pp.113-136.
- Verd JM, Lopez Andreu M. . In: Otto H-U; Ziegler H, ed. Critical Social Policy and the Capability Approach. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Barbara Budrich, 2014, pp.207-230.
- López-Andreu M, Lope A, Verd JM. New Employment Forms. Reducing the Scope of Wage. In: Clasquin,B;Friot,B, ed. The wage under attack. Brussels: PIE-Peter Lang, 2013.
- Bartelheimer P, Verd JM, Büttner R, López-Andreu M, Schmidt T. Action publique et liberté de choix pour les chômeurs : étude contrastée de l’Allemagne et de l’Espagne. In: Salais,R, ed. Le travail réinventé. Un défi pour l’Europe. Nantes: Cabinet Martinez, 2011. In Preparation.
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Online Publication
- López-Andreu M. . Manchester: University of Manchester, 2020. Available at: .
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Report
- López-Andreu M, Papadopolous O, Jamalian M. . London: Director of Labour Market Enforcement, 2019.
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Reviews
- López-Andreu M. . Work, Employment and Society 2020, 35(1), 197-198.
- López-Andreu M. . Work, Employment and Society 2019, 33(6), 1071-1073.
- López-Andreu M. . British Journal of Industrial Relations 2018, 56(1), 234-236.
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Working Paper
- López-Andreu M. . QUIT Working paper series 2016, 20.