Alex J. Wood

University of Cambridge — United Kingdom

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

21h-index3.6kcitations80works3.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Digital Economy and Work Transformation(31), Employment and Welfare Studies(25), Labor Movements and Unions(23), Sharing Economy and Platforms(16), Taxation and Compliance Studies(6)

Publications80 total

Contesting Algorithmic Workplace Regimes in an Era of Flexible Despotism
Sociology·2025Open Access
A review of the role of <i>EFEMP1</i> in ophthalmic disease
Ophthalmic Genetics·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work
Work Employment and Society·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Gig economy
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks·2025
Michael Burawoy, 1947–2025
Work in the Global Economy·2025Open Access
Post-wildfire sediment source and transport modeling, empirical observations, and applied mitigation: an Arizona, USA, case study
Natural hazards and earth system sciences·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Generation Scotland Teenage Recruitment – Creating, evaluating and evolving a study sign-up process in collaboration with study participants and young people
International Journal for Population Data Science·2024Open Access
Generation Scotland – Transparency in the data access process
International Journal for Population Data Science·2024Open Access
What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want?
British Journal of Industrial Relations·2024· 13 citedOpen Access
Maternal plasma cortisol’s effect on offspring birth weight: a Mendelian Randomisation study
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Comment on egusphere-2023-2163
2023Open Access
Post-wildfire sediment source and transport modeling, empirical observations, and applied mitigation: an Arizona USA case study
2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Consent, Control, and Contradictions in the Post-Fordist Work Organisation
Critical Sociology·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Risk of Cardiovascular Events Post-COVID-19 in People With Pre-existing Chronic Respiratory Diseases
2023
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, <i>Organisational Misbehaviour</i>
Work Employment and Society·2023· 1 cited
Beyond Mobilisation at Mcdonald's: Towards Networked Organising
2023
Gig Rights &amp;amp; Gig Wrongs Initial Findings from the Gig Rights Project: Labour Rights, Co-Determination, Collectivism and Job Quality in the UK Gig Economy
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in the Remote Gig Economy
Sociology·2022· 60 citedOpen Access
Chapter 10 DATA (IN)JUSTICE, PROTEST AND THE (RE)MAKING OF SPACE AMONG FRAGMENTED PLATFORM WORKERS
Edinburgh University Press eBooks·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Influence of family history on penetrance of hereditary cancers in a population setting
2022· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Vili Lehdonvirta(13), Mark Graham(6), Brendan Burchell(5), Nicholas Martindale(4), Jessica Tyrrell(4), Isis Hjorth(3), Jonathan P. A. Gardner(3), RN Beaumont(2), Nicole M. Warrington(2), David M. Evans(2), Rachel M. Freathy(2), Debbie A. Lawlor(2), Maria Carolina Borges(2), Edward R. Schenk(2), Allen Haden(2), Gabriel Baca(2), Jake Fleishman(2), Joe Loverich(2), Magdalena Soffia(1), Kuangrong Wei(1)