Dr Emily Rose

Birmingham Law School
Associate Professor

Contact details

Email: e.rose.4@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Emily Rose researches the regulation of work. She adopts a social scientific approach to this inquiry, drawing on social and legal theory and engaging in empirical investigation. In her research, Dr Rose explores the way that law and other forms of state-initiated governance shape and constitute employers and workers. Her research also considers how emerging forms of work, such as innovation labour, and the managerial practices seeking to extract that labour, interact with labour law. Specific research projects have focused on digital technology startups, working time, flexible working and the employment tribunal system.

Qualifications

PhD (Sociology), Australian National University, Australia
MA (Sociology), University of Auckland, New Zealand
LLB, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Biography

Dr Rose joined Birmingham Law School in 2024. Prior to that she worked at the Strathclyde Law School, which she joined in 2011. Dr Rose has also worked at the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, Australia and SHORE and Whāriki, Massey University, New Zealand.

Dr Rose was admitted to the Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1997. She has worked in legal firms in Auckland, New Zealand, and in local authorities in London.

Teaching

Employment Law in Practice
Company Law in Context
Legal Solutions

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Rose is available to supervise doctoral students who wish to undertake socio-legal, and especially empirical, research on the regulation of work.

Research

Dr Rose’s current research explores forms of state-initiated regulation, beyond labour law, that shape practices at work and the employment relation. Her particular focus is on economic regulation to promote the innovation economy and the state-led professionalisation of care work. Dr Rose was previously awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship and has received funding from the AHRC and the Carnegie Trust.