Glasgow Caledonian University

Tom Montgomery

Tom Montgomery

Researcher

Glasgow Caledonian University

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• Thomas.Montgomery@gcu.ac.uk

Tom Montgomery is a postdoctoral researcher at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University. His research focuses on issues of labour market policy, solidarity, social movements and civil society. Tom holds an MA (Hons) in Politics from the University of Glasgow, an MSc in Political Research from the University of Strathclyde and a PhD from Glasgow Caledonian University which examined the role of social innovation in addressing youth employment issues in the west of Scotland.

Tom has worked as the researcher on the Horizon 2020 project ‘TransSOL’ (Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crisis) which examined the attitudes and practices of solidarity across eight European countries with the unemployed/precariously employed, disabled people and migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. He has also been conducting research as part of the Horizon 2020 project ‘SIRIUS’: Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets) which seeks to establish a systematic body of evidence on the potential for the labour market integration of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers across seven European countries. Tom has also been working as the UK researcher as part of a comparative project funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies on the gig economy ‘GIG’ which examines the prospects for social dialogue across four European countries in the context of the changing world of work.

Tom has previously worked with public, private and third sector stakeholders across a number of public policy initiatives focused upon education, employability and health.