Fiona Carmichael

Professor Fiona Carmichael

Department of Management
Professor of Labour Economics

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 4146699
Email: f.carmichael@bham.ac.uk
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Fiona joined Birmingham Business School in 2007. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia (1989) and an MPhil in economics from Cambridge University (1985). Her first degree in Economics, Politics and Quantitative Methods is from The University of East Anglia (1983). Her main theoretical and empirical contributions are concentrated at the intersection between labour economics, the sociology of work and HRM, in health economics and in sports economics and policy. Current research is focused mainly around employment and policy issues linked to older age, the ageing society and the care economy.

Qualifications

1980-1983: BA(Hons) first class: University of East Anglia; Economics, Quantitative methods and Politics

1984-1985: MPhil: University of Cambridge; Economics

1985-1989: PhD: University of East Anglia; Multinationals in the Labour Market

1999-2001: Postgraduate Certificate in Further, Adult and Higher Education: Manchester Metropolitan University

Teaching

Advanced Business Economics (see )

Masters/Doctoral level:

Economics and Economic Policy for Business
Regression with Categorical Dependent Variables

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Carmichael is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

Gender, age and work
Informal care and paid employment
Economics of sport

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Atkinson, C, Carmichael, F & Duberley, J 2025, '', Maturitas, vol. 193, 108187.

Carmichael, F, Daley, P, Darko, C, Duberley, J, Ercolani, M, Schwanen, T & Wheatley, D 2024, '', Feminist Economics.

Kanji, S, Carmichael, F, Darko, C, Egyei, R & Vasilakos, N 2023, '', Journal of Development Studies.

Carmichael, F, Darko, C, Daley, P, Duberley, J, Ercolani, M, Schwanen, T & Wheatley, D 2023, '', Journal of International Development.

Drishti, E & Carmichael, F 2022, '', Personnel Review.

Drishti, E & Carmichael, F 2022, '', Communist and Post-Communist Studies.

Carmichael, F, Darko, C, Kanji, S & Vasilakos, N 2022, '', British Educational Research Journal, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 640-664.

Carmichael, F, Darko, C, Kanji, S & Vasilakos, N 2022, '', Feminist Economics, vol. 2022, pp. 1-38.

Stein镁贸rsd贸ttir, F, Carmichael, F & Taylor, S 2021, '', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1859-1875.

Carmichael, F, Darko, C & Kanji, S 2021, '', Education Economics, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 359-378.

Carmichael, F, Darko, C & Vasilakos, N 2021, '', Development Policy Review.

Darko, C & Carmichael, F 2020, '', Journal of International Development, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 487-504.

Carmichael, F, Darko, C, Ercolani, M, Ozgen, C & Siebert, S 2020, '', Economics Letters, vol. 189, 108996.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Atkinson, C, Carmichael, F & Duberley, J 2024, . in K Wilkinson & H Woolnough (eds), Work-life inclusion: Broadening perspectives across the life-course. 1 edn, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, United Kingdom, pp. 147-158.

Drishti, E & Carmichael, F 2022, . in W Bartlett & M Uvalic (eds), Towards Economic Inclusion in the Western Balkans. 1 edn, New Perspectives on South-East Europe, Palgrave Macmillan.

Expertise

Employment and training issues relating to ageing societies, the over 50s and informal carers

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Expertise

Health and Social care

Fiona Carmichael is an expert on employment issues faced by informal caregivers and older workers:

Caregiving over life-courses – costs and trade-offs
Barriers to employment faced by older workers
Career histories and outcomes in later life

Policy experience