Nick Krachler

Biography

Nick Krachler is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at King’s Business School. He received his PhD and an MSc from Cornell University with specializations in human resource management, comparative employment relations, and work and occupations sociology. He also received an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics.

His research program studies mechanisms of institutional change in the care economy, including workforce innovation through new roles; market-making; and the regulation of work and employment. It compares change in the US, the UK and several European countries. His research has been published in Social Science & Medicine, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and Public Administration Review.

Nick also has work experience as a paramedic, a human resource management consultant, and a researcher for a European-wide project on ‘the Effects of Marketization'.