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Publications

Culture and Organization Vol 21, pp. 386-408 (2015)

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Work, Employment and Society, pp. 1-11 (2026)

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European Journal of Public Health Vol 35 (2025)

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The Emerald Handbook of African Studies (2025) (2025)

Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management (2025) (2025)

Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol 46, pp. 96-117 (2025)

Teaching

I am the deputy programme director for the Intergrated Masters in International Business and Modern Languages (MIBML), and the programme director (Management) for the MSc Finance and Management degree.

I teach Introduction to International Business; International Business Analysis; Organising and Managing accross Cultures; Contemporary Issues and Trends in International Business; People, Work and the Global Economy; Comparative Employment Relations; Labour and Diversity and Research Methods for Projects.

Research Interests

My research is mainly international and twofold: first, I want to understand the dynamics of work in global south countries, from micro, meso and macro level perspectives; and second, I want to understand the experiences of workers from the global south who travel to more developed countries for work.

Work in the global economy is complex. The global south and migration patterns around it play an important part in deepening this complexity. Against this backgroumd, I am particularly interested in understanding the experiences of workers (domestic and migrant), employers and policy. This cuts accross themes such as social justice, rights, voice, dignity, , capabilities, health and wellbeing.Ìý

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Professional Activities

Participant

4/6/2014

Member

4/2014

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28/4/2014

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8/9/2025

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12/3/2025

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1/1/2025

Projects

Sambajee, Pratima (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2024

Sambajee, Pratima (Principal Investigator) Sarkar, Kingshuk (Co-investigator)

The working lives of small-scale fishing communities are at risk due to climate change and lack of protection to their labour rights. Often overlooked in research due to their scale and limited voice, the study uses the pillars of sustainable development goal 8, decent work and economic growth, in order to understand the lived experiences of small-scale fishers in two fishing dependent locations, Goa and Mauritius. The study is led by two investigators who have experience in policy-lead research on labour rights at each location. The overarching aim and intended impact of the study is to provide a platform for these communities to voice how their working lives are being impacted by the double disadvantage of climate change and limited labour rights, and to use evidence-based data to inform policy, create social dialogue between small-scale fishers and local stakeholders, and advance the measurement of decent work in other global contexts

01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026

Sambajee, Pratima (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026

Sambajee, Pratima (Principal Investigator) Mohd Yusof, Zatun Najahah (Researcher)

03-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025

Sambajee, Pratima (Principal Investigator)

The proposed project seeks to facilitate the communication of workers’ rights and general labour regulations in a diverse workforce. The idea originates from findings of an 18-months Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project funded by UKRI in 2020 (£199K), and a knowledge exchange (KE) activity (£2.2K) conducted in March/April 2023. Findings from the former project showed that both migrant and local workers had limited information on their rights, often leading to abuse and precarious working conditions (https://qlifeworkmauritius.com/). The 2023 internally funded KE project springboarded a series of workshops with public, private and third sector organisations, via the support of the National Productivity and Competitiveness Council (NPCC) and trade unions under the Confédération des Travailleurs des Secteurs Publique et Privé (CTSP). An important realisation was the need for better communication of workers’ rights and labour regulations to workers.Thus, the main knowledge exchange activity in the proposed project is a) to co-produce a series of approximately 8-10 multilingual audio-visual clips (the product) in partnership with CTSP, b) to pilot the product with 4 employers, c) to evaluate the outcomes for workers and managers, d) to disseminate the results using case studies, and e) to explore commercialisation opportunities of the product to be rolled out to unions and employers.

01-Jan-2024 - 28-Jan-2025

Sambajee, Pratima (Academic) Garvey, Brian (Academic)

Small island developing states (SIDS) are among the first and worst affected by climate change despite making a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change.. For over 20 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has played a key role in raising awareness of and implementing actions to manage the health risks of climate change, particularly global warming within SIDS (WHO, 2018) but the challenges remain. Risks can arise from direct exposures, indirect exposures and via economic and social disruptions (Smith et al., 2014). In this proposed research we focus on direct exposures to high atmospheric temperature extremes that are increasing in frequency and intensity in SIDS and are projected to continue along this trend (Hoegh-Guldberg, 2018). Specifically, we focus on Mauritius, an Indian Ocean-African SIDS, where there is an increasing trend of reported heat stress and heat-related injuries in the construction and agricultural sectors (ILO, 2019). We situate precarious work in the context of climate change, in this case extreme temperatures associated with global warming. We will examine climate change as a potential factor exacerbating experiences of precariousness among agriculture and construction workers, often migrants from global south countries like India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The study will collect evidence to (a) explore the relevance of climate change as a contributor and multiplier of precarity at work, and (b) produce occupational health policy-relevant evidence for workers in the two sectors. Both outcomes are timely for improving the climate change preparedness of relevant sectors in SIDS.

01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2027