Darja Reuschke’s research concerns changes in local labour markets and new forms and locations of work and businesses that are emerging through new technologies, economic restructuring, crisis and social change. One focus of her research has been on self-employment and home-based work and how these forms of working are connected with social context, city regions, housing and neighbourhoods. Her recent research investigates changing homeworking patterns and preferences and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted self-employment and people’s ability to work due to Long Covid.

Darja specialises in longitudinal data and secondary data analysis. She served as member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel for the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative 2018-2022.