Is climate change making work more dangerous in Europe?

Mary McCaughey is Head of Information and Communication in Eurofound. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and the College of Europe, Bruges, she started work in Brussels with Europolitics and the Wall Street Journal Europe. She worked with the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) in South Africa during the country’s transition to democracy, and in 1998 she took up the post of spokesperson with the Delegation of the European Union in Pretoria, heading up its press and information department during the negotiation of the EU–South Africa free trade agreement. Following the end of the Kosovo War, she worked as a communications consultant for the European Agency for Reconstruction in Serbia. She took up the post of Editor-in-Chief in Eurofound in 2003.

Agnès Parent-Thirion is a senior research manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound, overseeing the planning and development of working conditions research. She plays a key role in the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), co-leading the preparation of and leading the questionnaire development for EWCS 2030. Her research interests include job quality, work organisation, gender, psychosocial risks and the impact of the green and digital transitions on working life. With over two decades of experience working on European comparative surveys, Agnès specialises in questionnaire development, coding of occupations, quality control and analysis. She is a graduate in economics and management from Paris IX Dauphine and Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne universities and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. She has also completed specialised training on AI leadership (MIT Sloan Executive Education) and the major challenges of transition (Campus de la Transition). Before joining Eurofound, she worked for a number of years in the European Commission.

Tina Weber is a senior research manager in Eurofound’s Working Life unit. Her work has focused on labour shortages, the impact of hybrid work and an ‘always on’ culture and the right to disconnect, working conditions and social protection measures for self-employed workers and the impact of the twin transitions on employment, working conditions and industrial relations. She is responsible for studies assessing the representativeness of European social partner organisations. She has also carried out research on European Works Councils and the evolution of industrial relations and social dialogue in the European Union. Prior to joining Eurofound in 2019, she worked for a private research institute primarily carrying out impact assessments and evaluations of EU labour law and labour market policies. Tina holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Edinburgh which focussed on the role of national trade unions and employers’ organisations in the European social dialogue.

Jorge Cabrita is a senior research manager in the Working Life unit, where he designs, coordinates, and manages Europe-wide research and disseminates its findings. His main areas of expertise include working conditions and job quality, working time and work–life balance, workers’ health and well-being, gender equality, and the socioeconomic impacts of the green transition. He currently leads research on working time developments and job quality in climate-vulnerable regions, and co-leads the implementation of the European Working Conditions Survey 2030. Previously, he was a researcher at the Centre for Studies for Social Intervention and the Research Centre on the Portuguese Economy, and worked as a trainer and consultant. He holds a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Socio-Organisational Systems of Economic Activity from the Lisbon School of Economics.