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David Frayne is a sociologist specialising in the future of work and welfare. In the area of working time, his projects include research contributions to the UK four-day week pilot study, a feasibility study of a national shorter working week for Wales, and his ethnography of individuals voluntarily reducing their working hours (published in 2015 as a book, The Refusal of Work). David is currently employed as a fellow at the University of Salford, following positions as a Berggruen fellow at New York University and a research associate at the University of Cambridge.