Knut Laaser is a Senior Researcher and Interim Professor in the Sociology of Work at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Strathclyde and has a scholarly background in Sociology (MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science) and Socio-Economics (University of Hamburg). His research encompasses conceptual and empirical work on the issues of Meaningful Work, Moral Economy and the Labour Process. His research is published in leading academic journals such as Work, Employment and Society, International Journal of Management Reviews and Organization. More recently, together with Jan Ch. Karlsson, he co-authored The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and the WES Sage Innovation Prize-winning article “Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work” in Work, Employment and Society. He is an Editor of Work, Employment and Society and is editing the upcoming special issues on Moral Economy in Economic and Industrial Democracy (2025) and on Meaningful Work in International Human Resource Management (2026).