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Four day working week, employee wellbeing and mental health (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Kamerāde, D., Burchell, B., Frayne, D., Bridson Hubbard, N., & White, J. (2023, October). Four day working week, employee wellbeing and mental health. Presented at Psychology Days, Riga, Latvia (Online)

This presentation explores the impact of a four-day working week on employees' wellbeing and mental health, drawing on the findings from the UK Four-Day Working Week Trial conducted in 2022.

The results are in: the UK's four day week trial (2023)
Report
Lewis, K., Stronge, W., Kellam, J., Kikuchi, L., Schor, J., Fan, W., …Mullens, F. (2023). The results are in: the UK's four day week trial

This report details the full findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, that took place in the UK from June to December 2022

Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace (2022)
Journal Article
Patel, T. G., Kamerade, D., & Carr, L. (2022). Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace. Work, Employment and Society, 38(2), 442-460. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170221134397

Existing workplace bullying literature suggests that ethno-racial minorities and women are more likely to be bullied in relation to their ethnicity, race or gender. However, very few studies apply an intersectional framework of analysis to consider,... Read More about Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace.

“Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing (2022)
Journal Article
Balderson, U., Burchell, B., Kamerāde, D., Coutts, A., & Wang, S. (2022). “Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing. Futures, 143, 103035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.103035

A reduction in the average length of the working week is a policy response which is gaining increasing political and popular support for its potential help to address a number of key societal challenges, particularly the declining health and wellbein... Read More about “Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing.

The same but different: a comparison between family volunteers, other formal volunteers and non-volunteers (2022)
Journal Article
Kamerade, D. (2022). The same but different: a comparison between family volunteers, other formal volunteers and non-volunteers. Voluntary Sector Review, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521X16572238373614

Extensive research has examined how family status, composition and dynamics affect volunteering, but not how family members volunteer as a group. This research note explores family volunteering – two or more members of a family volunteering together.... Read More about The same but different: a comparison between family volunteers, other formal volunteers and non-volunteers.

Volunteering together : inclusive volunteering and disabled people. (2022)
Journal Article
Donahue, K., Goodall, C., Jochum, V., & Kamerāde, D. (2022). Volunteering together : inclusive volunteering and disabled people

This research project is funded by Spirit of 2012 as part of its incubation fund to support inclusive volunteering and understand more about volunteering for disabled people. Disability is a common experience in the UK, two out of every five adults (... Read More about Volunteering together : inclusive volunteering and disabled people..

What matters more for employees' mental health : job quality or job quantity? (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Kamerāde, D., Burchell, B., Coutts, A., & Balderson, U. (2021). What matters more for employees' mental health : job quality or job quantity?. Cambridge Journal of Economics, beab054. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beab054

Recent debates about whether the standard full-time working week (35-40 hours) can be replaced by a shorter working week have received extensive attention. Using 2015 European Working Conditions Survey data, this study contributes to these debates... Read More about What matters more for employees' mental health : job quality or job quantity?.

Can Active Labour Market Programmes emulate the mental health benefits of regular paid employment? Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Coutts, A., Burchell, B., Kamerāde, D., & Balderson, U. (2021). Can Active Labour Market Programmes emulate the mental health benefits of regular paid employment? Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom. Work, Employment and Society, 35(3), 545-565. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020946664

Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs), which form important components of employment support policies around the world, have been found to improve mental health and wellbeing of participants. However, it remains unclear how these health effects com... Read More about Can Active Labour Market Programmes emulate the mental health benefits of regular paid employment? Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom.

From mobike to no Bike in Greater Manchester : using the capabilities approach to explore Europe’s first wave of dockless bike share (2020)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G., Adams, M., Blazejewski, L., Davies, N., & Kamerade, D. (2020). From mobike to no Bike in Greater Manchester : using the capabilities approach to explore Europe’s first wave of dockless bike share. Journal of Transport Geography, 86, 102744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102744

Globally, bike share schemes are an element of a rapidly changing urban transport landscape. Whilst many docked schemes are now embedded in cities around the world, the recent explosion of dockless systems provides an opportunity to evaluate claims t... Read More about From mobike to no Bike in Greater Manchester : using the capabilities approach to explore Europe’s first wave of dockless bike share.

Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England (2019)
Journal Article
Paine, A., Kamerade-Hanta, D., Mohan, J., & Davidson, D. (2019). Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England. BMJ Open, 9(10), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030243

Objective To examine the forms, scale and role of community and voluntary support for community hospitals in England. Design A multi-methods study. Quantitative analysis of Charity Commission data on levels of volunteering and voluntary income fo... Read More about Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England.

A shorter working week for everyone : how much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being? (2019)
Journal Article
Kamerāde, D., Wang, S., Buchell, B., Balderson, U., & Coutts, A. (2019). A shorter working week for everyone : how much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being?. Social Science and Medicine, 241, 112353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.06.006

There are predictions that in future rapid technological development could result in a significant shortage of paid work. A possible option currently debated by academics, policy makers, trade unions, employers and mass media, is a shorter working we... Read More about A shorter working week for everyone : how much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being?.

Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals : a multimethod study (2019)
Journal Article
Davidson, D., Paine, A., Glasby, J., Williams, I., Tucker, H., Crilly, T., …Marriott, J. (2019). Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals : a multimethod study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr07010

Background: Community hospitals have been part of England’s health-care landscape since the mid-nineteenth century. Evidence on them has not kept pace with their development. Aim: To provide a comprehensive analysis of the profile, characteristics,... Read More about Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals : a multimethod study.

Volunteering and employability (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Kamerāde, D. (2018, January). Volunteering and employability. Presented at Research Career Symposium, University of Salford

This presentation discusses the benefits of volunteering for employability and offers suggestions how to maximise those benefits.

When voluntary work makes you sick (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Kamerāde, D., & Bennett, M. (2017, November). When voluntary work makes you sick. Presented at Social (In)Security: Lived Experiences of the Benefits System, Manchester Museum of Industry and Science

Due to growing labour market deregulation and flexibilisation an increasing number of people are likely to experience unemployment and declining mental health and well-being associated with it. This article explores whether engagement in voluntary wo... Read More about When voluntary work makes you sick.

Agency workers and zero hours : the story of hidden exploitation (2017)
Report
Ball, M., Hampton, C., Kamerāde, D., & Richardson, H. (2017). Agency workers and zero hours : the story of hidden exploitation

This report highlights the extent and experiences of workers on temporary agency and zero-hours contracts.Using interviews with the workers themselves and data from the Annual Population Surveys it examines the impacts of hidden exploitation. It m... Read More about Agency workers and zero hours : the story of hidden exploitation.

Gender segregation, underemployment and subjective well-being in the UK labour market (2017)
Journal Article
Kamerāde, D., & Richardson, H. (2018). Gender segregation, underemployment and subjective well-being in the UK labour market. Human Relations, 71(2), 285-309. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726717713829

This paper argues that gender segregation influences patterns of underemployment and the relationships that underemployment has with the subjective well-being of men and women. Previous studies have paid little attention to how gender segregation sha... Read More about Gender segregation, underemployment and subjective well-being in the UK labour market.

Rewarding work : cross-national differences in benefits, volunteering during unemployment, well-being and mental health (2017)
Journal Article
Kamerāde, D., & Bennett, M. (2018). Rewarding work : cross-national differences in benefits, volunteering during unemployment, well-being and mental health. Work, Employment and Society, 32(1), 38-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017016686030

Due to increasing labour market flexibilisation a growing number of people are likely to experience unemployment and, as a consequence, lower mental health and well-being. This article examines cross-national differences in well-being and mental heal... Read More about Rewarding work : cross-national differences in benefits, volunteering during unemployment, well-being and mental health.

Is there a subjective well-being premium in voluntary sector employment? (2014)
Journal Article
Kamerāde, D., & McKay, S. (2015). Is there a subjective well-being premium in voluntary sector employment?. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26(6), 2733-2754. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9545-z

Previous studies have found that employment in the voluntary sector offers a so-called ‘job satisfaction premium’: despite lower salaries, voluntary sector employees are more satisfied with their jobs than workers in other sectors. This paper examine... Read More about Is there a subjective well-being premium in voluntary sector employment?.

Families who volunteer together : report on the state of family volunteering in the UK
Report
Kamerāde, D. Families who volunteer together : report on the state of family volunteering in the UK

This report uses nationally representative data from the United Kingdom Time Use Survey (UKTUS) 2014/2015 to examine –for the first time nationally and internationally - the extent and patterns of the household engagement in formal family volunteerin... Read More about Families who volunteer together : report on the state of family volunteering in the UK.