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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?.

Growing up to belong transnationally : parent perceptions on identity formation among Latvian emigrant children in England (2019)
Book Chapter
Kamerāde, D., & Skubiņa, I. (2019). Growing up to belong transnationally : parent perceptions on identity formation among Latvian emigrant children in England. In R. Kaša, & I. Mieriņa (Eds.), The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational Belonging, and Diaspora Politics (138-155). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12092-4

As a result of the wide availability of social media, cheap flights and free intra-EU movement it has become considerably easier to maintain links with the country of origin than it was only a generation ago. Therefore, the language and identity form... Read More about Growing up to belong transnationally : parent perceptions on identity formation among Latvian emigrant children in England.

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.

Bike share in Greater Manchester (2018)
Report
Sherriff, G., Adams, M., Blazejewski, L., Davies, N., & Kamerade-Hanta, D. (2018). Bike share in Greater Manchester

Active travel offers cities opportunities to address vital challenges such as health, air quality and congestion. Bike share is increasingly evident in cities across the globe, whether in the more conventional docked form found in, for example, Londo... Read More about Bike share in Greater Manchester.

The minimum dose of work required to benefit psychologically from paid work (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Kamerāde, D., Burchell, B., & Wang, S. (2018, September). The minimum dose of work required to benefit psychologically from paid work. Presented at Work, Employment and Society 2018, Belfast, UK

This presentation presents first wave of findings from a project that examines what is the minimum number of working hours needed in order to gain mental wellbeing benefits from paid work.

Violent and non-violent crimes against sex workers : the influence of the sex market on reporting practices in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Connelly, L., Kamerade, D., & Sanders, T. (2021). Violent and non-violent crimes against sex workers : the influence of the sex market on reporting practices in the United Kingdom. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(7-8), NP3938-NP3963. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518780782

Previous research has shown that sex workers experience extremely high rates of victimization but are often reluctant to report their experiences to the police. This paper explores how the markets in which sex workers operate in the United Kingdom im... Read More about Violent and non-violent crimes against sex workers : the influence of the sex market on reporting practices in the United Kingdom.

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.

Civil liberties and voluntary work in six former Soviet Union countries (2016)
Journal Article
Kamerāde, D., Crotty, J., & Ljubownikow, S. (2016). Civil liberties and voluntary work in six former Soviet Union countries. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(6), 1150-1168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764016649689

To contribute to the debate as to whether volunteering is an outcome of democratization rather than a driver of it, we analyze how divergent democratization pathways in six countries of the former Soviet Union have led to varied levels of voluntary w... Read More about Civil liberties and voluntary work in six former Soviet Union countries.

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?.

Redrawing the boundaries of psychiatry and mental illness in Soviet and post-Soviet Latvia (2014)
Book Chapter
Kamerade, D., & Lūse, A. (2014). Redrawing the boundaries of psychiatry and mental illness in Soviet and post-Soviet Latvia. In M. Rasell, & E. Iarskaia-Smirnova (Eds.), Disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Routledge

The main argument of this chapter is that the enormous political, social and economic changes experienced in Latvia since the 1980s have created pressure on psychiatrists to expand their professional boundaries and develop more inclusive concepts of... Read More about Redrawing the boundaries of psychiatry and mental illness in Soviet and post-Soviet Latvia.

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.