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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.

Examining patient distress and unmet need for support across UK renal units with varying models of psychosocial care delivery : a cross-sectional survey study (2020)
Journal Article
Seekles, M., Ormandy, P., & Kamerade, D. (2020). Examining patient distress and unmet need for support across UK renal units with varying models of psychosocial care delivery : a cross-sectional survey study. BMJ Open, 10(9), e036931. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-036931

Objective: To examine in-centre haemodialysis patients’ emotional distress and need for support across UK renal units with varying models of psychosocial service provision. Design: The study used a cross-sectional survey design. Logistic regression a... Read More about Examining patient distress and unmet need for support across UK renal units with varying models of psychosocial care delivery : a cross-sectional survey study.

An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work (2020)
Journal Article
Balderson, U., Burchell, B., Kamerade, D., Wang, S., & Coutts, A. (2021). An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work. Time and Society, 30(1), 55-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x20953945

This article makes a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of why people in the United Kingdom without childcare responsibilities actively reduce or limit the amount of time they spend in paid employment. We show how the negative as... Read More about An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work.

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.

Cut hours, not people : no work, furlough, short hours and mental health during COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (2020)
Working Paper
Burchell, B., Wang, S., Kamerāde, D., Bessa, I., & Rubery, J. Cut hours, not people : no work, furlough, short hours and mental health during COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

The unprecedented shock to the UK economy inflicted by government measures to contain the Coronavirus (COVID-19) risked plunging millions of workers into unemployment as businesses were forced to close or scale back activity. To avoid that cliff edg... Read More about Cut hours, not people : no work, furlough, short hours and mental health during COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.