Prof Daiga Kamerade's Outputs (47)

Redrawing the boundaries of psychiatry and mental illness in Soviet and post-Soviet Latvia (2014)
Book Chapter

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.

Group role-play as a method of facilitating student to student interaction and making theory relevant (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Kamerade, D. (2011, July). Group role-play as a method of facilitating student to student interaction and making theory relevant. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment (ECE) 6th International Conference : Creativity and Engagement in Higher Education, The University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK

Group role-play as a method of facilitating student to student interaction and making theory relevant (2011)
Journal Article

Large group settings, which often mean less peer to peer interaction among students, are increasingly common in many UK universities. This paper proposes group role-play as one possible teaching method in a large group of students, and aims to evalu... Read More about Group role-play as a method of facilitating student to student interaction and making theory relevant.

Part-time work and activity in voluntary associations in Great Britain (2009)
Journal Article
Kamerade, D. (2009). Part-time work and activity in voluntary associations in Great Britain. Sociological Research Online, 14(5), 2. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.2049

This paper evaluates both the economic, or rational choice, and sociological theories to examine the effects of part-time working on employees' activity in voluntary associations. Using longitudinal data analysis of the British Household Panel Survey... Read More about Part-time work and activity in voluntary associations in Great Britain.

An untapped pool of volunteers for the Big Society? Not enough social capital? Depends on how you measure it....
Journal Article
Kamerade, D. An untapped pool of volunteers for the Big Society? Not enough social capital? Depends on how you measure it...

The key factor in determining the success of the Big Society in the UK is the availability of volunteers. How large is the pool of adults in Great Britain not already volunteering? To answer this question this paper adopts an under-utilised dynamic... Read More about An untapped pool of volunteers for the Big Society? Not enough social capital? Depends on how you measure it.....

A shorter working week for everyone? Possible implications for wellbeing, mental health and quality of life
Presentation / Conference
Kamerāde, D., Wang, S., Burchell, B., Balderson, U., & Coutts, A. A shorter working week for everyone? Possible implications for wellbeing, mental health and quality of life. Presented at Presentation at the SASE Annual Meeting, New York, USA

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.