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Wake up call: how atypical work patterns affect our sleep and what we need to do about it

Posted on January 29, 2024 by Chris Garrington

In a fast-paced world where work schedules extend beyond the traditional 9-5 framework, the importance of quality sleep cannot be overstated. But sleep, a cornerstone of our overall health and well-being, is increasingly compromised by atypical work patterns with knock-on consequences for people’s health, productivity and the economy. As part of her PhD, Gill Weston…

Do family-friendly policies lead to long-term wellbeing?

Posted on April 6, 2023April 13, 2023 by Chris Garrington

France has long been known as a country where working parents are supported, with good family benefits and leave entitlements. But how good is the mental health of women who had full-time careers while bringing up a family in France? In this blog, Constance Beaufils of the National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris describes…

Unsocial working hours: are these compatible for parents and families?

Posted on July 5, 2022August 4, 2022 by Chris Garrington

A recently-launched Parliamentary inquiry is asking if policy needs to be changed to deal with the personal impact of night time or shift work. So how do unsocial working hours affect parents? Afshin Zilanawala from the University of Southampton and Anne McMunn from the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at University College London discuss…

Lockdown – just how stressful has it been?

Posted on January 5, 2021January 4, 2021 by Chris Garrington

2020 is a year many will be happy to see the back of. It has been a stressful time for sure with periods of lockdown creating major challenges for our day to day work and family lives. But have the stresses and strains associated with lockdown affected the mental health of the UK population as…

Working and caring: the mental health toll of combining paid work and childcare during lockdown

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Chris Garrington

Baowen Xue and Anne McMunn from the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies  at University College London discuss new research showing  that women spent considerably more time than men undertaking housework and childcare during lockdown and the knock on for working parents’ mental health, particularly that of lone mothers. They explain how the analysis adds…

Retirement: is it good for your mental health?

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by Chris Garrington

Retirement has traditionally been seen as a stressful time, with disruption to routines bringing potential health hazards. Recently this assumption has been challenged – maybe retirement could actually be a relief to many people.  But the evidence so far has been mixed. Now a new study by Maria Fleischmann and colleagues from the renEWL project at…

Are some types of job bad for your mental health? And how can employers ensure poor mental health does not lead to early retirement?

Posted on November 11, 2019October 29, 2019 by Chris Garrington

Mental illness is a major cause of early retirement – but do those who are forced to leave work early for this reason get better afterwards? What is the relationship between work stress and mental health? A new study of public sector workers in Finland suggests there is a link – and there are important…

Retirement: good or bad for your heart?

Posted on May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 by Chris Garrington

Across the globe, more people are spending more time in retirement than ever before. So staying healthy in later life is critical. Yet political debates on ageing tend to ignore a growing body of research on how retirement can affect our health. Baowen Xue and colleagues from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at…

Is working flexibly good for your health?

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Chris Garrington

Flexible working is considered good practice – and in England, most workers have the right to apply to work flexibly after they’ve been in their job six months. But what do we know about the benefits? A new study by Tarani Chandola and colleagues used biological measures to look at differences in stress markers among…

Working with a long-term illness – does employment status make a difference?

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Chris Garrington

Across the developed world, a growing share of the population suffers from chronic disease such as diabetes, arthritis or heart problems – in the EU, around 45 per cent of those aged 55-64 had such a disease in 2015. And that affects their ability to work: just half of those with chronic illnesses are employed,…

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  • Wake up call: how atypical work patterns affect our sleep and what we need to do about it
  • What can we learn from the pandemic about how life course studies can support occupational health initiatives?
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  • Pandemic parents: who was most affected?
  • Health and place: How levelling up health can keep older workers working

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