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Brendan Burchell

Brendan J Burchell is a professor at the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science at the University of Cambridge and a professorial fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.[1] He was a director of graduate education in sociology 2008–2012 and head of the department of sociology from October 2012 to October 2014.[2] Burchell is the current director of studies in politics and sociology for Magdalene College and was the director of the Cambridge Undergraduate Quantitative Methods Centre (CUQM) between 2014 and 2018.

Burchell read his undergraduate degree in psychology at Birmingham University from 1977 to 1980, and went on to gain a PhD in social psychology from Warwick University researching person perception under laboratory conditions. He then took a one-year post at The City University teaching social psychology, statistics and computing. His career took a change of direction when, in 1985, he was appointed to the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge as a research officer to assist in a project entitled the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative, working collaboratively with economists, social psychologists and sociologists on a variety of aspects of labour markets and their effects on individuals. In 1988 Dr Burchell transferred from the Department of Applied Economics to take a Lectureship in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, specialising in the teaching of data analysis, psychological aspects of unemployment, work intensification, job insecurity as well as undergraduate project work.

In 2011 Burchell was awarded the Pilkington Prize, a University of Cambridge award for excellence in teaching.[3]

Burchell's recent research projects have included the effects of labour market experiences on psychological well-being, work intensification and job insecurity; predictors and correlates of the transition into self-employment; managers' and employees' different perspectives on jobs, part-time work and gender differences in working conditions and careers, restless leg syndrome and financial phobia.[1] He has held numerous research grants published widely in the academic literature; his work has been featured widely in newspapers and social media. In 2019 his team's work on the Employment Dosage Project received widespread media coverage in new sites such as The Guardian,[4][5][6] The Independent,[7] ITV,[8] the Telegraph,[9] the Metro,[10] and Vice.[11] He has supervised 25 PhD students.

Most recently, Professor Burchell lead a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge in monitoring a trial of the 4 day working week for 61 UK based companies. To date, it is the world's largest trial of the 4 day working week.[12]

Bibliography

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Selected publications Published reports

Other journal articles (not peer refereed)

  • Burchell, L.J.; Burchell, B.J. (1988). "The Effects of Unemployment on Youth Training Scheme Leavers". Journal of Youth and Policy. 24: 20–24.
  • Burchell, B.J. (1995). 'Exploratory Data Analysis'. Pharmacy Practice Research Resource Centre Bulletin 4: 9–12.
  • Burchell, B.J., Felstead, A. and Green, F. (1998). 'Insecurity at Work'. New Economy 5: 180–184.
  • Burchell, B.J. (2002). 'Les Conséquences Psychologiques et Familiales de l'Insécurité Professionnelle.'. Les Politiques Sociales 61: 100–115
  • Burchell, B.J. (2004) Identifying, describing and understanding Financial Aversion: Financial phobes. Argent.
  • Burchell, B.J. (2005) The welfare costs of job insecurity: psychological wellbeing and family life. Trends in social cohesion special issue: Reconciling labour flexibility with social cohesion – facing the challenge 15, 71–108.
  • Burchell, B.J. (2005) Les Couts sociaux de la precarite de l’emploi: bien-etre psychologique et la vie familiale. Tendances de la cohesion sociale: Concilier flexibilite du travail et cohesion sociale – Un defi a relever 15, 75–116.
  • Burchell, B.J. (2006) Anglais, encore un effort! L’intensite du travail au Royaume-Uni. Actes de la research en sciences sociales 163 (June) 91–100.
  • Brosnan, C & Burchell, B.J. (2006) Diagnosing restless legs syndrome: when words get in the way. Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry 10(3) 33–35.
  • Burchell, B. (2012). Book review: David Guest, Kerstin Isaksson and Hans de Witte (eds), Employment Contracts, Psychological Contracts and Employee Well-being. Work, Employment & Society, 26(3), 545–546
  • Burchell, B., & Wood, A. (2014, September). Beyond zero-hours: reducing the misery of insecure hours. Safety Management
  • Wood, A., & Burchell, B. (2015, April). What Dave, Vince and Ed don’t tell you about zero-hours contracts. Open Democracy
  • Wood, A., & Burchell, B. (2015, September). Zero hours employment: a new temporality of capitalism? Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom)
  • Kamerade, D., Balderson, S.U., Burchell, B., Wang, S., & Coutts, A. (2020) Shorter working week and workers’ well-being and Mental health. Centre for Business Research Working Paper No.522, University of Cambridge
  • * Burchell, B., Wang, S., Kamerāde, D., Bessa, I., & Rubery, J. (2020). Cut hours, not people: no work, furlough, short hours and mental health during the COVID019 pandemic in the UK. Centre for Business Research Working Paper No.521, University of Cambridge.

Book chapters

  • Burchell, B.J. (1989) The impact on the individual of the experience of precariousness in the labour market in the UK. In G. Rodgers & J. Rodgers (Eds) Precarious jobs in Labour Market Regulation: The growth of atypical employment in Western Europe IILS, Geneva.
  • Burchell, B.J. and Rubery, J. (1992). 'Problems in defining and typologising the self-employed: Some evidence from the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative ' in Felsted, A. and Leighton, P. (eds.) Self-Employment: Evolution and practice in Europe: Kogan Page.
  • Burchell, B.J. (1992). 'Changes in the Labour Market and the Psychological Health of the Nation' in Michie, J. (ed.) The Economic Legacy, 1979-1992: Academic Press.
  • Burchell, B.J., Elliott, B.J., Rubery, J. and Wilkinson, F. (1994). 'Job content from Managers' and Employees' perspectives' in Penn, R., Rose, M. and Rubery, J. (eds.) Patterns of Skill Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Burchell, B.J., Elliott, B.J. and Rubery, J. (1994). 'Gender and the structuring of labour markets' in Rubery, J. and Wilkinson, F. (eds.) Employer Strategy and the Labour Market. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Burchell, B.J., Horrell, S. and Rubery, J. (1994). 'Working Time Patterns, Constraints and Preferences' in Anderson, M., Bechhofer, F. and Gershuny, J. (eds.) The Social and Political Economy of the Household. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Burchell, B.J. and Rubery, J. (1994). 'Divided women: Labour Market Segmentation and Gender Segregation' in Scott, A.M. (ed.) Gender Segregation and Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Burchell, B.J. (1994). 'Who is affected by Unemployment? Job insecurity and Labour Market influences on Psychological Health.' in Gallie, D., Marsh, C. and Vogler, C. (eds.) Social Change and the experience of Unemployment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Burchell, B.J., Horrell, S. and Rubery, J. (1994). 'Part-time work and gender inequality in the labour market' in Scott, A.M. (ed.) Gender Segregation and Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Burchell, B.J. and Rubery, J. (1994). 'Internal Labour Markets from Managers' and Employees' perspectives' in Rubery, J. and Wilkinson, F. (eds.) Employer Policies and the Labour Market. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Horrell, Sara; Rubery, Jill; Burchell, Brendan J. (1995), "Gender and skills", in Humphries, Jane (ed.), Gender and economics, Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 512–540, ISBN 9781852788438.
  • Burchell, B.J., Dale, A. and Joshi, H. (1997). 'Part-Time Work Among British Women' in Blossfeld, P. and Hakim, C. (eds.) Between equalisation and marginalisation: part-time work in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ashton, D., Burchell, B.J., Felstead, A. and Green, F. (1999). 'Skill trends in Britain: trajectories over the last decade' in Coffield, F. (ed.) Speaking Truth to Power: Research and policy on lifelong learning. Bristol: Polity Press.
  • Nolan, J.P., Wichert, I.C. and Burchell, B.J. (1999). 'Job insecurity, psychological well-being, work orientation and family life' in Heery, E. (ed.) The Insecure Workforce: Routledge.
  • Burchell, B.J. (2001). 'Perceiving and Understanding People' in Fraser, C. and Burchell, B.J. (eds.) Introducing Social Psychology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Burchell, B.J. (2001). 'Research Methods' in Fraser, C. and Burchell, B.J. (eds.) Introducing Social Psychology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Fraser, C. and Burchell, B.J. (2001). 'The World of Paid Work' in Fraser, C. and Burchell, B.J. (eds.) Introducing Social Psychology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Burchell, B.J. (2002). 'The prevalence and redistribution of job security and work intensification.' in Burchell, B.J., Ladipo, D. and Wilkinson, F. (eds.) Job Insecurity and Work Intensification. London: Routledge.
  • Ladipo, D., Mankelow, R. and Burchell, B.J. (2003). 'Working like a dog, sick as a dog: Job Intensification in the late 20th Century' in Burchell, B.J., Deakin, S., Michie, J. and Rubery, J. (eds.) Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance. London: Routledge.
  • Rubery, J., Burchell, B.J., Deakin, S. and Michie, J. (2003). 'Productive Systems: Introduction and Overview' in Burchell, B.J., Deakin, S., Michie, J. and Rubery, J. (eds.) Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance. London: Routledge.
  • Burchell, B.J. (2006) Work Intensification in the UK. In D. Perrons, C Fagan, L McDowell K Ray and K Ward (Eds) Gender divisions and working time in the new economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Fagan, C.& Burchell B.J. (2006) L’intensification du travail et les différences hommes/femmes: conclusions des enquêtes européennes sur les conditions de travail. In P Askenazy, D Cartron, F de Coninck & M Gollac (Eds) Organisation et intensité du travail. Paris.
  • Biggs, D., Burchell, B., & Millmore, M. (2008). 臨時人員世界的變化：立法對人力資源可能造成的影響 (The changing world of the temporary worker: the potential HR impact of legislation). Taiwan: Human Resources Dispatching
  • Burchell, B. (2012). Quality of work: the case of part-time work in Italy. In T. Addabbo & G. Solinas (Eds.), Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work: The case of Italy (AIEL Series in Labour Economics) (pp. 175–188). Berlin: Physica-Verlag HD
  • Piasna, A., Burchell, B., Sehnbruch, K., & Agloni, N. (2017). Job quality: conceptual and methodological challenges for comparative analysis. In D. Grimshaw, C. Fagan, G. Hebson, & I. Tavora (Eds.), Making work more equal: A new labour market segmentation approach (pp. 168–187). Manchester: Manchester University Press
  • Burchell, B., & Wood, A. (2017). You are never secure: UK workers in the era of flexibility. In Z. Svendsen & S. Daw (Eds.), World Factory: The Game (pp. 324–327). London: Nick Hern Books.
  • Burchell, B., Coutts, A., Hall, E., O’Higgins, N., & Pye, N. (2017). Self-employment and entrepreneurship. In N. O’Higgins (Ed.), Rising to the youth employment challenge: New evidence on key policy issues (pp. 87–112). Geneva: International Labour Office
  • Sparkes, M., Gumy, J., & Burchell, B. (2018). Debt. In A. Lewis (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour (2nd ed., pp. 198–233). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676349
  • Wood, A. J., & Burchell, B. (2018). Unemployment and Well-Being. In A. Lewis (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour (2nd ed., pp. 234–259). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676349

Books, authored

  • Burchell, B.J., Earnshaw, J. and Rubery, J. (1993). New forms and new patterns of employment: The role of self-employment in the UK. University of Bremen: Zentrum Fur Europaische Reschts Politik.
  • Burchell, B.J., Day, D., Hudson, M., Ladipo, D., Mankelow, R., Nolan, J., Reed, H., Wichert, I. and Wilkinson, F. (1999). Job Insecurity and work intensification; flexibility and the changing boundaries of work. York: York publishing

Books, edited

  • Burchell, B., Ladipo D. and Wilkinson, F. (Eds) (2002) Job Insecurity and Work Intensification. London: Routledge.
  • Fraser, C and Burchell, B. with Hay, D. and Duveen G. (Eds) (2001) Introducing Social Psychology. Oxford: Polity.
  • Burchell, B.J., Deakin, S., Michie, J. and Rubery, J. (2003). 'Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance'. London: Routledge.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Department of Sociology: PPSIS Faculty, Academic Profile". Sociology.cam.ac.uk. 2011-09-28. Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
  2. ^ Department of Sociology, Cambridge University
  3. ^ "Raven login".
  4. ^ Chiles, Adrian (2019-06-20). "A short working week is good for your mental health – but it made me miserable". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  5. ^ Davis, Nicola (2019-06-19). "Just one day of work a week improves mental health, study suggests". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  6. ^ McNeil, Clare (2020-07-21). "Ending furlough is a catastrophic mistake: we should be cutting hours, not people". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  7. ^ Conrad, Duncan (2019-06-19). "Work just one day a week for peak mental health benefits, study finds". The Independent. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  8. ^ Anglia (2020-05-13). "University research: Calls for employers to cut hours, not jobs". ITV.com. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  9. ^ "Just one day work week enough give mental health boost Cambridge University finds". The Telegraph. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  10. ^ Parsons, Jeff (2019-06-19). "Mental health researchers say working 8 hours a week is the correct 'dosage' for our brains". Metro. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  11. ^ Love, Shala (2019-06-21). "The Case for an 8-Hour Work Week - Robots may be coming your job, but a new study finds we don't need to work that much anyway". Vice. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  12. ^ Burchell, Brendan. "The results are in: the UK's four-day week pilot" (PDF). Autonomy UK. Autonomy. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
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