Academic Profile

Brendan Burchell

Summary

Dr Brendan Burchell's first degree was in Psychology from Birmingham University from 1977-80. From there he went to Warwick University to take a PhD in Social Psychology, 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 (now PPSIS), specialising in the teaching of data analysis.

Recent projects and publications have included: the psychological consequences of unemployment, redundancy, work intensification and job insecurity; predictors and correlates of the transition into self-employment; managers' and employees' different perspectives on jobs, skills and opportunities; part-time work and gender differences in working conditions and careers; pay satisfaction; telework; geographically distributed work teams; new statistical methods for analysing work histories.

Brief CV

Employment

1990- University Lecturer, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies , University of Cambridge

1985-1990 Research Officer, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge

1984-1985 Temporary Lecturer in Computing and Statistics, Psychology Division, The City University

Research Interests

The effects of labour market experiences (e.g. job insecurity, work intensification, bankruptcy, unemployment) on psychological well-being. The social psychological effects of precarious employment and unemployment.

Analysis of complex work and life histories data.

Gender segregation, men’s and women’s life cycle and career.

Emotional reactions to personal finances: “Financial Phobia”.

Member of the Sociological Research Group

Teaching Interests

Data Analysis

Psychological aspects of Unemployment, work intensification and Job Insecurity.

Undergraduate Project Work

Selected Publications

Published Reports

Burchell, B.J. and Wilkinson, F.S. 1993. 'Sunday Trading and Premium Payments for Shop Workers in Small Shops' : Relationship Foundation.

Burchell, B.J. and Ely, M. 1997. 'Income, Wealth and Opportunity in Cambridge, 1997: A background document'. Cambridge: Cambridge City Council.

Burchell, B.J., Hudson, M., Ladipo, D., Reed, H. and Wilkinson, F. 1999. 'Working Conditions and the Quality of Care': Royal College of Midwives.

Burchell, B.J., Deakin, D. and Honey, S. 1999. 'The Employment Status of Individuals in Non-Standard Employment' : Department of Trade and Industry EMAR publications No 6.

Wichert, I.C., Nolan, J.P. and Burchell, B.J. 2000. 'Workers on the Edge: Job Insecurity, Psychological wellbeing and Family Life'. Washington DC: Economic Policy Institute.

Fagan, C. and Burchell, B.J. 2002. Gender, Jobs and Working Conditions in the European Union. Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Burchell, B.J. 2003 Identifying, describing and understanding Financial Aversion: Financial phobes. Report for Egg.

Elliott, John Sue Long, Barbara Walker, David Bridges with John Brierley Malcolm Brynin, Brendan Burchell, Sara Connolly, Mark Deas, Muriel Egerton, Kieth Hawkins, Geraldine Healy, Geoffrey Hinchliffe, Alison Lys, Ron Martin, Shaun Tyson 2004. The dynamics of the graduate labour market in the East of England A report by the Graduate Labour Market Policy Research Forum, EEDA/University of East Anglia.

Burchell, B.J. and Hughes, A. (2006), “The stigma of failure: An international comparison of failure tolerance and second chancing”, Centre for Business Research, Working paper 334.

Burchell, B.J. (2007), “The social, Psychological and Economic Costs of Job Insecurity”, Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University, Working Paper 25 (Language: Japanese).

Burchell,B., Fagan, C., O’Brien, C., and Smith, M, (2007), “Working Conditions in the European Union: The Gender Perspective”, European Foundation.

Burchell, B.J., Cartron, D., Csizmadia, P., Delcampe,S., Gollac, M., Illéssy, M., Lorenz, E., Makó, C., O’Brien, C. & Valeyre, A. (2009) ‘Working conditions in the European Union: Working time and work intensity’, European Foundation, October.

Peer-Refereed Journal Articles

Burchell, B.J. and Devereux, J. (19870. 'The Influence of Father's Unemployment on the Values of School Children'. Journal of Youth and Policy 21.

Burchell, B.J. (1987). 'Questioning to find out about people'. Questioning Exchange I: 43-46.

Horrell, S., Rubery, J. and Burchell, B.J. (1989). 'Unequal jobs or unequal pay?'. Industrial Relations Journal 20: 176-191.

Horrell, S., Rubery, J. and Burchell, B.J. (1990). 'Gender and Skill'. Work, Employment and Society 4: 189-216.

Burchell, B.J. and Rubery, J. (1990). 'An Empirical Investigation into the Segmentation of the Labour Supply'. Work, Employment and Society 4: 551-575.

Burchell, B.J. and Marsh, C. (1992). 'The effect of questionnaire length on survey response'. Quality and Quantity 26: 233-244.

Burchell, B.J. (1992). 'Towards a social psychology of the labour market: Or why we need to understand the labour market before we can understand unemployment.'. Journal of Occupational and Organisational psychology 65: 345-354.

Burchell, B.J. (1993). 'A new way of analyzing labour market flows using work history data.'. Work, Employment & Society 7: 237-258.

Burchell, B.J. (1996). 'Gender Segregation, Size of Workplace and Public Sector'. Gender, Work and Organisation 3: 227-235.

Burchell, B.J. and Yagil, D. (1997). 'Socioeconomic and political initiators of pay comparisons'. Work, Employment and Society 11: 737-748.

Burchell, B.J. and Wilkinson, F. (1997). 'Trust, Business arrangements and contractual environment'. Cambridge Journal of Economics 2: 217-237.

Burchell, B.J. (1999). 'The unequal distribution of job insecurity'. International Review of Applied Economics 13: 439-460.

Felstead, A., Green, F. and Burchell, B.J. (2000). 'Job insecurity and the difficulty of regaining employment: An empirical study of unemployment expectations'. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Burchell, B.J. & Fagan, C. (2004). Gender and the intensification of work: Evidence from the European Working Conditions Surveys. Eastern Economic Journal 30 (4): 627-642.

Kamerade, D. & Burchell, B.J. (2004). Teleworking and social capital: Is teleworking an isolating or a community-friendly form of work? European Sociological Review 20(4): 345-361.

Biggs, D. Burchell, BJ & Millmore, M. (2006) The changing world of the temporary worker: the potential HR impact of legislation. Personnel Review, 35(2) 191-206.

Lai, Y and Burchell, B.J., (2008), “Distributed work: communication in an ‘officeless firm”, New Technology, Work and Employment 23:1-2.

Biggs, D. Burchell, B.J. and Millmore, M., (2008) ‘The changing world of the temporary worker: the potential HR impact of legislation’, Human resources dispatching: Taiwan 69-91 (Translation from Personnel Review; 2006)

Smith, M. Burchell, B.J. Fagan, C. & O’Brien, C. (2008) Job quality in Europe. Industrial Relations Journal 39(6), 585–602

Burchell, B.J., Allen, R.P., Miller, J.K., Hening, W.A. & Earley, C.J. (2009) RLS and blood donation Sleep Medicine, 10(8), 844-849.

Burchell, B.J. (2009) ‘Flexicurity as a moderator of the relationship between job insecurity and psychological well-being’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2(3) pp. 365-378.

Allen, R.P., Burchell, B.J.,MacDonald, B., Hening, W.A. & Earley, C.J. (2009) ‘Validation of the self-completed Cambridge-Hopkins questionnaire (CH-RLSq) for ascertainment of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in a population survey’, Sleep Medicine, 10(10) 1097-1100 (December).

Burchell, BJ. 2011. “A Temporal Comparison of the Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity on Wellbeing.” Sociological Research Online 16. Retrieved September 28, 2011 (http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/1/9.html).

Other Journal Articles (not peer refereed)

Burchell, L.J. and Burchell, B.J. (1988). 'The Effects of Unemployment on Youth Training Scheme Leavers'. Journal of Youth and Policy 24: 20-24.

Burchell, B.J. (1994). 'Levels of pay regulation and managers' and employees' perceptions.'. Economies et Societes: les regulations economiques et sociales du Travail et de L'Emploi. Les decentralisations contemoraines. 18: 59-77.

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.

Book Chapters

Burchell, B.J. (1989). 'The social psychological impact of temporary and insecure employment: An economic dream but a psychological nightmare.' in T, T. and P, G. (eds.) Homo Oeconomicus: Presumptions and Facts. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences.

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. and Scott, A.M. (1994). 'And never the twain shall meet?... Lifetime Gender Segmentation and Work Histories.' in Scott, A.M. (ed.) Gender Segregation and Social Change. 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.

Burchell, B.J., Horrell, S. and Rubery, J. (1995). 'Gender and Skill' in Humphries, J. (ed.) Gender and Economics (reprint of Work, Employment and Society 1990 article). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

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.

Burchell, B.J. (1999). 'Pertaining to the Teaching of an Economic Psychology of Working Lives' in Walker, C. and Webley, P. (eds.) Teaching Handbook in Economic and Consumer Psychology.

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.

Ashton, B., Burchell, B.J., Davies, B., Felstead, A. and Green, F. (1999). 'Are British Workers Getting More Skilled?' in Borghans, L. and Grip, A.d. (eds.) The Over-Educated Worker? The Economics of Skill Utilisation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

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.

Burchell, B.J. and Fraser, C. (2001). 'Social Psychology of Work and Unemployment' in Morgunov, E. (ed.) Handbook of Human Resource Management. Moscow.

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. and Ladipo, D. (2002). 'Introduction' in Burchell, B.J., Ladipo, D. and Wilkinson, F. (eds.) Job Insecurity and Work Intensification. London: Routledge.

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.

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.

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