Professor Brendan Burchell
- Emeritus Professor in the Social Sciences
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About
Professor Brendan Burchell's first degree was in Psychology from the University of Birmingham 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 Professor Burchell transferred from the Department of Applied Economics to take a Lectureship in the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science.
Awards
Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Cambridge University (2011)
Research
Research interests
- Politics and Inequality
- Job insecurity
- Work intensification
- Bankrupty
- Zero hours contracts
- Part-time work
- Unemployment
- Effects of labour market experiences on psychological well-being
- Social psychological effects of precarious employment and unemployment
- Gender segregation
- Emotional reactions to personal finances
Research Groups and Affiliations
Individual in the Labour Market Reading group
Grants and Projects
GCRF / RCUK Research for Health in Conflict (R4HC) 2018 - 2022. The political economy of health in the Arab region. CO-I and lead of the political economy of health component. 650K.
Burchell, B. ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, ‘Deepening the health and safety discourse on zero hours employment’, March 2015 – December 2015, £9,821
Burchell, B. The Racing Foundation, ‘The quality of employment in horseracing industry’, September 2015 – August 2016, pilot funding £5,000
Burchell, B. (PI) Self-employment programmes for young people: a review of the context, policies and evidence. International Labour Organisation (2015): £15,000
Burchell, B. (PI) A new method to analyse occupational gender segregation. European Commission (2015): £20,000
Burchell, B. (PI) Gender and working conditions. European Foundation (2012): £30,000
Burchell, B & Annor, F. Self-employment and family life: A study of workers in Ghana's informal sector. Cambridge-Africa Alborada Research Fund (2017): £6000
Publications
Books
- Burchell, B.J., Ladipo D. and Wilkinson, F. (Eds) 2002. Job Insecurity and Work Intensification. London: Routledge pp i-xi & p1-227.
Book Chapters
- Sparkes, M., Gumy, J. & Burchell B. (2018) "Debt." In A. Lewis (Ed) Cambridge handbook of psychology and economic behavior. Cambridge University Press.
- Wood, A. & Burchell B. (2018) "Unemployment and Well-being" In A. Lewis (Ed) Cambridge handbook of psychology and economic behavior. Cambridge University Press
- Burchell, B.J., Coutts, A., Hall, E., O’Higgins, N. & Pye, N (2017) "Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship" In Rising to the Youth Employment Challenge: New Evidence on Key Policy Issues, Ed N. O’Higgins, Geneva: ILO.
- Burchell, B & Wood, A. (2017) "You are never Secure: UK workers in the era of Flexibility" in Svendsen, Z., & Daw, S. World Factory: The Game. Nick Hern Books.
- Piasna, A., Burchell, B.J., Sehnbruch, K. & Agloni, N. (2017) "Job Quality: Conceptual and methodological challenges for comparative analysis." In Making Work More Equal: A New Labour Market Segmentation Approach. Eds D. Grimshaw, C. Fagan, G. Hebson, & I Tavora. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
- Sparkes, M., Gumy, J. and Burchell, B. (2017), “Debt: Beyond Homo Economicus”. In A. Lewis (Ed). Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour (Second Edition), pp. 198-233, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
- Miller, J., Brewin, C., Soffia, M., Elliott-Davies, M., Burchell, B., & Peart, A. (2021). The development of a UK police traumatic events checklist. The Police Journal.
- Kroeger, F., Racko, G., Burchell, B (2021) How to create trust quickly: A comparative empirical investigation of the bases of swift trust. Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 129–150
- Wang, S, Coutts, A P, Burchell, B., Kamerade, D., Balderson, U. (2020) Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom. Work, Employment and Society.
- Balderson, U, Wang, S, Burchell, B., Kamerade, D., Coutts A P (2020) An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work. Time and Society.
- Brewin, C.B., Miller, J.K., Soffia, M., Burchell, B. (2020). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in U.K. Police Officers. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
- Burchell, B., Reuschke, D., Zhang, M. (2020) Spatial and temporal segmenting of urban workplaces: The gendering of multi-locational working. Urban Studies
- Burchell B J, Coutts A P (2019) The Experience of Self-Employment Among Young People: An Exploratory Analysis of 28 Low- to Middle-Income Countries. American Behavioral Scientist, 63(2), 147–165.
- Didriksen, M., Rigas, A. S., Allen, R. P., Burchell, B. J., Angelantonio, E. Di, Nielsen, M. H., … Ullum, H.. Prevalence of restless legs syndrome and associated factors in an otherwise healthy population: results from the Danish Blood Donor Study. sleep. (2017)
- Didriksen, M T Hansen, A Rigas, R Allen, B Burchell, L Thørner, K Nielsen, E Di Angelantonio, M Nielsen, Poul Jennum, Thomas Werge, Christian Erikstrup, O Pedersen, H Paarup, Henrik Hjalgrim, M Bruun, K Burgdorf, E Sørensen, Henrik Ullum, 'Comorbidities to restless legs syndrome–results from the Danish blood donor study' Sleep Medicine 40, e79 (2017)
- F Annor, B Burchell A cross-national comparative study of work demands/support, work-to-family conflict and job outcomes: Ghana versus the United Kingdom. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, (2017)
- Kamerāde D, Wang S, Burchell B, Balderson S U, Coutts A P (2019) A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being? Social Science & Medicine.
- Racko, G., Strauss, K. and Burchell, B. ‘Economics Education and Value Change: The Role of Program Normative Homogeneity and Peer Influence’ Academy of Management Learning and Education. (2016) Doi:10.5465/amle.2014.0280
- O'Reilly, J., Smith, M., Deakin, S. and Burchell, B. Equal Pay as a Moving Target: International perspectives on forty years of addressing the gender pay gap. Cambridge Journal of Economics (2015) 39 (2):299-317
- Sehnbruch, K., Burchell, B., Agloni, N. and Piasna, A. Human Development and Decent Work: Why some concepts succeed and others fail to make an impact. Development and Change (2015) 46 (2)
- Burchell B, Sehnbruch K, Piasna A and Agloni N (2014). The Quality of Employment and Decent Work: Definition, Methodologies and Ongoing Debates. Cambridge Journal of Economics 2014, 38: 459-477.
- Shapiro, G.K. & Burchell, B.J. Measuring Financial Anxiety. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics. (2012) 5(2) 92-103.
- Burchell, B.J., A Temporal Comparison of the Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity on Wellbeing. Sociological Research Online 16 (1). (2011).
- Burchell, B.J., Allen, R.P., Miller, J.K., Hening, W.A. & Earley, C.J., 2009. RLS and blood donation. Sleep Medicine, (2009) 10(8), 844-849.
- Burchell, B.J. Flexicurity as a moderator of the relationship between job insecurity and psychological well-being. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (2009) 2(3) Pp. 365-378.
Other
- Burchell, B., Coutts, A., Hall, E. and Pye, N. 2016. Self-employment programmes for young people: A review of the context, policies and evidence. ILO Employment Working Paper No. 198.
- Burchell, B., Hardy, V., Rubery, J. & Smith, M. 2014. A new method to understand occupational gender segregation in European labour markets. Report for the European Commission.
- Smith, M., Piasna, A., Burchell, B., Rubery, J., Rafferty, A., Rose, J. and Carter, L. 2013. Women, men and working conditions in Europe, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.