Kate Purcell
Biographic Data
| ID | 247348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Purcell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Purcell |
| SIGNATURE | PURCELL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Employment Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6365-0364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Preschoolers' engagement with screen content and associations with sleep and cognitive development
Preschool children's exposure to screen media and associations with sleep, language, and cognition were investigated along with the time of day of screen exposure, content type, and whether use occurred with someone. Caregivers of Australian children, aged 2 years, 11 months to 5 years, 11 months, answered questions online about the durations children engaged with entertainment, relaxing/calming, and educational content. Fifty-nine percent of chi…
People Associate Us with Movement so It’s an Awesome Opportunity”
Insufficient physical activity (PA) is a critical public health issue especially in the context of COVID-related deconditioning. Health professionals are well placed to promote community-based PA but there is little supporting implementation research. We aimed to explore physiotherapists' knowledge, views, attitudes and experiences regarding the promotion of physical activity, exercise and sport within daily clinical practice in order to guide de…
On the uses and advantages of genealogy for international law
This article considers the relationship between the uses and forms of history within international law and questions of method in the development of histories of international law. It focuses on the advantages of genealogy as an approach to the history of international law given its capacity to both explain the way in which the law itself makes use of the past and intervene in this. Elaborating on the compatibility between genealogy and elements …
Fuelling displacement and labour market segmentation in low-skilled jobs? Insights from a local study of migrant and student employment
Medium-term employment trends highlight increasing labour market disadvantage for people with no/low qualifications. Consequently, established local populations with no/low qualifications have been reported as being hostile to 'new arrivals' filling local jobs, on the basis that they are perceived as taking employment opportunities away from them. Drawing on a local study of migrant and student employment on opportunities for people with no/low f…
The impact of partnership and family‐building on the early careers of female graduates in the UK
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the impact of partnership and family‐building on the aspirations, expectations and orientations to work of a sample of highly qualified women working across a range of industry sectors. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on both qualitative and quantitative data collected in a longitudinal study of the early careers of UK graduates, incorporating both a large‐scale questionnaire survey and…
Gênero e insegurança no trabalho no Reino Unido
O objetivo deste artigo é explorar a dimensão de gênero da insegurança do emprego no Reino Unido, focalizando, para tanto, as recentes tendências do trabalho temporário, que incluem o de prazo fixo, o sazonal, o sem vínculo empregatício, o contratado através de agência, o ocasional e outros tipos de trabalho temporário. Essas formas de trabalho são, inequivocamente, inseguras, sejam elas livremente escolhidas ou não. A primeira seção do artigo tr…
Changing Forms of Employment
During the last two decades there has been widespread evidence of change in specific aspects of employing organizations, employment and employment related institutions. Changing Forms of Employment looks at the underlying trends which generate pressures towards a fundamental reshaping of social institutions in three ways: changes in the organization of production, particularly those associated with the growth of service dominated economics; the e…
Time for Change
These books both explore issues of fundamental importance to those interested in the dynamics of work, employment and social integration and disintegration in contemporary societies. One is Australian and the other German perhaps an interesting polarisation in terms of the social centrality of the Protestant Work Ethic. Both are concerned with the impact of changing divisions of labour and the intensification of employment. Donaldson draws mainly…
The relationship between career and job opportunities
Points out that in virtually all cultures and within the majority of organizations, there are differences in the distribution of women and men throughout the workforce, with clear understandings about appropriate work for women and men and which incumbents of posts are in “gender atypical” occupations. States that women managers are a case in point. Explores the dynamics which lead to and reinforce gendered occupational segregation by focusing on…
Research on Gender
It is not so very long ago that sociologists, organizational behaviour, industrial relations and management theorists and researchers used to write books about employment and work organizations with virtually no acknow ledgement that the 'workers' and managers they wrote about were men or women. Now the gender segmentation of labour markets, industries, occupations and organizations is generally recognized as a theme that cannot be ignored. The g…
Women, work and family in Britain and Germany
Becoming clerical workers
The Experience Of Unemployment
Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities. This book reports findings from o
Women's work, men's work—The ambivalence of equality
Women, men and the division of labor
Working women, women's work and the occupational sociology of being a woman
Changing Forms of Employment
During the last two decades there has been widespread evidence of change in specific aspects of employing organizations, employment and employment related institutions. Changing Forms of Employment looks at the underlying trends which generate pressures towards a fundamental reshaping of social institutions in three ways: changes in the organization of production, particularly those associated with the growth of service dominated economics; the e…
Becoming clerical workers
On the uses and advantages of genealogy for international law
This article considers the relationship between the uses and forms of history within international law and questions of method in the development of histories of international law. It focuses on the advantages of genealogy as an approach to the history of international law given its capacity to both explain the way in which the law itself makes use of the past and intervene in this. Elaborating on the compatibility between genealogy and elements …
Fuelling displacement and labour market segmentation in low-skilled jobs? Insights from a local study of migrant and student employment
Medium-term employment trends highlight increasing labour market disadvantage for people with no/low qualifications. Consequently, established local populations with no/low qualifications have been reported as being hostile to 'new arrivals' filling local jobs, on the basis that they are perceived as taking employment opportunities away from them. Drawing on a local study of migrant and student employment on opportunities for people with no/low f…
Gênero e insegurança no trabalho no Reino Unido
O objetivo deste artigo é explorar a dimensão de gênero da insegurança do emprego no Reino Unido, focalizando, para tanto, as recentes tendências do trabalho temporário, que incluem o de prazo fixo, o sazonal, o sem vínculo empregatício, o contratado através de agência, o ocasional e outros tipos de trabalho temporário. Essas formas de trabalho são, inequivocamente, inseguras, sejam elas livremente escolhidas ou não. A primeira seção do artigo tr…
Working women, women's work and the occupational sociology of being a woman
Women's work, men's work—The ambivalence of equality
Women, men and the division of labor
The Experience Of Unemployment
Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities. This book reports findings from o
Becoming clerical workers
Women, work and family in Britain and Germany
Research on Gender
It is not so very long ago that sociologists, organizational behaviour, industrial relations and management theorists and researchers used to write books about employment and work organizations with virtually no acknow ledgement that the 'workers' and managers they wrote about were men or women. Now the gender segmentation of labour markets, industries, occupations and organizations is generally recognized as a theme that cannot be ignored. The g…
The relationship between career and job opportunities
Points out that in virtually all cultures and within the majority of organizations, there are differences in the distribution of women and men throughout the workforce, with clear understandings about appropriate work for women and men and which incumbents of posts are in “gender atypical” occupations. States that women managers are a case in point. Explores the dynamics which lead to and reinforce gendered occupational segregation by focusing on…
Time for Change
These books both explore issues of fundamental importance to those interested in the dynamics of work, employment and social integration and disintegration in contemporary societies. One is Australian and the other German perhaps an interesting polarisation in terms of the social centrality of the Protestant Work Ethic. Both are concerned with the impact of changing divisions of labour and the intensification of employment. Donaldson draws mainly…
Changing Forms of Employment
During the last two decades there has been widespread evidence of change in specific aspects of employing organizations, employment and employment related institutions. Changing Forms of Employment looks at the underlying trends which generate pressures towards a fundamental reshaping of social institutions in three ways: changes in the organization of production, particularly those associated with the growth of service dominated economics; the e…
Gênero e insegurança no trabalho no Reino Unido
O objetivo deste artigo é explorar a dimensão de gênero da insegurança do emprego no Reino Unido, focalizando, para tanto, as recentes tendências do trabalho temporário, que incluem o de prazo fixo, o sazonal, o sem vínculo empregatício, o contratado através de agência, o ocasional e outros tipos de trabalho temporário. Essas formas de trabalho são, inequivocamente, inseguras, sejam elas livremente escolhidas ou não. A primeira seção do artigo tr…
The impact of partnership and family‐building on the early careers of female graduates in the UK
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the impact of partnership and family‐building on the aspirations, expectations and orientations to work of a sample of highly qualified women working across a range of industry sectors. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on both qualitative and quantitative data collected in a longitudinal study of the early careers of UK graduates, incorporating both a large‐scale questionnaire survey and…
Fuelling displacement and labour market segmentation in low-skilled jobs? Insights from a local study of migrant and student employment
Medium-term employment trends highlight increasing labour market disadvantage for people with no/low qualifications. Consequently, established local populations with no/low qualifications have been reported as being hostile to 'new arrivals' filling local jobs, on the basis that they are perceived as taking employment opportunities away from them. Drawing on a local study of migrant and student employment on opportunities for people with no/low f…
On the uses and advantages of genealogy for international law
This article considers the relationship between the uses and forms of history within international law and questions of method in the development of histories of international law. It focuses on the advantages of genealogy as an approach to the history of international law given its capacity to both explain the way in which the law itself makes use of the past and intervene in this. Elaborating on the compatibility between genealogy and elements …
People Associate Us with Movement so It’s an Awesome Opportunity”
Insufficient physical activity (PA) is a critical public health issue especially in the context of COVID-related deconditioning. Health professionals are well placed to promote community-based PA but there is little supporting implementation research. We aimed to explore physiotherapists' knowledge, views, attitudes and experiences regarding the promotion of physical activity, exercise and sport within daily clinical practice in order to guide de…
Preschoolers' engagement with screen content and associations with sleep and cognitive development
Preschool children's exposure to screen media and associations with sleep, language, and cognition were investigated along with the time of day of screen exposure, content type, and whether use occurred with someone. Caregivers of Australian children, aged 2 years, 11 months to 5 years, 11 months, answered questions online about the durations children engaged with entertainment, relaxing/calming, and educational content. Fifty-nine percent of chi…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Work (physics (4 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (4 works)