Trade Unions and Workers' Health: The core purpose of this project is to assess the relationship between trade unions and workers’ health taking a broad definition of what trade unions are and looking at several health indicators including physical and mental health and wellbeing. This innovative project will assess the specific dimensions the underlie such a relationship. We will employ several longitudinal British Birth Cohorts to examine the extent to which trade union membership and trade union presence within the company as well as changes in the collective bargaining structure over the life course are associated with changes in health outcomes.

Euthanasia Trends in Belgium: Reported assisted dying cases have increased in countries with such legislation. In Belgium, where euthanasia was legalized in 2002, cases rose from 236 in 2003 to 3,423 in 2023. While most studies focus on occurrence rates, this study examines the magnitude of increase and the contribution of demographic changes observed over the period. Our project analyses complete data from the Belgian Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia (FCCEE). Using Poisson regression, we calculated Rate Ratios (RR) by age, gender, region, and euthanasia characteristics.

Social protection for the Thai elderly: In collaboration with Naresuan University, we use cross-national and longitudinal data to address how the recent changes in social security schemes for the elderly have affected their mental health and wellbeing.

Sleep duration and quality and workers’ wellbeing: There is a significant gap in sleep duration across countries with 56 percent of the Japanese population sleeps less than seven hours per day against around 30 percent in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, and Australia. Similarly, labour market characteristics differ across these countries, with average working hours being higher in Australia and Japan compared to the UK and Germany, but with a significant number of contract and part-time workers. This research aims to address how employment status and working time associate with sleep time and sleep quality across Japan, the UK, Germany, and Australia using longitudinal data. In collaboration with the National University of Singapore and Waseda University (Japan).
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