Developing the Centre for Time Use Research
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Sociology
Abstract
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Publications
Gershuny J
(2013)
The Continuing Gender Revolution in Unpaid Work
Gershuny J
(2008)
Comment on Krueger and Colleagues' NTA
in Social Indicators Research
Gershuny J
(2008)
Veblen in Reverse: Evidence from the Multinational Time-Use Archive
in Social Indicators Research
Gershuny J
(2009)
Activities, Durations and the Empirical Estimation of Utility
Gershuny J
(2009)
Harvey's hypercodes and the "Propogram" - More than 24 hours per day?
in electronic International Journal of Time Use Research
Gershuny, J
(2017)
The Evolution of Work: Exploit, Industry and Honour. A Long-Run International Analysis
in Futuribles
Gershuny, J.
(2015)
Time Use and Social Inequality Since the 1960s: The Gender Dimension
in Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Sonderheft
| Description | Gershuny has developed a means of calibrating survey questions on activity frequency with time use diary data in order to arrive at better long-term estimates of activity participation and duration. Two papers were published during the reporting period, in the Annals of Economics and Statistics and Social Indicators Research. The CTUR team continue to contribute to research on the measurement of wellbeing using information from the enjoyment of activities collected in time use diaries. One paper has been published by Gershuny in the European Sociological Review, and a further two are in progress. Our expertise was recognized by the invitation to Kan to act as advisor to the OECD (see under Knowledge Exchange below) in the construction of their measure of wellbeing. Scientific impact CTUR is involved (jointly with the University of Maryland) in an improved means of dissemination and user interface design for MTUS, known as MTUS-X, funded by the US National Institutes of Health . This is designed to parallel the equivalent ATUS-X and should significantly improve our utilization profile by enabling researchers to specify their own tables without downloading the data. Important connections have been established in the area of health research; CTUR researchers have made several presentations in this area over the reporting period, including developing links with a health research consortium at Oxford with the intention of submitting a joint bid for funding. David Berrigan from the US NIH visited CTUR for a month during the summer of 2012 in order to work on developing new funding opportunities using time diary data for the study of exercise and obesity, and we have also collaborated with Mohammad Sepahvand at the University of Uppsala and Roujman Shahbazian at Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms Universitet, Sweden, on the environmental impact of daily activities measured by time diaries. |
| Exploitation Route | The CTUR leads the world in the provision of cross-national time use materials and information. Our users have doubled in number since last year to approximately 2000 - from more than 50 countries. The Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS), constructed by the CTUR from nearly 80 nationally representative sample surveys in more than 20 countries, covers the period from the early 1960s to 2012. Two-thirds of a million comparable diary days of time use data are available for download from our website www.timeuse.org, which also provides extensive resources for the time-use research community, including access to both the MTUS and the AHTUS (American Heritage Time Use Study). |
| Sectors | Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Description | 1. Gershuny and Sullivan worked together with Independence Educational Publishers Ltd. to contribute material on men and women's housework and child care for an edition of Issues Today (designed for Key Stage 3 school students), entitled 'Challenging Gender Roles'. The Issues Today series is popular with both librarians and teachers, and our research is prominently featured. 2. Gershuny was invited to present our GPS/GSM project at the annual meeting of Trajectory Partnership (a commercial company set up to develop connections between academic research and business) for their private sector clients and other interested private sector companies. Over 100 business representatives attended, and feedback was very positive, leading to a further invitation to speak at a forthcoming meeting. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic |
| Description | Advanced Grant |
| Amount | £1,921,488 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | SCaEL |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 04/2014 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | BA Fellowship |
| Amount | £239,155 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2013 |
| End | 10/2016 |
| Description | Bird's Eye Consultancy |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Bird's Eye |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Conference and Workshop Support Grant for Time Pressure and Stress through the Life Course: UK-Korea Comparison |
| Amount | $15,000 (USD) |
| Funding ID | AKS-2018-C16 |
| Organisation | Academy of Korean Studies |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | NIH Grant |
| Amount | £144,892 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 09/2012 |
| Description | ONS Consultancy |
| Amount | £8,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Trajectory Partnership |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Trajectory Partnership |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Title | Multinational Time Use Study |
| Description | Professor Jonathan Gershuny first developed the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) in the mid 1970s. While working at the University of Bath with Sally Jones, Professor Gershuny developed a single dataset with common series of background variables and total time spent per day in 41 activities. The original MTUS allowed comparison of British time use data with the 1965 Szalai Multinational Time Budget Study and data from Canada and Denmark. The MTUS since has grown to offer harmonised episode and context information and to encompass over 60 datasets from 25 countries, including recent data from the HETUS, ATUS, and other national level time use projects. Professor Gershuny and Dr Kimberly Fisher presently manage the study in collaboration with other time use scholars. At present we are undertaking a wholesale upgrade of the MTUS. This includes removing some less used variables, adding new variables, new surveys, and upgrading the documentation. These changes will include the introduction of survey metadata variables alongside the time diary variables. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Over 200 academic papers citing the MTUS data. |
| URL | http://timeuse-cms.versantus.co.uk/mtus/access |
| Description | AHTUS-X |
| Organisation | University of Maryland |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | HTUS-X data extract builder is a collaborative project between the Maryland Population Research Center, the Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) at the University of Oxford and the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) dedicated to making it easy for researchers to use data from the American Heritage Time Use Study. CTUR is responsible for harmonization of the different surveys included in the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The MPC is responsible for delivering these data through this web-based data dissemination system. |
| Impact | AHTUS-X website developed and launched. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | AHTUS-X |
| Organisation | University of Minnesota |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | HTUS-X data extract builder is a collaborative project between the Maryland Population Research Center, the Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) at the University of Oxford and the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) dedicated to making it easy for researchers to use data from the American Heritage Time Use Study. CTUR is responsible for harmonization of the different surveys included in the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The MPC is responsible for delivering these data through this web-based data dissemination system. |
| Impact | AHTUS-X website developed and launched. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Capture 24 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with the Nuffield Department of Population Health on the research and design for calibration/validation of time use data using worn digital camera technology and motion sensing accelerometers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Specialist expertise in measurement of physical activity. |
| Impact | Publications forthcoming in BMC Public Health and Sociological Methodology. Multidisciplinary public health sociology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Circadian Rhythms and 24/7 society |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration with the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford. The CTUR provided research expertise, historical comparative evidence of past sleep patterns drawn from its time use data archive. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Specialists in sleep science. |
| Impact | Article in Journal of Sleep Research https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12753 Overturns conventional wisdom about historical reductions in sleep time. Multidisciplinary sociology public health opthalmology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Energy 24 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration with the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford investigating applications of time use research data and methods in the investigation of environmental sustainability through the relationship between lifestyle as revealed by time use data and energy consumption. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Specialists in energy demand and design of smart meter technology. |
| Impact | Topouzi, M., Grunewald, P., Gershuny, J. and Harms, T. (2016) Everyday household practices and electricity use: Early findings from a mixed-method approach to assign demand flexibility. BEHAVE, 4th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Coimbra, 8-9 September 2016. Multidisciplinary sociology environmental geography. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Consultancy |
| Organisation | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Consultancy advice on Kyrgistan time use survey |
| Collaborator Contribution | Financial contribution |
| Impact | Consultancy |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | MTUS -X |
| Organisation | University of Maryland |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of data extraction programme for the Multinational Time Use Study. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting the MTUS-X database as part of the IPUMS data download website. |
| Impact | 300 worldwide registered users |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Hosted the academic workshop 'Time Pressure and Stress through the Life Cycle: U.K.-Korea Comparison' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) hosted and organised the academic workshop 'Time Pressure and Stress through the Life Cycle: U.K.-Korea Comparison' funded by the Academy of Korean Studies. (Date: 30-31 January 2019 Venue: Nuffield College, University of Oxford) There were 12 presenters and 2 discussants in total for the six sessions covering the topics of Time Stress Among Young People, Paid Work, Timing and Stress, Harried Leisure, and Unpaid work: Caring. Each presenter submitted a Powerpoint or PDF presentation for the session topic and reported the findings on their recent work. The quality of presentation and discussion was very high, all visitors enjoyed and found the experience very useful, and the outcome was very promising for the future of UK-Korea time use research. At the future collaboration meeting, marking the close of the Workshop, it was announced that there might be a possibility of publishing a special issue of the journal on the subject of Korean time use, including a UK-Korea comparative dimension. The suggestion was to aim for publication of the special issue in the journal by the end of 2019, or in the early part of 2020. The objective would be to highlight Korean research on time use, offering the opportunity to introduce this research to an international readership, and providing a comparative dimension enabling the location of Korean findings within a comparative perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Keynote Presentation at the Oxford Women's Leadership Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Gender Inequalities in the Private and Public Sphere: Understanding Process of Change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.oxford-womens-leadership-symposium.com/presentations-and-symposia-programmes/ |
| Description | Presentation at the 40th International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the 40th International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference, which was hosted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest and IATUR. Discussions and sessions include: Gender Symmetry, Gender Convergence and Historical Work-time Invariance in 24 countries Modelling Long Term Time Use of Usual Behaviour: a Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Approach Using Time Use Data Lifestyle choices or structural position? Evidence of gender differences in covariates of BMI in Hungary 50 years of change updated: Cross-national trends in housework and childcare Analysing UK Leisure Time for the Digital Age/Economy Sunday Work and Couple Time Poster presentation on Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) Poster presentation on how qualitative data can improve time use studies from a feminist perspective |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.iatur.org/events/page/sessions |