Dr Karon Gush Senior Research Officer, University of Essex

Karon Gush
Email
kegush@essex.ac.uk
Office
2N2.4.23

Position

Karon is the Understanding Society Content Development Officer and works to identify and address questionnaire improvements to enhance data quality.

Research Interests

• Gendered inequalities
• Intergenerational support within families
• Women’s labour market participation
• The relationship between paid and unpaid labour
• Transformations of work, employment and training

Follow Karon on Twitter @kegush

Latest Blog Posts

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Latest Publications

Understanding Society Innovation Panel wave 15: results from methodological experiments

  1. Jim Vine
  2. Tarek Al Baghal
  3. Jonathan Burton
  4. Mick P. Couper
  5. Thomas F. Crossley
    6. , et al
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

How do participants understand and interpret questions about “retirement planning”?

  1. Lindsay Abbassian
  2. Beth Dokal
  3. Lucy Joyce
  4. Stephen Pudney
  5. Ricky Kanabar
    6. , et al
  1. Labour Market
  2. Older People
  3. Pensions
  4. Survey Methodology
  5. Psychology
  6. Household Economics

Spousal job loss

  1. Karon Gush
  2. James Scott
  3. Heather Laurie

Households’ responses to spousal job loss: ‘all change’ or ‘carry on as usual’?

  1. Karon Gush
  2. James Scott
  3. Heather Laurie
  1. Income Dynamics
  2. Household Economics
  3. Unemployment

Job loss and social capital: the role of family, friends and wider support networks

  1. Karon Gush
  2. James Scott
  3. Heather Laurie
  1. Labour Market
  2. Unemployment
  3. Social Capital

Households’ responses to spousal job loss: ‘all change’ or ‘carry on as usual’?

  1. Karon Gush
  2. James Scott
  3. Heather Laurie
  1. Income Dynamics
  2. Household Economics
  3. Unemployment

Households’ responses to spousal job loss: ‘all change’ or ‘carry on as usual’?

  1. Karon Gush
  2. James Scott
  3. Heather Laurie
  1. Income Dynamics
  2. Household Economics
  3. Unemployment

Households’ responses to spousal job loss: ‘all change’ or ‘carry on as usual’?

  1. Karon Gush
  2. James Scott
  3. Heather Laurie

Employment transitions and the recession

  1. Karon Gush
  2. Mark P. Taylor

Latest Media

Is there anything which can make men do housework – even if they are out of work?

  1. Karon Gush
  2. James Scott
  3. Heather Laurie

Why we stick our heads in the sand about the risk of unemployment

  1. Karon Gush
  2. James Scott
  3. Heather Laurie

I juggled work and the kids…then I went to university

  1. Karon Gush

Young people face double jobs penalty

  1. Karon Gush
  2. Mark P. Taylor

Young face greater struggle to find work than older job seekers

  1. Karon Gush
  2. Mark P. Taylor

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