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Overview

Jonathan Gershuny is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans various domains connected primarily to health, social behavior, and epidemiology.

The scientist has coauthored multiple papers focusing on topics such as COVID-19 epidemiological studies, context-aware activity recognition systems, mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness and social issues, and physical activity and mobile health applications.

Their recent publications include:

  • United Kingdom Time Use Survey, 2014-2015, 2023, UK Data Archive
  • A new perspective from time use research on the effects of social restrictions on COVID-19 behavioral infection risk, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Using time-use diaries to track changing behavior across successive stages of COVID-19 social restrictions, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • CAPTURE-24: A large dataset of wrist-worn activity tracker data collected in the wild for human activity recognition, 2024, Scientific Data
  • Time use diary design for our times - an overview, presenting a Click-and-Drag Diary Instrument (CaDDI) for online application, 2020, Journal of Time Use Research

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Teresa Harms
  • Oriel Sullivan
  • Almudena Sevilla
  • Pierre Walthéry
  • Francesca Foliano

They have published in venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Time Use Research

The main subfields of study in their work include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Demography
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Clinical Psychology

The key research topics they cover are:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Best Publications

  • Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society

    Jonathan Gershuny

  • The informal economy

    J.I. Gershuny

  • After Industrial Society?: The Emerging Self-Service Economy

    Jonathan Gershuny

  • Social innovation and the division of labour

    Jonathan Gershuny

  • Gender Convergence in Domestic Work: Discerning the Effects of Interactional and Institutional Barriers from Large-scale Data:

    Man Yee Kan;Oriel Sullivan;Jonathan Gershuny

  • Historical changes in the household division of labor

    Jonathan Gershuny;John P. Robinson

  • Post-Industrial Society: The myth of the service economy

    J.I. Gershuny

  • Busyness as the Badge of Honor for the New Superordinate Working Class

    Jonathan Gershuny

  • Exit, Voice, and Suffering: Do Couples Adapt to Changing Employment Patterns?

    Jonathan Gershuny;Michael Bittman;John Brice

  • The new service economy : the transformation of employment in industrial societies

    J. I. Gershuny;Ian Miles

  • Time Use, Gender, and Public Policy Regimes

    Jonathan Gershuny;Oriel Sullivan

  • The Social and Political Economy of the Household

    Michael Anderson;Frank Bechhofer;J. I. Gershuny

  • Web Use and Net Nerds: A Neofunctionalist Analysis of the Impact of Information Technology in the Home

    Jonathan Gershuny

  • The new service economy

    Jonathan Gershuny

  • Stalled or Uneven Gender Revolution? A Long‐Term Processual Framework for Understanding Why Change Is Slow

    Oriel Sullivan;Jonathan Gershuny;John P. Robinson

  • Cross-national changes in time-use: some sociological (hi)stories re-examined

    Oriel Sullivan;Jonathan Gershuny

  • Inconspicuous Consumption Work-Rich, Time-Poor in the Liberal Market Economy

    Oriel Sullivan;Jonathan Gershuny

  • Gender Convergence in the American Heritage Time use Study (AHTUS)

    Kimberly Fisher;Muriel Egerton;Jonathan I. Gershuny;John P. Robinson

  • Testing Self-Report Time-Use Diaries against Objective Instruments in Real Time:

    Jonathan Gershuny;Teresa Harms;Aiden Doherty;Emma Thomas

  • After industrial society

    Jonathan Gershuny

  • Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society

    Jerry A. Jacobs;Jonathan Gershuny

  • After Industrial Society: The Emerging Self-Service Economy.@@@Post-Industrial Society.

    James P. Hawley;Jonathan Gershuny;Bo Gustafsson

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Robinson
John P. Robinson University of Maryland, College Park
Tanja van der Lippe
Tanja van der Lippe Utrecht University
Michael Bittman
Michael Bittman University of New England
Charlie Foster
Charlie Foster University of Bristol
Sandra L. Hofferth
Sandra L. Hofferth University of Maryland, College Park
Russell G. Foster
Russell G. Foster University of Oxford
Jerry A. Jacobs
Jerry A. Jacobs University of Pennsylvania
Robert A. Stebbins
Robert A. Stebbins University of Calgary

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