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Dr Kate A. Hamblin

James Martin Research Fellow

BSc, MRes Bath

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 612816
E-mail: kate.hamblin@ageing.ox.ac.uk

Research

Kate Hamblin joined the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing in January 2009 to work with Dr. Andreas Hoff on the ‘Carers@Work. Combining Job and Care - Conflict or Opportunity’ project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. This project seeks address the experience of combining paid work with looking after an older person in terms of the difficulties faced and the strategies used to create a balance. The project has partners in Germany, Italy and Poland and is looking for transferable, innovative solutions for employers to enable their workforce to balance care and work.

Kate also worked on the Dulwich Picture Gallery project with Professor Sarah Harper, which evaluated their community outreach programmes for older individuals.

Kate currently works on the AKTIVE project (Advancing Knowledge of Telecare for Independence and Vitality in later life). This project, funded by the Technology Strategy Board and ESRC through the Assisted Living Innovation Platform, will be conducted in collaboration with the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE, University of Leeds), Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd and Inventya Solutions Ltd from June 2011 – May 2014. The AKTIVE project explores the potential of telecare to: improve the quality of life of older individuals with dementia / susceptibility to falls and sustain their independence; enable family caregivers to continue their care / support of older family members alongside work and other roles; and enhance and modernise social care / support in a cost-effective way.

Kate has received PhD from the University of Bath in 2010. Her thesis addressed the changes to policies for work and retirement transitions for those over 50 in EU15 nations over the period of 1995-2005, with a particular focus on the uneven impact of these reforms upon different sub-groups within this age category. She is currently preparing a publication for Palgrave based on this research.

Research Grants / Awards:

  • ESRC 1+3 award for M.Res. and Ph.D.
  • Royal Society for Public Health Arts and Health Research Award 2011 for ‘“This is Living”- Good Times: Art for Older People at Dulwich Picture Gallery’

Conference Papers:

  • Hamblin, K. and Hoff. A. (2011). Carers@Work: Reconciling Employment and Care for Older Family Members in Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK, Social Policy Association Annual Conference 4-6th July 2011.
  • Principi, A., Hoff, A.,  Santini, S.,  Hamblin, K. & Lamura, G. (2010): Intergenerational Ambivalences in Combining Employment with Care-giving to Older Parents in Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK, Paper given at the 5th Congress of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) in Milan, Italy, September 29 – October 2, 2010.
  • Hamblin, K. and Hoff. A. (2010). Carers@Work- reconciling employment and care for older family members in Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK, 5th International Carers Conference- New frontiers in caring: 2010 and beyond, Carers UK, Leeds, 9th-11th July 2010.

Publications:

  • Harper, S. and Hamblin, K. (2010). This is Living- A Review of the Good Times Programme, in London: the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Clore Duffield Foundation.
  • Hamblin, K. (2010). Changes to policies for work and retirement in EU15 nations (1995-2005): an exploration of policy packages for the 50-plus cohort, International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, Special Issue: Ageing Societies and the Welfare State, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 13-43.
  • Carmel, E; Hamblin, K. and Papadopoulos, T. (2007). Governing the activation of older workers in the European Union: The construction of the ‘activated retiree’, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 27, Issue 9/10: 387 – 400.
  • Hamblin, K. (2006). Older and Unemployed: The experience of unemployment and the new configuration of 'rights and responsibilities' in the UK, ERI Working Paper Series, WP - 06 – 02: http://www.bath.ac.uk/eri/ERI-working-papers/ERI-working-paper-06-02-final.pdf.

Recent professional commitments

  • Chair of Publications Committee.
  • Editor of the Visitor Paper Series.
  • Mentor for visiting fellows.