Research project
ARISE - ARthrItiS and Employment
- Start date: 1 September 2023
- End date: 30 September 2026
- Value: £299,953
- Partners and collaborators: Funders: Oliver Bird Fund, The Nuffield Foundation, Versus Arthritis
- Primary investigator: Dr Adam Martin
- Co-investigators: Dr Sarah Kingsbury, Professor Philip Conaghan, Max Henderson, Dr Edward Webb, Dr Adam Martin
- External co-investigators: Professor Louisa Ells (Leeds Beckett University) Chris McIlveen (Patient Research Partner)
Description
Joint Principal Investigators – Dr Adam Martin and Dr Sarah Kingsbury
Arthritis is a common condition in the UK with estimates suggesting 10 million people may have osteoarthritis, whilst 450,000 have rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis has a range of consequences for health and wellbeing. However, the impact of arthritis upon paid work is less clear. The experiences of people with arthritis in the workplace are important to understand as more than one-in-ten working-aged people in the UK have arthritis or other MSK conditions.
The ARISE study will provide guidance to employers and policymakers about how they can support improved wellbeing among working-age people who are diagnosed with arthritis. We will do this in three stages
- Quantitative analysis of publicly available data on people with arthritis from the UK Household longitudinal survey.
- A series of qualitative semi-structured interviews with UK based people who have arthritis and recent experience of paid work.
- Co-production of policy recommendations.
Our mixed-methods study will combine quantitative and qualitative findings to address the lack of guidance for employers and policymakers on which groups of people living with arthritis should be the target of policy interventions, and the types of interventions that are likely to be the most beneficial in terms of enabling the people to participate more fully in the labour market if they wish to.
Publications and outputs
This study builds upon our prior work for the Nuffield foundation:
Martin A. How does arthritis affect employment in the UK? 2022 19/03/2024. Available from: https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Executive-summary-How-does-arthritis-affect-employment-in-the-UK.pdf
Rajah N, Webb EJD, Hulme C, Kingsbury SR, West R, Martin A. How does arthritis affect employment? Longitudinal evidence on 18,000 British adults with arthritis compared to matched controls. Soc Sci Med. 2023;321:115606. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115606.