Dr David Wainwright

David Wainwright

Senior Lecturer

1 West 3.28
Email: d.wainwright@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 5477

Currently supervising doctoral research projects on:

Sickness certification for chronic pain
The development of a health and wellbeing strategy for Bristol Council
The UK Safer Patient Network; A Social Movement for Organisational Change?
Understanding interpretative approaches to community-based support: health and well-being outcomes for adults with intellectual disabilities in supported living environments.
The factors that affect homeless people’s health seeking behaviour.
Change and Containment’- a study to explore the emotional dynamics of leading change in Irish health service organisations
Resilience or convenience: Exploratory investigation into consultations and self-care for infections related minor ailments in primary care
Phenomenological Description of the Experiences of Physiotherapists
Patients’ and carers’ experiences in accessing district nursing services

Profile

Dr David Wainwright is a Sociologist who studies the connections between work, health and wellbeing, with particular reference to welfare and health care policy. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Health, University of Bath where he convenes the cross-faculty Work, Health and Wellbeing Research Group, and is the Director of Studies for the Professional Doctorate in Health programmes.

A key research interest lies in the extent to which problems at work have become medicalised through the discourse of work stress. Other research interests include the management of medically unexplained illnesses; extending working life and psycho-social influences on resilience and illness behaviour.

Before moving to the University of Bath, Dr Wainwright worked at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. He has also worked in the Social Medicine Department at the University of Bristol as a member of the Medical Research Council’s Health Services Research Collaboration.

Research interests

Work, health & wellbeing
Extending working life & pension reform
Health care policy
Psycho-social influences on illness behaviour

Current research projects

Exploring the use of behaviour change interventions in extending working life. Funded by Department for Work and Pensions

Teaching

Postgraduate

Publications

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Book/s

Wainwright, D., 2008. A Sociology of Health. London: Sage.

Wainwright, D. and Calnan, M., 2002. Work Stress: the making of a modern epidemic. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Book Sections

Weyman, A., Wainwright, D., O'Hara, R., Jones, P. and Buckingham, A., 2012. Improving communications about extending working life amongst individuals : learning from models of behavioural and attitudinal change. In: Weyman, A., Wainwright, D., O'Hara, R., Jones, P. and Buckingham, A., eds. Extending Working Life. Sheffield, U. K.: Department of Work and Pensions, pp. 59-165. (Department for Work and Pensions Research Reports; RR 809)

Wainwright, D., Wainwright, E., Black, R. and Kenyon, S., 2011. Reconstructing the Self and Social Identity: new interventions for returning long-term Incapacity Benefit claimants to work. In: Vickerstaff, S., Phillipson, C. and Wilkie, R., eds. Work, Health and Wellbeing: The challenges of managing health at work. Bristol: Policy Press.

Wainwright, D. and Calnan, M., 2011. The fall of work stress and the rise of wellbeing. In: Vickerstaff, S., Phillipson, C. and Wilkie, R., eds. Work, health and wellbeing: the challenges of managing health at work. Bristol, U. K.: Policy Press, pp. 161-186.

Wainwright, D. and Calnan, M., 2011. What the doctor ordered: the Audit Commission’s case study of general practice fundholders. In: Exworthy, M., Peckham, S., Powell, M. and Hann, A., eds. Shaping Health Policy: Case study methods and analysis. Bristol: Policy Press.

Wainwright, D. and Heaver, E., 2010. Can the economic and social costs of sickness absence be reduced by improving the quality of working life? In: Whitfield, K., ed. Well-Being and Working Life: Towards an Evidence-Based Policy Agenda. Swindon: ESRC/HSE.

Wainwright, D., 2008. Illness behaviour and discourse of health. In: Wainwright, D., ed. A Sociology of Health. London, U. K.: Sage, pp. 76-96.

Articles

Wainwright, D., Boichat, C. and McCracken, L. M., 2013. Forthcoming. Using the nominal group technique to engage people with chronic pain in health service development. International Journal of Health Planning and Management

Weyman, A., Wainwright, D., O'Hara, R., Jones, P. and Buckingham, A., 2013. Working overtime : the key role of choice architecture in motivating extended working life. Public Service Review: Europe, 25, pp. 110-111.

Wainwright, E., Wainwright, D., Keogh, E. and Eccleston, C., 2011. Fit for purpose? Using the fit note with patients with chronic pain: a qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice, 61 (593), e794-e800.

Heeaver, E. S. and Wainwright, D., 2009. Interpreting the rights in the NHS constitution. BMJ, 338, b633.

Pryce, H. and Wainwright, D., 2008. Help-seeking for medically unexplained hearing difficulties: a qualitative study. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 15 (8), pp. 343-349.

Calnan, M., Wainwright, D., O'Neill, C., Winterbottom, A. and Watkins, C., 2007. Illness action rediscovered: a case study of upper limb pain (Retracted article. see vol 29, pg 955, 2007). Sociology of Health & Illness, 29 (3), pp. 321-346.

Wainwright, D., Donovan, J. L., Kavadas, V., Cramer, H. and Blazeby, J. M., 2007. Remapping the body: Learning to eat again after surgery for esophageal cancer. Qualitative Health Research, 17 (6), pp. 759-771.

Calnan, M., Wainwright, D., O'Neill, C., Winterbottom, A. and Watkins, C., 2006. Making sense of aches and pains. Family Practice, 23 (1), pp. 91-105.

Calnan, M., Wainwright, D., Glasner, P., Newbury-Ecob, R. and Ferlie, E., 2006. Medicines next Goldmine: Implications of 'new' genetic health care technology for health services. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 9, pp. 33-41.

Palmer, K., Calnan, M., Wainwright, D., O’Neill, C., Winterbottom, A., Watkins, C., Poole, J. and Coggon, D., 2006. Upper limb pain in primary care: health beliefs, somatic distress, consulting and patient satisfaction. Family Practice, 23 (6), pp. 609-617.

Wainwright, D., Calnan, M., O'Neil, C., Winterbottom, A. and Watkins, C., 2006. When pain in the arm is 'all in the head': The management of medically unexplained suffering in primary care. Health Risk & Society, 8 (1), pp. 71-88.

Palmer, K., Calnan, M., Wainwright, D., Poole, J., O’Neill, C., Winterbottom, A., Watkins, C. and Coggon, D., 2005. Disabling musculoskeletal pain and its relation to somatization: A community-based postal survey. Occupational Medicine, 55 (8), pp. 612-617.

Calnan, M., Wainwright, D., O'Neill, C., Winterbottom, A. and Watkins, C., 2005. Evaluating health-care: the perspectives sufferers with upper limb pain. Health Expectations, 8 (2), pp. 149-160.

Calnan, M., Wadsworth, E., May, M., Smith, A. and Wainwright, D., 2004. Job strain, effort-reward imbalance, and stress at work: competing or complementary models? Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 32 (2), pp. 84-93.

Wainwright, D., 2003. More ‘con’ than ‘joint’: problems with the application of conjoint analysis to participatory health care decision-making. Critical Public Health, 13 (4), pp. 373-380.

Calnan, M. and Wainwright, D., 2002. Is general practice stressful? European Journal of General Practice, 8, pp. 5-17.

Wainwright, D., 2002. Policing the Heart. International Journal of Epidemiology, 31, pp. 1265-1267.

Calnan, M., Wainwright, D., Forsythe, M., Wall, B. and Almond, S., 2001. Mental health and stress in the workplace: the case of general practice in the UK. Social Science and Medicine, 52 (4), pp. 499-507.

Reports/Papers

Weyman, A., Wainwright, D., O'Hara, R., Jones, P. and Buckingham, A., 2012. Extending Working Life: Behaviour Change Interventions : Summary report. Other. Department for Work and Pensions. (Department for Work and Pensions Research Reports)

Weyman, A., Wainwright, D., O'Hara, R., Jones, P. and Buckingham, A., 2012. Extending Working Life : Behaviour Change Interventions. Other. Sheffield, U. K.: Department for Work and Pensions. (Department for Work and Pensions Research Reports; RR 809)

Brown, A., Casey, B., Green, F., Haile, G., Wainwright, D., Wainwright, E., Weyman, A. and Whitfield, K., 2009. Employee Well-Being and Working Life: Towards an Evidence-Based Policy Agenda : Report on a Public Policy Seminar held at Health and Safety Executive, Rose Court, Southwark, London, 5 February, 2009. Other. HSE.