Work and pain
A lifespan development approach
Edited by Elaine Wainwright and Christopher Eccleston
Author Information
Edited by Elaine Wainwright, Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology, Bath Spa University, and Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath, UK, and Christopher Eccleston, Professor of Medical Psychology, Centre for Pain Research, The University of Bath, UK
Elaine Wainwright is Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology at Bath Spa University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath. She is interested in intersections between pain and employment in its broadest sense across the lifespan. Her PhD examined the process of sickness certification for people living with chronic pain. Elaine has published peer reviewed journal articles from her doctorate and carried out commissioned research into whether evidence based practice can improve sickness certification rates from work. She is currently working on funded research looking at reducing work attrition for people in pain and has an overlapping research interest in improving working conditions for professionals. Elaine is also working with research teams investigating whether schoolchildren in pain have different career-related worries from those not in pain, and what we know about resilience for workers in pain. She is a chartered psychologist.
Christopher Eccleston is Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of Bath where he directs the Centre for Pain Research. He is particularly interested in evidence based medicine, innovation in treatments for chronic pain, paediatric chronic pain, and the use of communication technology in psychological medicine. In 2016 he published a psychology of physical sensation called 'embodied' which explores what we know about all proprioception and interoception with a focus on how people try to make sense of their embodied experience. He is particularly interested in the development of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams for the management of complex refractory pain, and how to re-develop ideas of the pain clinic. In 2018 he published a review of pain services across Europe and is keen to develop novel models of care and new ways to access expertise.
Contributors:
Stephen Bevan, Professor and Head of HR Research Development, Institute for Employment Studies, UK
Line Caes, Lecturer in Psychology, Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, UK
Michael Calnan, Professor of Medical Sociology, School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University of Kent, UK
Tom Douglass, ESRC Governing Scientific Accountability RA and Doctoral Researcher in Sociology, School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University of Kent, UK
Christopher Eccleston, Professor of Medical Psychology, Centre for Pain Research, The University of Bath, UK
Emma Fisher, Teaching Fellow, Psychology Department, The University of Bath, UK
Tiina Jaaniste, Head of Paediatric Pain and Palliative Care Research Team, Department of Pain and Palliative Care, Sydney Children's Hospital, and dSchool of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Australia
Abbie Jordan, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, and Centre for Pain Research, The University of Bath, UK
Deirdre Logan, Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
Christopher J Main, Professor of Clinical Psychology (Pain Management), Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, UK
Catherine Paré, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada
Stephania Donayre Pimentel, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada
William S Shaw, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Michael JL Sullivan, Professor of Psychology, Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Health, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada
Jos Verbeek, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Cochrane Work, Finland
Elaine Wainwright, Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology, Bath Spa University, and Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath, UK
