Kathryn Badarin

I am an affiliated researcher at the Unit of Occupational Medicine, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. I hold a PhD in Medical Science from Karolinska Institutet, an MSc in Global Public Health and a BSc in Occupational Therapy. I have a clinical background as an occupational therapist and teach evidence-based practice and research methods as a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. My main research interests are in social inequalities in health, with a particular focus on how employment conditions and in-work poverty shape the health and wellbeing of working-age populations. My current research focuses on in-work poverty and how this shapes health and labour market attachment

I am the PI for a FORTE funded project investigating the health effects of in-work poverty in Sweden. My previous roles include working on the Precarious Work Research [1] project. The project aimed to deepen the understanding of how non-standard work 
arrangements and various psychosocial stressors in the workplace affect
individuals, families and communities and how these contribute to
inequalities in work environment, health and well-being.
I worked in an EU-funded project that uses an exposome approach to 
study the impact of integrated exposures on the mental health of children
using a range of cohort data (Studying the exposome for a healthier future
for all children | Equal Life (equal-life.eu) [2]). My PhD research focused
on the impact of physical and psychosocial workplace exposures on
musculoskeletal health and labour market marginalisation.
[1] https://precariousworkresearch.org/
[2] https://www.equal-life.eu/en