Welcome to CTUR
The ESRC Centre for Time Use Research is a world-leading, multidisciplinary research group based at the UCL Institute of Education in University College London (UCL). Our team of researchers – which includes sociologists, economists, and demographers – work with Time Use Data to investigate issues in areas including social life, work-life balance, family, gender, and economics.
The centre is also home to the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) which brings together more than a million diary days from over 70 randomly sampled national-scale surveys, into a single standardised format. MTUS allows researchers to analyse time spent by different sorts of people in various sorts of work and leisure activities, over the last 55 years and across 30 countries. CTUR is also funded by the US National Institutes of Health, and by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.
Announcements
'What We Really Do All Day' book by CTUR team and colleagues to be launched on Thursday 27th June 2019
Read the review on The Guardian
Access the article on The Times
The Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) team has relocated to University College London (UCL)
CTUR articles published on BMC Public Health
Four CTUR articles are published on BMC Public Health 2019, 19 (Suppl 2)
A short history of time use research; implications for public health
Updated Privacy Policy
CTUR has updated its privacy policy. For more information and to view the policy click here.
Announcing the Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
The Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, Edited by: Barbara J. Risman, Carissa M. Froyum, and William J. Scarborough will be available in June 2018, featuring CTUR Co-Director Professor Oriel Sullivan on the Division of Household Labor. More information.
Call for Managing Editors for Journal of Time Use Research
The International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) is calling for submissions to edit the new Journal of Time Use Research beginning July 2018, for a term of three years.
Read the full call here.
News: Guilt over household chores is 'harming working women's health'
CTUR working paper cited in The Guardian article on housework and women's health, with comment from Professor Jonathan Gershuny. Read the full article here.