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Virginia Gunn
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Latest papers
Precarious employment and mental health: the moderating role of household income and family type in Sweden.
BMC public health · 2026
A Systematic Review of Evaluated Labor Market Initiatives Addressing Precarious Employment: Findings and Public Health Implications
International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services · 2025 · first author
Labour and social protection gaps impacting the health and well-being of workers in non-standard employment: An international comparative study.
PLoS ONE · 2025
Latest funding
- $302,175
COVID-19 and Precarious Employment (COPE)
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
13 publications.
Precarious employment and mental health: the moderating role of household income and family type in Sweden.
Kvart S, Mangot-Sala L, Aronsson A, Badarin K, Bosmans K, Gunn V, Johansson G, Julià M, Kreshpaj B, Matilla-Santander N, Mendez-Rivero F, Thern E, Östergren PO, Bodin T
A Systematic Review of Evaluated Labor Market Initiatives Addressing Precarious Employment: Findings and Public Health Implications
Gunn V, Matilla-Santander N, Kreshpaj B, Vignola EF, Wegman DH, Hogstedt C, Bodin T, Ahonen EQ, Baron S, Muntaner C
Labour and social protection gaps impacting the health and well-being of workers in non-standard employment: An international comparative study.
Kvart S, Cuervo I, Gunn V, Lewchuk W, Bosmans K, Davis L, Escrig-Piñol A, Östergren P-O, Padrosa E, Vives A
Identifying barriers and facilitators to reporting and disclosing sexual violence (SV) for undergraduate students in Canadian and American universities: a scoping review protocol.
Kennedy K, MacLeod E, Lee J, Treige C, Jones R, Narang R, Gunn V
Exploring Indigenous Health and Employment: Methods to Capture Diversity and Intersecting Factors.
Gunn V, O'Campo P, Muntaner C
Could Better-Quality Employment Improve Population Health? Findings From a Scoping Review of Multi-Dimensional Employment Quality Research and a Proposed Research Direction.
Ahonen EQ, Winkler MR, Bosmans K, Gunn V, Julià M
Alienation: another contested Marxian construct in epidemiology and public health.
Muntaner C, Gunn V, Prins SJ
Precarious employment, strenuous working conditions and the long-term risk of diagnosed chronic musculoskeletal disorders.
Badarin K, Mangot-Sala L, Matilla Santander N, Kreshpaj B, Hernando Rodríguez JC, Aronsson AE, Kvart S, Thern E, Gunn V, Ostergren PO, Julia M, Baron S, Muntaner C, Wegman DH, Bodin T
Precarious work on the rise
Perri M, O’Campo P, Gill P, Gunn V, Ma RW, Buhariwala P, Rasoulian E, Lewchuk W, Baron S, Bodin T
Working Conditions, Worker Rights, and Managerial Domination During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessing Their Toll on Precariously Employed Workers and Family Well-Being.
O'Campo P, Gunn V, Perri M, Buhariwala P, Rasoulain E, Daneshvardfard M, Ma RW, Lewchuck W, Baron S, Bodin T, Muntaner C
COVID-19 and Precarious Employment (COPE)
Principal investigators: O'Campo, Patricia J
Keywords: Economic Downturn; Employment; Gender; Government Responses; Longitudinal Research; Mixed-Methods Research; Precarious Employment; Public Health Emergency; Racialized Populations; Workplace Support
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Carles Muntaner and Patricia O’Campo: 50 shared papers
- Wayne Lewchuk and Patricia O’Campo: 9 shared papers
- Carles Muntaner and Virginia Gunn: 8 shared papers
- Patricia O’Campo and Virginia Gunn: 6 shared papers
- Wayne Lewchuk and Carles Muntaner: 4 shared papers
- Wayne Lewchuk and Virginia Gunn: 4 shared papers
- Jason Lee and Virginia Gunn: 1 shared paper
- Jason Lee and Emily MacLeod: 1 shared paper
- Jason Lee and Crystal Treige: 1 shared paper
- Virginia Gunn and Emily MacLeod: 1 shared paper
- Virginia Gunn and Crystal Treige: 1 shared paper
- Emily MacLeod and Crystal Treige: 1 shared paper
- School of Nursing
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Epidemiology Division
- Labour Studies
- McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health
Co-authors at Cape Breton University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Carles Muntaner
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
8 shared papers, latest 2025
Patricia O’Campo
Epidemiology Division
6 shared papers, latest 2025
Wayne Lewchuk
Labour Studies
4 shared papers, latest 2025
Emily MacLeod
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Crystal Treige
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Jason Lee
McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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Profile data last refreshed on September 29, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and public research funding records.