Faculty profile
Peggy McDonough
Back to facultyLatest papers
Work-family life courses and psychological distress: Evidence from three British birth cohort studies.
Advances in life course research · 2021
Interrogating inclusion with youths who use augmentative and alternative communication.
Sociology of health & illness · 2020
Do work and family care histories predict health in older women?
European journal of public health · 2017
Latest funding
- $253,819
Economic inequalities among women in later life: the role of structured life course processes in comparative context
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
- $259,018
Work and Health in Later Life: Pathways and Social Patterning in Comparative Context
CIHR · 2011 · Nominated PI
- $85,541
Social Change, Work-Family Life Courses and Women's Mid-Life Health in Britain and the US
CIHR · 2009 · Nominated PI
16 publications.
Work-family life courses and psychological distress: Evidence from three British birth cohort studies.
McMunn A, Lacey R, Worts D, Kuh D, McDonough P, Sacker A
Interrogating inclusion with youths who use augmentative and alternative communication.
Teachman G, McDonough P, Macarthur C, Gibson BE
Do work and family care histories predict health in older women?
Benson R, Glaser K, Corna LM, Platts LG, Di Gessa G, Worts D, Price D, McDonough P, Sacker A
Is there room for resilience? A scoping review and critique of substance use literature and its utilization of the concept of resilience.
Rudzinski K, McDonough P, Gartner R, Strike C
Is being in paid work beyond state pension age beneficial for health? Evidence from England using a life-course approach.
Di Gessa G, Corna LM, Platts LG, Worts D, McDonough P, Sacker A, Price D, Glaser K
Relationship between employment histories and frailty trajectories in later life: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
Lu W, Benson R, Glaser K, Platts LG, Corna LM, Worts D, McDonough P, Di Gessa G, Price D, Sacker A
Work-family life courses and markers of stress and inflammation in mid-life: evidence from the National Child Development Study.
Lacey RE, Sacker A, Kumari M, Worts D, McDonough P, Booker C, McMunn A
Work-family life courses and metabolic markers in mid-life: evidence from the British National Child Development Study.
McMunn A, Lacey RE, Kumari M, Worts D, McDonough P, Sacker A
Preparedness as a technology of (in)security: Pandemic influenza planning and the global biopolitics of emerging infectious disease.
Sanford S, Polzer J, McDonough P
Individualization, opportunity and jeopardy in American women's work and family lives: a multi-state sequence analysis.
Worts D, Sacker A, McMunn A, McDonough P
Economic inequalities among women in later life: the role of structured life course processes in comparative context
Principal investigators: McDonough, Peggy A.
Keywords: ageing; women; social inequalities; economic well-being; life course; work histories; marital histories; longitudinal analysis; welfare state
Work and Health in Later Life: Pathways and Social Patterning in Comparative Context
Principal investigators: McDonough, Peggy; Sacker, Amanda
Keywords: Aging; Comparative; Employment; Health; Latent Growth Curves; Life Course; Longitudinal Data; Optimal Matching Analysis; Retirement; Welfare State
Social Change, Work-Family Life Courses and Women's Mid-Life Health in Britain and the US
Principal investigators: McDonough, Peggy
Keywords: Comparative; Family; International; Longitudinal; Women; Work
Health and poverty dynamics: a comparative study of welfare states
Principal investigators: McDonough, Peggy A.
Keywords: health and poverty; social inequalities in health; gender and health; comparative welfare regimes; longitudinal analysis; latent variable modeling
Restructuring, work, health and well-being of municipal employees
Principal investigators: McDonough, Peggy A.
Keywords: restructuring; new models of work; health; gender; family; quality of life; municipal sector
Restructuring work and labour in the new economy
Principal investigators: Pupo, Norene J.
Keywords: economic restructuring; workplace organization; social policy; unions and politics; labour market structure; vocational education and training
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Harry Samuel Shannon and Peggy McDonough: 1 shared paper
- Carol Strike and Peggy McDonough: 1 shared paper
- Gail Teachman and Peggy McDonough: 1 shared paper
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences
- Occupational Therapy
- Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
A short, specific email works best. This draft uses one of their recent papers; replace the parts in brackets with your own details before sending.
Profile data last refreshed on July 30, 2025 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.