MUM
TIME
Time is not
equally lived.
The project addresses a major gap in research on time use in Cyprus. While time-use data are widely used internationally to understand gender inequality, work, care and wellbeing, Cyprus has not previously had nationally representative time diary data of this kind.
MUMTIME will use an adapted open-source digital time diary tool developed by the Centre for Time Use Research to collect detailed information about how mothers spend a 24-hour day, including paid work, childcare, domestic work, leisure and other activities.
How do mothers spend their time?
How do mothers in Cyprus allocate their time across paid work, unpaid work, personal care, and leisure activities, and what does this reveal about their experience of time poverty in daily life?
What does time reveal about the motherhood penalty?
To what extent do patterns of time-use among working mothers reflect and reinforce the motherhood penalty beyond its economic dimensions?
What can time-use tell us about gender equality?
How do these time-use patterns inform gender equality policies?
with Prof Pablo Gracia
with Dr Lea Pessin
CYSTAT
Following
the day.
Digital time diaries
MUMTIME will collect detailed 24-hour time diaries using an adapted version of the Extended Light Digital Diary Instrument (o-ELiDDI). Participants record their activities across the day, allowing researchers to capture both primary and secondary activities, location, co-presence, ICT use and enjoyment.
Beyond the clock
Time-use research is not only about measuring minutes. MUMTIME also considers how activities are experienced and how mothers negotiate competing demands in everyday life.
Quantitative & qualitative perspectives
The project combines time-use data with qualitative interviews to connect patterns in everyday activity with mothers' own accounts of their experiences.
What's
happening.
Updates from the MUMTIME project, including research, events, publications and project milestones.
MUMTIME begins
The MUMTIME Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship project begins at the University of Cyprus.
Research updates
Updates on data collection, events, publications and other project activities will appear here.
About
the researcher.
Elena completed an ESRC 1+3 fully funded doctoral studentship at the University of Warwick, including an integrated Master's in Social Science Research Methods and a PhD in Sociology.
Following her doctorate, she was awarded a one-year, part-time postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. Alongside this, she continued working as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Time Use Research at UCL until the start of her MSCA award, total of four years.
Her research combines methodological development with substantive questions in sociology and public health, with a particular focus on time-use research and diary data.
Let's
connect.
I welcome conversations about MUMTIME, research collaboration, methodology, time-use research, teaching and interdisciplinary projects.
mylona.elena@ucy.ac.cy