Section: Research Student Profiles

Helen Graham

Name
Helen Graham
Organisation
Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships 23 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh UK EH8 9LN
Telephone
+44 (0)131 651 3214
E-Mail
URL
http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/graham_helen
Helen Graham

Qualifications

MA (Hons) Economics and Politics, University of Edinburgh
MSc (with distinction) Social Policy, University of Edinburgh

Working Title

The effect of work-life balance policies on the division of paid work and care in couples with children.

Thesis Overview

The primary aim of the research is to evaluate the effect on individual households of recent policies aimed at work-life reconciliation. It seeks to understand the persistence of the motherhood penalty in employment, the gendered division of labour in the household and the way in which these phenomena are interlinked. It then considers the effect that policy has had on these outcomes, and the effect it could potentially have.

This issue will be investigated through comparative analysis of longitudinal, micro-level survey data on two cohorts of British women.

Supervisors

Fran Wasoff and Alison Smith

Funding

ESRC Quota Award, held by the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships

Research Interests

Key areas of interest: fertility; family policies; household division of labour; household economics; gender; demography; survey research; quantitative methods; longitudinal methods.

Teaching

Core Quantitative Data Analysis (MSc course, School of Social and Political Sciences)
Doing Survey Research (Honours undergraduate course, Sociology and Social Policy)
Social Inequality and the Lifecourse (Honours undergraduate course, Social Policy)


 

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