Section: Research Student Profiles

Tania Wood

Name
Tania Wood
Organisation
Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 131 651 1726
E-Mail
URL
http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/wood_tania
Tania Wood

PhD Working Title

Exploring social and neighbourhood differences in parents' personal networks and use of statutory services.

Research interests

My project uses the first four sweeps of birth cohort data from Growing up in Scotland (GUS) to look at questions of whether ‘parenting is a class issue’. Although factors at the child, family and neighbourhood levels influence children’s outcomes, I focus on the family and neighbourhood levels, and in particular on the ways in which parents with different levels of status and power differ in their use of networks of personal contacts and statutory and non-statutory services. I am also looking at what effect, if any, neighbourhood context has on these aspects of parents’ behaviour. Finally, I will examine whether there is any meaningful association between parents’ use of networks and services and their children’s behavioural development by age 4. This study sits within policy debates around, on the one hand, social reproduction and the intergenerational transmission of inequality, and on the other, the professionalisation of parenting.

I am interested in social reproduction and social change, parenting, child development, resilience and quantitative methods.

I have an ESRC quota studentship.

Supervisors

Alison Koslowski and Ross Bond 

Qualifications

  • MSc in Social Research (with distinction), University of Edinburgh
  • P.G.C.E Secondary Education, Cheltenham and Gloucester College
  • M.A. (Cantab.) Modern and Medieval Languages (1st class)

Memberships

  • Royal Statistical Society
  • Society of Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies
  • Social Policy Association
  • Applied Quantitative Methods Network
 

This page was published on 23 April 2012


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