The role

We are seeking to appoint a quantitative researcher to work on a study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, on family change, well-being and social policy. You will join a small team of researchers, led by Professor Susan Harkness alongside Dr Samuel Mohun Himmelweit (University of Bristol), Dr Silvia Avram (University of Essex) and a postdoctoral research fellow (to be appointed). The work is being conducted alongside Gingerbread, the UK’s largest single parent charity.

The project aims to understand the complexity of children’s family lives. You will be responsible for analysing a large number of UK secondary data sources, which you will use to build a robust evidence base to show how family structure has changed over recent decades. A major focus of the study will be to understand the growth of step-families, and of families where parents share care, and to examine how these changes interact with the social welfare and child maintenance systems.

We are also advertising a 'Senior Research Associate' position on the same project under vacancy reference ACAD107695. You can access this Job by searching on our