Personal profile

Research interests

Susan's current research focuses on the following areas:

  • family change and its implications for welfare policy 
  • parenthood and earnings penalties 
  • gender pay gaps 
  • mother's employment
  • income inequality and poverty 
  • single parent families and repartnering
  • intra-household inequality 
  • child outcomes 
  • minimum wages
  • Universal Credit 
  • family policy
  • childcare 

External positions

Grant Assessment Panel C member, Economic and Social Research Council

2020 → …

Visting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science

Scientific Advisory Board member and Social Policy Topic Champion, Understanding Society, University of Essex

Research Groups and Themes

  • SPS Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice

Keywords

  • Employment
  • Poverty and Inequality
  • Minimum wages
  • Welfare State
  • Universal Credit
  • gender equality
  • welfare policy
  • Family Policy
  • family change
  • mental health
  • child outcomes
  • childcare

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