Rosalind Edwards is Professor in Social Policy and Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at London South Bank University, and a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her work takes a critical sociological approach coupled with feminist relational perspectives to understand family life, address family policies, and engage with major ideas and assumptions shaping these. She is especially interested in family members’ own understandings: how these are shaped by gender, social class, race/ethnicity and generation, within geographical, political and historical contexts. Issues of social and cultural change and continuity over time have become features of her work latterly. Rosalind is currently part of the first major longitudinal qualitative research and archiving initiative funded in the UK: the ESRC Timescapes study, with responsibility for the project that documents and tracks the meanings, experiences and flows of prescribed (sibling) and chosen (friendship) relationships for children and young people, and how these relate to their sense of self as their individual and family biographies unfold (with S. Weller). She is also involved in a comparative feasibility study exploring qualitative secondary analysis of family and parenting across sources and timeframes, looking at changes and continuities in parents’ access to and use of formal and informal supports in the 1960s and more recently (with V. Gillies). Rosalind is also founding and co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (with J. Brannen). |
Teenage Parenthood: What’s the Problem? (Tufnell Press, 2010)
The Obama Drama
"I was stunned at the incisive level of debate, the packed venues, the calibre of the panellists and audience... getting out for face-to-face intelligent, gritty and gloves-off exchanges of views."
Humphrey Hawksley, BBC World Affairs Correspondent