Reproductive decision-making
Why people in low-fertility countries start families later than they would like, studied in the UK and now in Finland.
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I use evolutionary theory and quantitative and qualitative methods to understand variation in families, reproduction and health.
Current projects
Lockdown study
How parents of toddlers experienced the UK lockdowns, from fathers at home to grandparents kept away.
Read about the projectEarlier work
- Grandparents and family size. How grandparents affect children's education and how becoming a grandparent affects well-being, and when family size matters for children's outcomes. This work grew out of the ERC-funded Family Size Matters project at Oxford.
- Childhood environments and life history. Father absence, family disruption, puberty and reproductive timing, from my PhD and the work that followed it.
- Child growth across cultures. A five-country comparison of how family size, household size and birth order relate to child growth, in preparation.
- Evolutionary medicine and public health. Teaching, a seminar series and a review of evolution in public health.