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Professor Kathleen Kiernan

BA, MSc, PhD, OBE, FBA

  • Emerita Professor

Areas of expertise

  • Families and Inequalities
  • Family Environments and Child Well-Being in the Early Years
  • Family Change in Developed Countries
  • Cohabitation and Unmarried Parenthood
  • Parental Separation and Children’s Well-Being

Current projects

  • Families and Inequalities, Institute of Fiscal Studies, Deaton Review.

Biography

Kathleen Kiernan joined the school in October 2004 she was previously Professor of Social Policy and Demography at the London School of Economics and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, at LSE. Prior to LSE she was Research Director at the Family Policy Studies Centre in London; Deputy Director of the Social Statistics Research Unit at City University; a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and she began her career with the MRC on the National Survey of Heath and Development. Much of her research uses longitudinal data from the British Birth Cohort Studies including the 1946, 1958, 1970 and the Millennium Cohort Study and more recently comparative data from a range of European countries and the USA. In 2003 she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and from 2004-2016 an annual Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Child Research and Well-Being at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA. She was member of The Good Childhood Inquiry, the Family Commission and was Vice President of The European Association of Population Studies. She is currently a member of the International Panel of the Deaton Review on Inequalities in the UK. In 2006 she was awarded an OBE for services to Social Science and in 2012 was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy.

Professor Kathleen Kiernan

Contact details

Professor Kathleen Kiernan
Emeritus Professor
School for Business and Society

Book cover: Human Development across Lives and Generations

Chase-Lansdale, P. L., Kiernan, K. and Friedman, R. (eds) (2004) Human Development Across Lives and Generations. Cambridge: CUP.

 

Book cover: Lone Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Britain

Kiernan, K., Land, H. and Lewis, J. (1998) Lone Motherhood in the Twentieth Century Britain. Oxford: OUP.