CONTRIBUTOR:

Julia Brannen

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Emeritus Professor

DEPARTMENT:

UCL Institute of Education

INSTITUTION:

University College London

BIOGRAPHY:

Julia Brannen is Emerita Professor of the sociology of the family, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, London, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science. She has an international reputation for research on parents, children and young people in families; intergenerational relationships; and food in families. She has particular expertise in methodology including mixed methods, biographical approaches and comparative research. Recent single and co-authored books include: Families and Food in Hard Times: European research (UCL Press 2021); Social Research Matters: A life in family sociology (Policy Press 2019); Living Hand to Mouth: Children and food in low-income families London: CPAG; Fathers and Sons: Generations, Families and Migration (Palgrave 2015). Food, Families and Work (Bloomsbury 2016).