Dr Lauren Bird

Contact details

Email: Lauren.Bird@warwick.ac.uk

Tel.: +44 (0) 24765 75979

Room: R3.29 (Ramphal Building)

Office hours:

Tuesdays 11-12 (in person), Fridays 10-11 (online).

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Assistant Professor

Director of Undergraduate Admissions

Exam Secretary, School of Cross-Faculty Studies

Biography

I came to Warwick Liberal Arts in 2020, after working and teaching in both Arts and Sciences and Epidemiology and Public Health. I am a product of interdisciplinarity, having returned to education to study demography, epidemiology and public health (MSc and PhD) after previously studying history, English and postcolonial studies in my BA and MA. I previously spent a decade working in museums, material culture, and media archives and management. This considerable time spent outside of the bubble of academia is very important to me as an educator, driving my interest in helping students develop practical skills for their future success outside of a classroom.

Qualifications

Hons. BA History, Celtic Studies and English (University of Toronto); MA Postcolonial Studies (Goldsmiths College, University of London); MSc Demography and Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine); PhD Epidemiology and Public Health (UCL).

Teaching

Research

My research interests combine approaches from social epidemiology, demography and sociology to investigate health and child development. I am particularly interested in family relationships, social inequalities in health, family structures and implications for family well-being and child development. My work combines sociological theories with quantitative techniques to analyse birth cohort and panel studies in the UK.

Publications

Dawson, A., Pike, A., & Bird, L. (2015). Associations Between Parental Gendered Attitudes and Behaviours and Children’s Gender Development Across Middle Childhood. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2015.1109507
Dawson, A., Pike, A., & Bird, L. (2015). Parental Division of Household Labour and Sibling Relationship Quality: Family Relationship Mediators. Infant and Child Development, 24(4), 379–393. http://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1890
McMunn, A, Bird, L., Webb, E., Sacker, A. (2020) Gender divisions of paid and unpaid work in contemporary UK couples. Work, Employment and Society, 34(2), 155–173. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019862153
Bird, L., Sacker, A., & McMunn, A. (2020). Relationship satisfaction and concordance in attitudes to maternal employment in British couples with young children. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520919987