Contact details

Email: Lauren dot Bird at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel.: +44 (0) 24765 75979

Room: R3.29 (Ramphal Building)

Office hours: Tuesdays 11-12 (in person), Fridays 10-11 (online). Book time with Bird, Lauren

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Assistant Professor

Director of Undergraduate Admissions

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

• IP110: Quantitative methods for undergraduate research
• IP903: The Good Life: Flourishing and Belonging Within Communities
• IP906: Health and well-being across the lifecourse
• IP309: Quantitative Methods: Understanding relationships in data
• IP904/IP905 Dissertations

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