Julia Brannen,

FRSA The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), also known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. The RSA acronym is used m ...

FAcSS The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences. Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used the ...

, is Professor of the Sociology of the Family at the

Institute of Education IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) is the education school of University College London (UCL). It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to m ...

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. She has an international reputation for her research on family life, work-life issues, and intergenerational relations. She is seen as a pioneer of mixed method research and an issue of the journal '' International Journal of Social Research Methodology'' was dedicated to a celebration of her contribution to the field. Her 2016 book was praised for the strength of the study's mixed methodology. She is a Fellow of the

Academy of Social Sciences The Academy of Social Sciences is a representative body for social sciences in the United Kingdom. The Academy promotes social science through its sponsorship of the Campaign for Social Science, its links with Government on a variety of matters, a ...

and a Visiting Professor at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

in Norway.

Selected bibliography

* * * * *

References

British sociologists Academics of the UCL Institute of Education Family sociologists Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Living people Year of birth missing (living people) British women sociologists {{UK-sociologist-stub