
Ludovica Gambaro
CASE Visiting Senior Fellow and Senior Researcher (PhD)
Expertise: family policy, early education and care services and policies, migration and residential mobility, child development
Biography
I completed my PhD in Social Policy at the LSE in 2012, on the subject of pay and working conditions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the UK. Since then, I have held research positions at the LSE, University College London, German Institute for Economic Research, the University of Tübingen and I am currently senior researcher at the German Federal Institute for Population Research. My work has broadly focused on understanding inequalities in childhood, and the way diverging developmental trajectories may relate to social policies affecting family and education services, housing and neighbourhoods. In Germany my work has concentrated on refugee and migrant families. My research has been funded, among others, though the Horizon 2020 programme with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship and by the Nuffield Foundation.
Ludovica Gambaro's current research interests are:
- Family and education policies
- Residential mobility
- Refugees in Europe
Ludovica's latest projects include:
- Refugees from Ukraine in Germany
- Forced Migration and Transnational Family Arrangements – Eritrean and Syrian Refugees in Germany (TransFAR)
- Peers in ECEC centres: who are they and do they matter? An empirical analysis on ECEC group composition, its drivers and its effects