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Susan Harkness

Susan Harkness

CASE Visiting Professor

Expertise: labour markets, gender equality, family policy, single parent families, stepfamilies, welfare policy, inequality, poverty


Biography

Susan is a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bristol and has been a Visiting Professor at CASE since 2019. Current research focuses on family change and its implications for poverty and inequality, and on gender inequalities. Susan's research, while focussed on the UK, frequently takes a comparative perspective to understand how cross-national institutional differences affect socio-economic outcomes.

Susan Harkness's current research interests are:

  • Labour markets
  • Gender equality
  • Single parent families
  • Family policy
  • Welfare policy
  • Inequality and poverty

Susan's latest projects include:

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