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:
- The implications of family change for the welfare and child maintenance system, (Principal investigator, with Silvia Avram, Samuel Mohun Himmelweit and Gingerbread), Nuffield Foundation (2024-2027)
- ESRC Research Centre on Micro Social Change (2019-2024)
- “The gender gap in pay progression: job mobility and job ladders” (co-investigator with S. Avram, Principal Investigator, and D. Popova), ESRC (2020-2023)
- NORFACE Dynamics of Inequality Across the Lifecycle (DIAL), EQUALIVES, Susan Harkness (lead international Principal Investigator), with co-investigators Anette Fasang (Humboldt), Jani Erola (Turku), Mads Meier Jaeger (Copenhagen) and Thomas Leopold (Amsterdam), (2018-2022)