Academic Profile

Jacqueline Scott

Summary

Jacqueline Scott is Professor of Empirical Sociology, in the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science and a Fellow of Queens’ College Cambridge.

From 2004-2010 she was the Director of the ESRC Research Priority Network on Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction. This is the largest research multi-disciplinary network of its kind in the UK. She co-ordinates projects across eight institutions that are investigating different aspects of the way women and men’s roles and lifestyles have changed. The common goal of the Network is to understand why gender inequalities remains one of the most pressing social issues of our time and to identify ways that greater equality may be achieved. For further details see www.genet.ac.uk.

Brief CV

Trained at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she received her PhD in 1987, Jacqueline has held a variety of survey related positions before joining the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (now HSPS) in 1994. She was the Director of the Detroit Area Study, from 1989-1990; and Director of the ESRC Centre on Micro-Social Change, at the University of Essex from 1990-1994, where she was responsible for the initial design and implementation of the British Household Panel Study. She was Guest Professor, Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA). Mannheim, Germany (1993, 2005) .

From 2004-2010 she was the Director of the ESRC Research Priority Network on Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction. This was the largest research multi-disciplinary network of its kind in the UK. She co-ordinated projects across eight institutions that investigated different aspects of the way women and men’s roles and lifestyles have changed. The common goal of the Network was to understand why gender inequalities remains one of the most pressing social issues of our time and to identify ways that greater equality may be achieved. For further details see www.genet.ac.uk.

Research Interests

Her research interests focus particularly on gender inequalities and changing gender roles; changing family and household structures; inter-generational relations; generational shifts in attitudes and behaviours and life course processes.

Publications

Selected publications can be downloaded at http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/contacts/staff/profiles/jscott/

Education

1972: University of Sussex, BA Hons. Comparative Religion

1973:University of London, Institute of Education Graduate Teaching Certificate in Education (Distinction)

1983: M.A in Sociology, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

1987: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

Graduate Supervision

I supervise a range of M Phil and PhD Students and welcome inquiries from graduate students and post docs interested in working in my areas of expertise. Recent PhD students have undertaken research on a wide range of topics including: Changing attitudes towards marriage in Taiwan; Ethnic intermarriage and family orientation; Changing fertility patterns in the UK and Belgium; Family change in Chile; Wellbeing for women in mid-life; Children’s experiences of bullying. Students have received funding from sources such as the ESRC and the Gates Foundation. I have also mentored several post docs who have received funding from sources including the ESRC; Leverhulme; Newton Trust; British Academy and EU Marie Curie.

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