Staff Profiles

Modules taught

SOCI4001 Social Differences and Divisions

SOCI4003 Researching the Social World

SOCI5006 Gender & Society

SOCI6010 The Sociology of Emotions

SOCI6008 Sociology Dissertation

I have a first-class degree in French and Italian at University College London and an MSc in Sociology from the University of Oxford. My doctoral research at Lancaster University Management School looks at the process by which couples negotiate the division of paid work and childcare at the transition to parenthood.

I have publications in progress challenging common conceptualisations of employment status and part-time work. These are also topics I am exploring in collaborative mixed methods research with colleagues in the Netherlands and Australia. In the past I have collaborated on research looking at work-life balance in the creative industries; fathering practices in the UK; the division of domestic labour; and welfare support for older jobseekers.

Stovell, C. (2019). 'Can’t Share or Won’t Share?: examining work‐family decisions at the transition to parenthood'. Families, Relationships and Societies. 8. 512-513.

Stovell, C, Clews L. & Willis, T. (2018) 'How does Jobcentre Plus support older claimants?', Department for Work and Pensions (internal): London

Stovell, C., Collinson, D. L., Gatrell, C. & Radcliffe , L. (2017), 'Rethinking work-life balance and well-being: the perspectives of fathers’, in Cooper, C. & Leiter , M. (eds.). Routledge Companion To Wellbeing At Work.  Abingdon: Routledge

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