Staff Profiles

Modules taught

I am the Module Leader on:

SOCI4003 Researching the Social World

SOCI5006 Gender & Society

SOCI6010 The Sociology of Emotions

SOCI6008 Sociology Dissertation

I have also taught on:

SOCI4001 Social Differences and Divisions

SOCI4002 Foundations of Social Theory

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.

Research group membership

I am a member of the international Work Family Research Network and I convene the Culture, Identities and Divisions interdisciplinary research group at Oxford Brookes.

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

Membership of professional bodies

I am an active contributor to the Government Equalities Office's Workplace and Gender Equality research network, and have presented my research on parental leave decision making to key stakeholders in BEIS, DWP and the GEO.