Lynda Clarke BSc MSc
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Lynda Clarke has a BSc in Social Anthropology and MSc in Medical Demography. She has been at LSHTM since 1987 and Head of the Population Studies Department since 2007. She previously worked at OPCS (now ONS) on national social surveys; at City University on the ONS Longitudinal Survey; at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education undertaking research on physically disabled teenagers; and was responsible for research at a national pregnancy advisory charity. She was Director of Research at the Family Policy Studies Centre from 1995 until it closed in 2000.
Affiliation
Teaching
Lynda was Taught Course Director for Epidemiology and Population Health from 2000 until 2006, responsible for managing the MSc teaching programmes. She teaches on a number of modules on the MSC Demography and Health and MSc Reproductive and Sexual Health Research including Population Studies, Gender and Health, Principles of Social Research, Research Design and Analysis. She has also taught on the distance learning MSc in Epidemiology: Principles and Practice on Research Planning, Scientific Reporting and Refereeing amd also ran a course on Family Studies for the MSc in Social Research Methods at City University.
Research
Lynda specialises in family demography, mainly in developed countries but also has ongoing work in South Africa. She is particularly interested in the changing family circumstances of children and the policy implications of family change. She is the country expert for the EU Monitor on the social situation of the EU.
Her research combines quantitative and qualitative methods and currently she is working on men's health and fatherhood in a high HIV area of South Africa. She has just completed a study of fatherhood in South Asian families in London and Sheffield and a study of young offenders in Britain and a comparative study of fathers in prison in the USA and Britain. Previous recent work includes studies of grandparenthood, fatherhood, childlessness, teenage pregnancy, fertility patterns, childbearing intentions, child health, women's health, men's health and mothers' work and childcare.
Research areas
- Child health
Disciplines
- Anthropology
- Demography
Other interests
- Family Relationships And Health
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Selected publications
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Risk factors for low birthweight based on birth registration and census information, England and Wales, 1981-2000.
Collingwood Bakeo, A.; Clarke, L.;
Health Stat Q, 2006; (30):15-21
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Family and Economic roles
Clarke, L; Evandrou, M
in 'Growing Older: Approahes to Quality of Life in Context' Alan Walker and Catherine Henessey(2005) Open University Press
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The long shadow of childhood: associations between parental social class and own social class, educational attainment and timing of first birth; results from the ONS Longitudinal Study.
Buxton, J.; Clarke, L.; Grundy, E.; Marshall, C.E.;
Popul Trends, 2005; (121):17-26
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Fathering behind Bars in English Prisons: Imprisoned Fathers' Identity and Contact with their Children
Clarke, L.; O'Brien, M.; Day, R.; Godwin, H.; Connolly, J.; Hemmings, J.; van Leeson, T.
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers, 2005; 3(3):221-241
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The meaning of grandparenthood, and its contribution to the quality of life of older people.
Clarke, L; Roberts, C
in 'Growing Older: Quality of Life' Alan Walker and Catherine Henessey(2004) Open University Press :188-208
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Children's risk of parental break-up - Norway and England/Wales compared
Clarke, L.; Jensen, A. M.
Acta Sociologica, 2004; 47(1):51
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Father Involvement in Britain: the research and policy evidence
Clarke, L.; O'Brien, M.
in 'Measuring Father Involvement' Day, R.; Lamb, M.(2003) Sage (New York)
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Policy and rhetoric: the growing interest in fathers and grandparents in Britain
Clarke, L.; Roberts, C.
in 'Analysing Families: morality and rationality in policy and practice' Carling, A.; Duncan, S. ; Edwards, R.(2002) Routledge (London and New York) :165-182
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