Promotions success for Brienna Perelli-Harris

CPC member, Brienna Perelli-Harris, has been promoted to the role of Professor of Demography at the University of Southampton.

Her research investigates changes in the family in comparative perspective. Working with researchers across Europe, the USA and Australia, she uses demographic techniques, advanced quantitative methods, in-depth qualitative approaches, and policy analysis to explore the underlying reasons for the development of new family formation behaviours. She works within the fertility and family strand of CPC.

Brienna joined the University of Southampton in 2011. Previously she was a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and a post-doc at the University of Wisconsin, USA. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Michigan in 2006.

She is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Population, a member of the scientific board of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey, a member of the Generations and Gender Programme Council of Partners, and Chair of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on New and Emerging Family Forms around the Globe. In 2016, the European Association for Population Studies awarded her the Dirk van de Kaa Award for Social Demography.

Posted 25/07/2019 09:29