Work, Family and Intimate Relations
About this group
Group information
The research area ‘Family and Intimate Relations’ includes issues of intimate relationships, family practices, family policy, motherhood, fatherhood, heterosexual normativity, childhood, care, violence, work, gender, class, ethnicity, etc. Examples of the areas studied by our research group are the transition to parenthood, institutionalized motherhood, the organization of family life, relations between parents and children, victim constructions and violence, the family–work balance and the interplay between social science and family policy.
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
- Between dream and reality. International and national studies of parenting and work
- Exchange of care between generations in Stepfamilies
- Lone Mothers and Long Hours. Gender and work in a new welfare regime.
- The child as a project. Parenting ideals, parenting practices, and the professionalization of parenthood.
