Professor Kathryn Backett-Milburn
Associated Director
K.Milburn@ed.ac.uk

Kathryn Backett-Milburn is Professor of the Sociology of Families and Health and an Associated Director
of CRFR.

Kathryn's role at the University of Edinburgh spans both the College of Humanities and Social Science and the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Half of her responsibilities lie in Public Health Sciences. The other half lie in the School of Health in Social Science where she is Head of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Health.

Kathryn previously worked at Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change from 1985 onwards,
then as a Specialist Development and Evaluation Officer at the Health Education Board for
Scotland from 1993-6, before returning again to work in research at the University of Edinburgh.

For further information, see http://www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/cphs/people/staffProfile.php?profile=kmilburn

Timescapes: Changing Lives and Times: Relationships and Identities through the Lifecourse
CRFR is a partner in this Qualitative Longitudinal Research Consortium. Along with Sarah Morton
and Nick Emmel (University of Leeds) I have responsibility for the User Engagement strand of the Consortium.

As one part of our involvement with the Timescapes project, we have the ESRC research project:
Work and Family Lives: The changing experiences of 'young' families
Timescapes aims to explore the ways in which personal relationships and identities unfold over the lifecourse by focusing on the ways that people's relationships with significant others - parents, siblings, wider family, children, partners, friends and lovers - develop and change over time.

Travel choices, life events and the life course: a literature scoping review
with Ruth Lewis and Dr Heather Wilkinson
Reseach being undertaken for The Scottish Government.

ChildLine Scotland
Writing up and developing further research with ChildLine Scotland, (now part of Children 1st)
including paper on emotional aspects of working with sensitive databases given at Sheffield
Childhood Studies conference (July 2008), being worked on for publication.

With Sharon Ogilvie-Whyte (University of Dundee) - working on a small scoping piece of work
for ChildLine on children and issues of confidentiality.

Children, families and the environment (Briefing forthcoming 2009)
Research undertaken for The Scottish Government

ESRC/Scottish Executive Scottish Demography project on Fertility variations in Scotland:
socio-cultural attitudes and interactions
Report Fertility variations in Scotland: socio-cultural attitudes and interactions
Presentation to BSPS September 2007 on young men's attitudes to fertility.
Paper on men and fertility in final stage with Lynn Jamieson, Fran Wasoff and Roona Simpson.

ChildLine Scotland
Project 1: Children's concerns
Project about parents and significant others and its impact on their lives.
Paper given to BSA med soc, September 2006.
Project 2 : Children's concerns about sexual health issues.
Report published end Feb 2007
press coverage

Researching with ChildLine Scotland about children and young people’s health concerns

Women and work life balance in Scottish SMEs
Final report ( 2007)
First authored publication, August 2008: 'Family comes first or open all hours' in the Sociological Review, ongoing contributions to other papers

Young people leaving Care (2007)
A research review focusing on young people who have been looked after at home and those who have been looked after and accommodated by Local Authorities.