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Professor Lynn Jamieson
CRFR Co-Director
l.jamieson@ed.ac.uk

Biography
Lynn is currently Professor of Sociology, Families and Relationships and Head of Sociology
at The University of Edinburgh. Lynn is also Co-Director of CRFR.

For further information, please see http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/jamieson_lynn


Research interests

Families, households and all personal relationships; intimacy; identity; all stages of the lifecourse;
social change; methods of social research; Scottish oral history; sexual offences.


Current CRFR projects

Rural and Urban Solo Living: Social integration, Quality of Life and Future Orientations
ESRC

Changing Lives and Times
ESRC


Past CRFR projects
Fertility variations in Scotland
ESRC/Scottish Executive

Solo Living Across the Adult Life Course
ESRC

Understanding and supporting young people through family change
Community Fund Research Grant scheme.

'Non-Familial Intimate Relationships Across the Life Course'
ESRC seminar series

Law of Evidence in Sexual Offence Trials
Scottish Executive.
Books published
1998 Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies (Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity Press)
209 pages. (second edition due 2013) translated into Complex Chinese 2002 Socio Publishing Co. Ltd, ISBN 957-30710-5-3. Chapter 6 ‘the Couple: Intimate and Equal?’ reprinted in J. Weeks, J. Holland and
M. Waites (eds.) Sexualities and Society Polity Press, 2002,pp 265-276.

1993 Sex Crimes on Trial: The Uses of Sexual Evidence in Scottish Courts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press), (with Beverley Brown & Michele Burman) 235 pages.

1992 Country Bairns: Scottish Rural Childhood 1900-1930 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press),
(in equal partnership with Claire Toynbee) reprinted by Birlinn Press, 2000 245 pages.

1992 Careers and Identities Open University Press, (with Michael Banks, Inge Bates, Glynis Breakwell,
John Bynner, Nicholas Emler, Kenneth Roberts) 219 pages
Edited Books
2011 (September) Jamieson, Lewis, Simpson (eds) Researching Families and Relationships:
Reflections on Process
London, Palgrave

2003 Families and the State: Changing Relationships (with Sarah Cunningham-Burley)
(London: Palgrave) 204 pages.

1990 The State, Private Life and Political Change (first editor with Helen Corr) (London: Macmillan)
247 pages.

1990 Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity and Change (second editor with Helen Corr)
(London: Macmillan) 259 pages.

1990 ‘Arms reduction and disarmament: Commentary’ Sociology 24, 219-228.
Sole Authored Articles
2008 ‘Obligatory friends, surrogate kin: some questions for mentoring’ Youth and Policy 99. 55-66.

2002 ‘Theorising Identity, Nationality and Citizenship: Implications for European Citizenship Identity’ Sociológia: Slovak Sociological Review, 34, 507-532.

2001 'The Treatment of Women Reporting Sexual Assault by the Scottish Criminal Justice System'
Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, July, 2001, pp. 70-88.

2000 ‘Migration, place and class: youth in a rural area’ Sociological Review 48, 203-223

1999 ‘Intimacy transformed: a critical look at the pure relationship’ Sociology, 33, 477-494.
Reprinted in S. Scott and S. Jackson (eds.) Gender: A Reader (London: Routledge)
2002 & Diduck, A. 2008. Marriage and Cohabitation: Regulating Intimacy, Affection and Care: Ashgate..
Translated as Intimat im Wande? Enei kritische Betracthtung der “reinen Beziehung”’ in Karl Lenz (ed.) Frauen und Manner: Zur Geschlectstypick personlicher Beziehungen Juventa Verlag Weinheim und Munchen, 2003, ISBN 3-7799-1371-2.

1987 ‘Theories of family development and the experience of being brought up’ Sociology 21, 591-607 reprinted in Michael Drake (ed.) Time, Family and Community: Perspectives on Family and Community History, (Milton Keynes and Oxford: The Open University Press in association with Blackwell) 1994.
Demonstrates that the shift to child-centred parenting was later than many respected accounts previously suggested and considers the theoretical consequences.
Joint Articles
2010 Jamieson L., Backett Milburn, K. Simpson, R and Wasoff F. ‘Fertility and Social Change: the
Neglected Contribution of Men’s Approaches to Becoming Partners and Parents’ Sociological
Review
58, 3, 463-485.

2009 Jamieson L., Wasoff F. and Simpson, R.‘Solo-Living, Demographic and Family Change: The Need
to Know More About Men’ Sociological Research Online Volume 14, Issue 2/3 (May)

2007 Grundy S. and Jamieson L. “European Identities: From absent-minded citizens to passionate Europeans” Sociology, Volume 41(4): 663–680.

2006 Jamieson L., Morgan D., Crow G., Allan G., ‘Friends, Neighbours and Distant Partners: Extending
or Decentring Family Relationships?’ Sociological Research Online 11 (3).

2005 ‘Are we all Europeans now? Local, national and supranational identities of young adults’
Grundy S. Jamieson L. Sociological Research Online, 10, 3.
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/3/grundy.html

2002 ‘Cohabitation and Commitment: Partnership Plans of Young Men and Women’ Lynn Jamieson,
Michael Anderson, David McCrone, Frank Bechhofer, Robert Stewart, Yaojun Li Sociological
Review
50, 354-375. reprinted in Diduck, A. 2008. Marriage and Cohabitation: Regulating Intimacy,
Affection and Care
: Ashgate.

2002 ‘Confidence and uncertainty: Ambitions and plans in a sample of young adults’ Michael Anderson,
Frank Bechhofer, Lynn Jamieson, David McCrone, Yaojun Li and Robert Stewart Sociological Research
Online
6, 4. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/6/4/anderson.html

2001 'Sexual Offences (Procedure and Evidence) (Scotland) Bill: Sharpening the focus on relevance?'
Lynn Jamieson and Michele Burman Scolag 153-154.

1989 ‘Some responses to economic change in Scottish farming and crofting family life’ Claire Toynbee
and Lynn Jamieson Sociological Review 37, 706-732 reprinted in Graham Crow (ed.) Sociology of Rural
Communities
E. Elgar, 1996.

1987 ‘Service to pregnant clients: the Edinburgh Brook Advisory Centre’ Lynn Jamieson, Judy Bury and
Tom McGlew Health Bulletin March, 77-83 (refereed journal).

1983 ‘Young persons’ contraceptive clinic 1975-1980: patterns of use’ Lynn Jamieson, Judy Bury and
Tom McGlew Health Bulletin March, 68-77 (refereed journal).
Sole Authored Chapters in Books

2011 forthcoming ‘Understanding different kinds of family in context’ in Hill, Malcolm et. al. (eds.)
Professionals, children and the community: Working Together Pearson Education.

2010 ‘Changing Intimacy in the Twentieth Century: Seeking and Forming Couple Relationship’ in
Abrams L. and Brown C. (eds) A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Scotland Edinburgh
University Press, 76-102.

2006 ‘Hierarchy and Authority’ in Storrier S. (ed.) Scotland's Domestic Life , Volume Six of the Scottish
Life and Society: A compendium of Scottish ethnology
, Tuckwell Press.

2006 Entry on ‘Intimacy’ in Harrington A., Marshall B. and Muller H. (eds) The Routledge Encyclopedia
of Social Theory
.

2006 Entry on ‘Intimacy’ in Ritzer, G. (ed.) the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

2005 ‘Boundaries of intimacy’ in Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Linda McKie (eds.) Families in Society:
Boundaries and relationships
(Bristol, Policy Press) 189-206. ISBN 1-86134-643-3

2004 'Intimacy, negotiated non-monogamy and the limits of the couple' in Jean Duncombe, Kaeren Harrison, Graham Allan and Dennis Marsden (eds.), The State of Affairs, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah,
New Jersey, 35-57.

2001 entries on 'Children' and 'Families' in M. Lynch (ed) The Oxford Companion to
Scottish History
76-78 and 237-239.

2000 ‘The Taught’ in Heather Holmes (ed.) Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish
Ethnology: Education
Tuckwell Press, 297-315.

1996 ‘The social construction of consent revisited’ in Lisa Adkins and Vicki Merchant (eds.) Sexualising
the Social: Power and the organisation of sexuality
, (London: Macmillan) (collection selected from
papers given at the British Sociological Conference 1994).

1990 ‘Rural and urban women in domestic service’ in E. Gordon and E. Breitenbach (eds.) The World is
Ill Divided: Women’s Work in Scotland in the 19th and early 20th century
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press) 136-157.

1990 ‘We all left at 14: boys’ and girls’ schooling circa 1900-1930’ in J. Fewell and F. Paterson (eds.)
Girls in their Prime: Scottish Education Revisited (Milton Keynes: Open University Press), 16-37.

1986 ‘Limited resources and limiting conventions: working-class mothers and daughters in urban
Scotland circa 1890-1920’ in Jane Lewis (ed.) Labour and Love (Oxford: Blackwell), 49-69.

1983 ‘Growing up in Scotland: class and gender’ in Uncharted Lives: Extracts from Scottish Women’s Experience Glasgow Women’s Studies Group (Glasgow: Pressgang) 17-34.

Joint Chapters in Books

2010 Jamieson L and Wajcman J. ‘Anthony Giddens et l’Intimé La Structuration oubliée’ in
Chabaud-Rychter D, Descoutures V., Deureux, A-M, and Varikas E. Sous les Sicences Sociales
le genre : Relectures critques de Max Weber a Bruno Latour
. (Paris: La Decouverte). (written in English
as ‘Anthony Giddens and Intimacy, Structuration Forgotten?’ then translated)

2005 ‘Solo Living, individual and family boundaries: findings from secondary analysis’ Fran Wasoff
and Lynn Jamieson in McKie, L and Cunningham-Burley, S (eds) Families and Society: Boundaries
and Relationships
. Policy Press

2005 Lynn Jamieson and John McKendrick ‘Teenagers’ Relationships with Peers and Parent’ in
Changing Scotland: Evidence from the British Household Panel Study in John F. Ermisch and
Robert E. Wright (eds.) Bristol, Policy Press 17-32.

2002 Lynn Jamieson, Robert Stewart, Yaojun Li, Michael Anderson, Frank Bechhofer and David McCrone
‘Single, 20-something and seeking?’ in Graham Allan and Gill Jones, (eds.) Social Relations and the Life Course (Basingstoke, Palgrave) 135-154. ISBN 0-333-98497-8.

2001 Kerstin Hinds and Lynn Jamieson 'Rejecting Traditional Family Building?: Attitudes to Cohabitation
and Teenage Pregnancy in Scotland' in John Curtice, David McCrone, Alison Parks and Lindsay Paterson,
(eds.) New Scotland, New Society? Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 33-64.

1990 ‘Shifting patterns of parental control 1900-1980’ Lynn Jamieson and Claire Toynbee in H. Corr and
L. Jamieson (eds.) Politics of Everyday Life (London: Macmillan) 86-113 (collection selected from papers
given at the BritishSociological Conference 1988).

Research Reports and Research Notes
Kidd, S. and Jamieson, L. Experiences of Muslims Living in Scotland Scottish Government Social
Research, 2011
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/03/08091838/14

Rural and Urban Solo Living: Social integration, Quality of Life and Future Orientations Jamieson
and Wasoff ESRC End of Award Report, RES-062-23-0172. Swindon 2010

‘Living on your own: Social integration, quality of life and aspirations for the future’ CRFR Briefing 47,
2010 Jamieson and Simpson http://www.crfr.ac.uk/reports/rb%2047.pdf

Social Change in Scottish Fishing Communities: A Brief Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography
Lynn Jamieson with Gillian Munroe and Maud Perrier http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/07/10100136/0

Growing Up in Scotland: Parenting and the Neighbourhood Context Report
Paul Bradshaw, Clare Sharp, Catriona Webster and Lynn Jamieson
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/03/13143448/0

Growing Up in Scotland Study: Growing Up in Rural Scotland March 2008
Lynn Jamieson, Paul Bradshaw and Rachel Ormston http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/03/12110107/0

‘Fertility, Policy and the Future of Scotland’s Population’ Elspeth Graham, Lynn Jamieson and John
MacInnes, an invited chapter (chapter 3) of Scotland’s Population 2007: the Registrar General’s
Annual Review of Demographic Trends
153 edition, 74-87, August 2008.

Drivers of youth out-migration from rural Scotland: Key Issues and an annotated bibliography
January, 2008 Lynn Jamieson and Lesley Groves
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/01/22131922/0

Impact of Aspects of the Law of Evidence in Sexual Offence Trials: An Evaluation Study September,
2007 Michele Burman, Lynn Jamieson, Jan Nicholson and Oona Brooks
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/09/12093427/0

Review of research on vulnerable young people and their transitions to independent living August,
2007 Susan Elsley, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Lynn Jamieson http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/08/23161736/0

Gill Highet and Lynn Jamieson Cool with Change: Young people and family change Final Report
March 2007 http://www.crfr.ac.uk/Research/coolwithchange.html

Simon Anderson, Paul Bradshaw, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Fenella Hayes, Lynn Jamieson, Andy MacGregor, Louise Marryat and Fran Wasoff Growing Up in Scotland: Sweep 1 Overview Report 2007,
Crown Copyright.

Jamieson, L. and Davidson, S. (2007) CRFR Migration Research Scoping Review – Lived Experience
of Migrants in Scotland
, Edinburgh University Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.

Research Briefing 2006 The Law of Evidence in Sexual Offence Trials: Initial Findings from Phase One
of the Research: Mapping High Court Sexual Offence Cases (June 2004 – May 2005) with Michele
Burman http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/12/SexualOffenceTrials

The Law of Evidence in Sexual Offence Trials: A Baseline Study 2004 Michele Burman, Lynn Jamieson,
Jan Nicholson, with Fred Cartmel

Final Report to the European Commission of ‘Orientations of Young Men and Women to Citizenship and
European Identity’ (Contract no: HPSE-CT-2001-00077, Project no: SERD-2000-00260) February 2005.

CRFR Briefing Prepared for the Chief Scientist’s Office of the Scottish Executive by reviewing research
evidence on the interaction between demographic trends, family change and work/life balance in order
to allow consideration from an employer’s perspective of the likely direct and indirect impact on
recruitment, retention, work satisfaction and performance, September 2004.

Jamieson L, Bianchi G., Boehnke K., Condor S., Grad H., Machacek L. Ros M. & Wallace C. “Orientations of Young Men and Women to Citizenship and European Identity” Research Briefing No 1. July 2004
Jamieson, L and Grundy, S. “Fortress, Melting Pot or Multi-Cultural Society: Attitudes to Immigration and Cultural Diversity” Research Briefing No 6. July 2004

‘Low fertility in Scotland: the research landscape’ invited briefing commissioned by the ESRC for the joint ESRC/Registrar General seminar, 17th May 2004, Edinburgh http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Research/Research/17534/LowScottishFertility.

‘Mapping Sure Start Scotland’ Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Lynn Jamieson, Sarah Morton, Rachel Adam and Vivienne McFarlane, Scottish Executive, Crown Copyright 2002

'Determinants/conditions of identities' construction'. European Commission Research Director General Dialogue Workshop, website (http://www.cordis.lu/improving/socio-economic/conf_citizen.htm)
For reports emerging from the European Commission funded project see http://www.ed.ac.uk/sociol/youth

‘The Attrition of Sexual Offences in the Criminal Justice System: a report of a pilot study monitoring cases from first report to the police to final outcome’ Lynn Jamieson, Michele Burman, Sue Grundy and Fiona Dyer, report submitted to the Scottish Office, Criminological Research Branch, 7/12/98

‘Changing patterns of relationships and the future of welfare’ in Andrew Morton (ed.) The Future of Welfare, Centre for Theology and Public Issues, Occasional Paper No 41.

Sexual Evidence Reformed?’ B. Brown, M. Burman and L. Jamieson in Socio-Legal Research in the Scottish Courts Vol. 3, Scottish Office, Central Research Unit, 1993.

Sexual History and Sexual Character Evidence in Scottish Sexual Offence Trials B. Brown, M. Burman,
L. Jamieson, Scottish Office, Central Research Unit Paper.

Gill Jones and Lynn Jamieson (1997) ‘Migration or Staying On? Decision-Making and Behaviour of Young People in Rural Scotland’, End of Award Report, ESRC Award Reference Number R000235394.

‘The social context of making up your own mind: The decision to leave or stay on at school’ (with Helen
Corr and Nils Tomes), 16-19 Initiative Occasional Papers, No 15

‘Parents and ‘Talking Politics’’ (with Helen Corr and Nils Tomes) 16-19 Initiative Occasional Papers,
No 29.

‘‘Earning your Keep’ Self reliance and family obligation’ (with Helen Corr) 16-19 Initiative Occasional Papers, no 30