Centre for Research on Families and Relationships

How is the value of co-producing research understood?

Helen Berry began her doctoral research just over a year ago, exploring the co-production of research. But her journey through the subject matter began before that.

Read more on the challenges of defining co-produced research, what we know of its outcomes, and how Helen’s project is expected to add to collective efforts in troubling reductive framings of research ‘impact’.

Shruti Chaudhry: CRFR’s new director

Shruti Chaudhry is Chancellor’s Fellow in sociology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD at Edinburgh sociology. Before arriving at Edinburgh, she worked in the field of gender and development in India.

Opportunities for connection and support around self-managed abortion

by Purcell, Newton, Bloomer, Oluseye and Hoggart
Abortion provision in the United Kingdom has undergone significant changes in recent years. 2018 saw permissions in Britain for home use of the second of two medications used in early medication abortion (EMA). And, in 2019, abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland.

Companionship and family-building in the complex planetary future

by Lisa Howard
What might the future look like in terms of how family and intimate lives are composed? How do cultural expectations of childbearing collide with changing family forms and challenging environmental, social, and economic contexts, and what does this mean for traditional notions of ‘the family’?