Dr Emma Davidson
Director, CRFR
Emma is a Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research Methods and a co-director at the Binks Hub which champions community-led, arts-informed research. Her research interests focus on youth transitions and community studies, with particular interest in social infrastructure and inequalities. With fellow co-director Lynn, she has developed techniques to think about, handle and analyse large volumes of complex qualitative data.
Dr Jeni Harden
Director, CRFR
Prof Lynn Jamieson
Director, CRFR
Lynn is Professor of Sociology, Families and Relationships and a founding co-director of CRFR. She previously served as President of the British Sociological Association. Lynn is known internationally for her research on intimacy, identity and social change. Her current research interests include the power of families and relationships to influence responses to climate change and issues of sustainability.
Director, CRFR
Michelle is a Lecturer at the School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh. She has a strong interest in leadership, mentoring roles and marginalisation and health for ethnic minority communities. She focuses on beliefs, culture, ethnicity, traditions and practices and how these impact on wellbeing and health and illness experiences for individuals and families.
Dr Kaveri Qureshi
Director, CRFR
Kaveri is a Senior Lecturer at the Global Health Policy Unit which lies within the Social Policy subject area of the University of Edinburgh. She studies the combined effects of race/ethnicity, class and gender on health and intimate relationships, specifically chronic ill health, relationship breakdown and divorce, reproductive health and work, and COVID-19.
Dr Shruti Chaudhry
Director, CRFR
Shruti is a Chancellor’s Fellow in sociology. She is a qualitative researcher focusing on migration, families and intimate relationships, ageing and the life-course, social change and gender and intersecting inequalities. Previously, she worked in women’s studies and development studies in India. Her doctoral research, also completed at Edinburgh sociology, was an ethnographic study of marriage migration in rural north India that explored the gendering of intimacy in an arranged marriage, often violent context. More recently, her research has focused on minority ethnic ageing in the UK, more specifically the relational lives of older adults of South-Asian heritage in Scotland.