Ellie started following the work of penny lewis, Robert Gordon University, Scott Sutherland School.
Ellie started following the work of Deborah Lupton, University of Sydney, Department of Sociology and Social Policy.
Ellie started following the work of Joel Cohen, SOAS University of London, Department of Social Science and Law.
Faculty Member, SSPSSR
Reader in Social Policy
About
Elllie’s research and teaching draws on constructionist theories of social problems and sociological concepts such as ‘risk consciousness’ and ‘medicalisation’ to analyse the evolution of family policy and health policy. Her longest standing research area is abortion policy and service provision and more recently she has developed research projects about parenting. Her work explores why everyday issues – for example how mothers feed their babies - turn into major preoccupations for policy makers and become heated topics of wider public debate. She is the Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies based in SSPSSR https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/ and regularly discusses her research in the media and other public forums. She is a Director of the Institute of Ideas, and in her spare time she co-ordinates Pro Choice Forum www.prochoiceforum.org She published Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the U.S. and Britain (Aldine Transaction) and has articles in journals including Sociology of Health and Illness, Health, Risk and Society and Reproductive Health Matters.
