School of Social and Political Science

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About the seminar:

While qualitative research presents obvious strengths for critical & feminist population research, quantification is also essential to critical social science’s emancipatory aim. In this talk, I take feminist critiques of demography & public health seriously, to demonstrate how we can include social structure, better model distributions and heterogeneity, and use critical theory to shape research questions, within quantitative population research. Focusing on my work explaining health and reproductive inequalities, I aim to showcase how a critical quantitative approach can add to our understanding of the dynamics between power processes, institutions, social policies and population outcomes.

By Laura Sochas

Laura is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy, who studies how social policies shape reproductive inequalities using quantitative methods and a Reproductive Justice framework