Professor Sarah Childs (born 1969) is a British Professor who has worked at

Bristol University The University of Bristol is a public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Bristol, which had ...

, Birkbeck,

Royal Holloway Royal Holloway, University of London (RH), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public university, public research university and a constituent college, member institution of the federal University of London. It ...

and the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

where she holds their Personal Chair of Politics and Gender.

Life

Childs was born in 1969 and began lecturing at the University of Bristol in 2009. In 2014 she published research with Rosie Campbell which indicated that women conservatives were not as right wing as male conservatives on issues that related to economics. In 2014 she moved to Birkbeck College and then Royal Holloway which are both parts of the University of London. In 2020 she started work at the University of Edinburgh. In 2006 Childs and Mona Lena Krook published the book they had edited ''Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader''. In 2015 she was seconded to work in the UK Parliament and as a result "The Good Parliament (TGP) Report" was published. Its recommendations that included maternity leave were gradually adopted. In 2021 the Centenary Action Group published her report ''Remotely Representative House'' which she had written with Jessica C. Smith. The report looked at the good things that had happened due to the

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as it had caused remote working at the

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and there were benefits for parents and constituents when MPs worked remotely.

Selected works

*"Rethinking Women's Substantive Representation" (co-authored with Karen Celis, Mona Lena Krook, and Johanna Kantola), ''Representation'' (2008) *''Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader'', 2010 * ''The Good Parliament (TGP) Report'', 2016 * ''Feminist Democratic Representation'', (written with Karen Celis), 2020

Awards

In 2015, the

Political Studies Association The Political Studies Association (PSA) is a learned society in the United Kingdom which exists to develop and promote the study of politics. It is the leading association in its field in the United Kingdom, with an international membership includi ...

(PSA) gave Childs a national award for sustained and significant contribution to the study of politics and gender. In 2022 her book ''Feminist Democratic Representation'' jointly won the PSA W.J.M. MacKenzie book prize.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Childs, Sarah 1969 births Living people British gender studies academics British women academics