Prof. Rosalind Edwards

Rosalind Edwards is Professor in Social Policy and director of the Families & Social Capital Research Group (www.lsbu.ac.uk/families). Her main area of expertise is family lives, involving lateral (parents, siblings) and intergenerational (parent-child, grandparents) relationships. She has carried out research on a variety of issues relevant to family policy. She recently completed a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded project on parenting 'mixed' children: negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race, ethnicity and faith families, and is now working on a qualitative, longitudinal seven-year study of children and young people's sibling and friendship relations (www.lsbu.ac.uk/families/yourspace) as part of the larger Timescapes consortium study (www.timescapes.leeds.ac.uk).

Rosalind is expert in the use of a range of qualitative methods, but has also carried out several projects that combine quantitative and qualitative methods. She has published widely on all these topics.

Rosalind also has an interest in the use of interpreters, both for people who speak little English and need to access services, and as part of the research process. She has carried out work in both fields.