Dr Ursula Henz

Ursula Henz is an Associate Professor in Social Research Methods at the Sociology Department. Prior to joining LSE, she was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, Germany, at Stockholm University, Sweden, and at King's College, London.

Key expertise: Family, Life Course, Demography, Informal Caregiving, Inequality

Ursula's research has been concerned primarily with longitudinal aspects of compulsory and post-compulsory educational participation, poverty, labour market participation, family dynamics and informal caregiving using a number of large-scale surveys. Most of her work addresses the interrelationship between the spheres of the family and the labour market and pays special attention to gender differences. More recent projects have also addressed homogamy and work-life balance. She is currently finishing analyses into fathers’ time with children that are part of the European Union funded FP7 collaborative project "Families And Societies - Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations".

Ursula is part of the Social Inequalities research cluster.

Dr Henz teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Family Diversity and Change, Family and International Migration, and Families and Inequalities.

She is interested in supervising research projects in the areas of family sociology, demography, social inequality and the life course. She has a particular interest in topics related to informal caregiving; relationships in blended families; fertility; partnerships; the changing roles of men and women; and well-being.