Surrey Perinatal
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Together with our partner organisations, the Institute for Health Visiting and the National Childbirth Trust, we translated our research on mothers’ and fathers’ perinatal mental health into workshops, infographics, factographics, evidence reviews, training and parent-facing material oriented to enhancing support for perinatal mental health.
Aims and objectives
- To inform and engage with key antenatal and postnatal professionals in order to enhance their support for parents with respect to perinatal mental health
- To enhance the provision of well-informed direct communication about perinatal mental health issues with new parents via on and offline materials
- To improve communication and support related to especially neglected or difficult to reach groups, including fathers and migrant mothers.
Team
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Professor Ranjana Das
Professor
Biography
I am a Professor in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Surrey. My research interests span technology use and user centric research on algorithms, datafication, and broader digital technologies.
I dovetail these interests often with my interest in families, parenting and parenthood. I also have a longstanding background of interest and expertise in media audiences, including 'audiences' in transforming media environments. I hold a PhD from the Department of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics(2008-2011) where I was supervised by Professor Sonia Livingstone. I was Post-doctoral Fellow at Leuphana, University of Luneburg(2011-2012) and Lecturer at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester (2012-2017).
I joined the University of Surrey as Senior Lecturer in 2017, was promoted to Reader in 2018 and promoted to Professor in 2021. I have directed a research consortium on the future of audiences in the context of emerging technologies (funded by the AHRC, 2015-2018), and have been Chair of the Audience and Reception Studies division of the ECREA (2014-2017).
Current and recent projects -
2023-2025: Leverhulme Research Project Grant: Parents', news use, risks and crises in datafied societies (PI)
New book: ‘Parents talking algorithms’: Due out in November 2024, with Bristol University Press.
2023-2025: British Academy Grant: Linguistic minority families, emerging technologies, and the raising of bilingual children (PI)
2022-2023: Data-driven media personalisation (Co-I): Funded by AI4ME, with Philip Jackson (FEPS), Rhianne Jones (BBC) and Yen Nee Wong (Kent)
Outside of these current and recent projects, my work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the ESRC impact fund.
Potential PhD students: I am happy to consider PhD proposals in various areas within sociology and media and communications.
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Professor Paul Hodkinson
Professor of Sociology
Biography
- I research fathers and fathering, masculinities and the life course, youth cultures, and digital social media spaces.
- My books include New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication, Sharing Care: Equal and Primary Carer Fathers and Early Years Parenting, Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture, Media, Culture and Society, Youth Cultures and Ageing and Youth Cultures.
- Academic journals I have published in include Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, New Media and Society, Social Media and Society and Journal of Youth Studies.
- I have examined 38 PhDs and have supervised 10 PhD students through to completion.
- My work on youth subcultures features in UK Sociology A-Level syllabi.
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