Katherine Twamley

Katherine Twamley is Professor of Sociology at the Social Research Institute at UCL. She chairs the UCL Sociology Network – the cross-university group for sociologists at UCL – and is an editorial board member of The Sociological Review and an editor of the Routledge Sociological Futures Book series. Katherine’s research focuses on gender, love and intimacy, social policy, and families, with a particular interest in international comparative and longitudinal research. She is author of ‘Caring is Sharing? Couples navigating parental leave at the transition to parenthood’ (UCL Press, 2024) and ‘Love, marriage and intimacy among Gujarati Indians: A Suitable Match’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) which was shortlisted for the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Award. To hear more about Katherine’s research on the sociology of intimacy, you can listen to a podcast as part of the Uncommon Sense Podcast series.