Phone: +61 (02) 9385 7842
Email: lcraig@unsw.edu.au

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HDR Supervision:

Dr Craig welcomes PhD candidates with an interest in care, work-family balance, time use, motherhood, fatherhood, gender equity, the gendered division of labour, fertility, life course transitions, the intersections between the family and the economy, paid and unpaid work, and welfare regime analysis, comparative family and social policy.

Research Areas:

Gender, time use, care of children, motherhood, fatherhood, parenthood, equity, work-family balance, unpaid work, social reproduction, the gendered division of labour, fertility, care, comparative policy analysis, welfare regimes family policy, social policy

Research:

Current research projects include:

• Trends in Time: Work, Family and Social Policy in Australia 1992-2006
• If Men did more housework, would women have more babies? Cross-national fertility rates and the gender division of labour.
• Sole mothers' time allocation to paid work and Childcare in contrasting policy regimes

More information on Current research projects

External grants and awards:

2008-2011: Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant ‘Trends in Time: Work, Family and Social Policy in Australia 1992-2006’ Industry Partners: Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA), Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

2006-2009: ARC Discovery Grant and Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘If men did more housework, would women have more babies? Cross national fertility rates and the gender division of labour’

2004-2005: Time Use Research Fellowship, Children and parental time: a gender analysis, Office of the Status of Women, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australian Commonwealth Government

2001-2004: Australian Postgraduate Award ‘The Hidden Cost of Parenthood’ Department of Education and Training, Australian Commonwealth Government

Publications:

Book

Recent Journal Articles:

Forthcoming: (with Pooja Sawrikar) ‘Work and Family: how does the (gender) balance change as children grow?’ Gender, Work and Organisation (accepted 21/02/08)

2008: ‘Valuing by Doing: Policy Options to Promote Sharing the Care’ Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering (special issue on ‘Care-giving and care-work: theory and practice’) 10 (1): 45-56 [pdf]

2008: (with Pooja Sawrikar) ‘Satisfaction with work-family balance for parents of early adolescents compared to parents of younger children‘ Journal of Family Studies 14: 91–106 [pdf]

2008: (with Michael Bittman) ‘The Incremental Time Costs of Children: An analysis of children’s impact on adult time use in Australia’ Feminist Economics 14 (2): 57-85 [pdf]

2007: 'Is there really a "second shift", and if so, who does it? A time-diary investigation' Feminist Review 86 (1) 149-170 [pdf]

2007: 'How employed mothers in Australia find time for both market work and childcare' Journal of Family and Economic Issues 28 (1): 69-87 [pdf]

2006: 'Parental education, time in paid work and time with children: an Australian time-diary analysis' British Journal of Sociology 57 (4): 553-575 (Named in Kanter Top 20 2008 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research) [pdf]

2006: 'Do Time Use Patterns Influence Fertility Decisions? A cross-national inquiry' electronic International Journal for Time Use Research 3 (1): 60-88 [pdf]

2006: 'Children and the Revolution: A time-diary analysis of the impact of motherhood on daily workload' the Journal of Sociology 42 (2): 125-143 [pdf]

2006: 'Does Father Care Mean Fathers Share? A comparison of how mothers and fathers in intact families spend time with children' Gender and Society, 20 (2): 259-281 (Honorable Mention 2008 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research) [pdf]

2005: 'The Money or the Care? A comparison of couple and sole parent households' time allocation to work and children, Australian Journal of Social Issues 40 (4) 521-540 [pdf]

Recent Book chapter:

2004: (with Michael Bittman and Nancy Folbre) 'Packaging Care: What happens when parents utilize non-parental childcare’in Folbre, N. and Bittman, M. (eds) Family Time: The Social Organization of Care, London, Routledge.

Refereed conference proceedings:

2004: ‘Earning Capacity or Caring Capacity? A time-diary analysis of how parental education affects time spent with children’ TASA Conference Proceedings

Recent Book reviews:

2007: ‘Time for Life, Over the Lifetime’ Review of Brian Howe Weighing Up Australian Values: Balancing Transitions and Risks to Work and Family in Modern Australia, Sydney, UNSW Press, 2007: Australian Review of Public Affairs http://www.australianreview.net/

2006: Review of Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg (eds) Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life: Feminist Economics 12 (4): 696-700

Recent Reports on funded research projects:

2007: (with Pooja Sawrikar) The effect of (dis)satisfaction with the division of domestic labour on relationship survival report prepared for FaHCSIA, Australian Federal Government, Canberra

2006: (with Pooja Sawrikar) ‘Work and Family Balance: Transitions to High School’ report prepared for FaCSIA, Australian Federal Government, Canberra

2006: (with Michael Bittman, Jude Brown and Denise Thompson) ‘Management of Work and Family Strain’, report prepared for FaHCSIA, Australian Federal Government, Canberra