Professor Paula Giliker of the Bristol Law School and Professors Esther Dermott and Misa Izahura of Bristol’s School for Policy were selected through an independent peer review which recognises their excellence and impact, including their wider contributions to social sciences for public benefit.
Professor Esther Dermott is an eminent social scientist working on gendered inequalities in familial and household relationships, and transformations in parenting.
She has an international reputation for her studies on contemporary fatherhood, notably the extent to which discourse and practices around ‘good’ fatherhood align, and how positive changes can be supported through policy interventions.
She is currently involved in funded research on Syrian refugee fathers (British Academy); the process of parental separation (Nuffield Foundation); changing familial roles (ESRC); and the sociodigital future of care (ESRC).
Misa Izuhara is Professor of Social Policy with the expertise of the analysis of the dynamic interactions between housing (wealth) and intergenerational relations, and their associations with inequalities across the life-course. Her research projects include a number of ESRC-funded grants which have explored the role of housing and asset-based welfare including their significance for family dynamics, retirement possibilities and household decision-making. She is the author of Housing, Care and Inheritance, Housing in Post-Growth Society and editor of Research Agenda for East Asian Social Policy.