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Welcome to my website! My name is Kieron Barclay. I am a Pro Futura Scientia XIV Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and an Associate Professor in Sociology at Stockholm University. I am also a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
My research is in the field of social demography and primarily concerns how family conditions are related to health and mortality, with a particular focus on the interrelationship between health and fertility. For example, my research has addressed how health affects childbearing, and how an individual's reproductive history affects their post-reproductive health and mortality. A primary theme of my work has been to examine the consequences of parental fertility decisions for their children; for example, my research has examined how parental age at the time of birth, spacing between births, family size, and birth order affects children's health and mortality at various stages of the life course, as well as their educational and socioeconomic attainment. I am also interested in how health affects partnership formation, and how bereavement affects subsequent mortality. More generally, I am also interested in how families contribute to health inequality at the macro-level. I am mainly working with Nordic population registers, but some of my research also examines low- and middle-income countries using the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). You can find my work in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Social Forces, Population and Development Review, Nature, International Journal of Epidemiology, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Some of this work has been covered in international news outlets such as The Telegraph, Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Deutschlandfunk, Svenska Dagbladet, Sveriges Radio, El País, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, as well as others. Please follow the links to read more about my publications, view my CV, visit my Google Scholar page, or contact me. |
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