Professor Susan Golombok FBA

Parenting and child development in new family forms including same-sex parent families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete donation and surrogacy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Psychology, Sociology

Current post

University of Cambridge Director, Centre for Family Research

University of Cambridge Professor of Family Research

Newnham College, University of Cambridge Professorial Fellow

Past appointments

City University, London Professor of Psychology

Columbia University, New York Visiting Professor

Publications

Regulating Reproductive Donation

Ed. by Susan Golombok, Rosamund Scott, John B. Appleby, Martin Richards and Stephen Wilkinson - Published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press

Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms

Susan Golombok - Published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press

Modern Psychometrics: The Science of Psychological Assessment

John Rust and Susan Golombok - Published in 2009 by Routledge

Third edition

Parenting: What Really Counts?

Susan Golombok - Published in 2000 by Routledge

Modern Psychometrics: Science of Psychological Assessment

John Rust and Susan Golombok - Published in 1999 by Routledge

Second edition

Growing Up in a Lesbian Family: Effects on Child Development

Fiona L. Tasker and Susan Golombok - Published in 1998 by Guilford Press

Gender Development

Susan Golombok and Robyn Fivush - Published in 1994 by Cambridge University Press

Bottling it Up

Valerie Curran and Susan Golombok - Published in 1985 by Faber & Faber

How our understanding of family began to change in 1978

8 Oct 2020 Professor Susan Golombok FBA

Professor Susan Golombok FBA explores turning points in 1978 that brought about fundamental shifts in our understanding of family.

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