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2023

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42
Citations
8135
World Ranking
435
National Ranking
69

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Sarah Childs is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans social sciences and medicine, with a primary focus on gender studies, economics and econometrics, and political science and international relations. Their interdisciplinary approach addresses topics such as gender politics and representation, health systems and economic evaluations, health disparities and outcomes, social policy, political and economic history, historical gender and feminism studies, and COVID-19 related mental health issues.

Their publication record includes various research articles and a book, demonstrating engagement with both social and medical fields. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Reclaiming party politics research," 2022, European Political Science
  • "From women's presence to feminist representation: second-generation design for women's group representation," 2023, European Journal of Politics and Gender
  • "Feminist Institutional Change: The Case of the UK Women and Equalities Committee," 2022, Parliamentary Affairs
  • "Analysis of treatment cost differences in patients undergoing femoral versus radial access in outpatient diagnostic cerebral arteriograms," 2023, Interventional Neuroradiology
  • "Gender Sensitizing Parliaments: Reflections on Becoming a Feminist Academic Critical Actor," 2024, Politics and Governance

They have coauthored frequently with several scholars, including Karen Celis, Udit Nindra, Robert Yoon, Sana Haider, and Martin Hong. Collaborative work appears consistent across multiple studies and cohorts.

Their contributions have been published in venues such as:

  • European Journal of Politics and Gender
  • Australasian Psychiatry
  • European Political Science
  • Parliamentary Affairs
  • Interventional Neuroradiology

In terms of book publications, Sarah Childs has a title published by Springer International Publishing titled Social Partners and Gender Equality (2021).

Their body of work addresses a wide range of social and political themes, often centered on gender issues within institutional and political contexts, as well as intersections between health policy and economics. This multidisciplinary reach reflects a research portfolio that integrates analysis of feminist representation, parliamentary gender sensitization, and health service evaluations.

Best Publications

  • Analysing Women's Substantive Representation: From Critical Mass to Critical Actors

    Sarah Childs;Mona Lena Krook

  • RETHINKING WOMEN'S SUBSTANTIVE REPRESENTATION

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs;Johanna Kantola;Mona Lena Krook

  • Critical Mass Theory and Women's Political Representation

    Sarah Childs;Mona Lena Krook

  • Should Feminists Give Up on Critical Mass? A Contingent Yes

    Sarah Childs;Mona Lena Krook

  • New Labour's Women MPs: Women Representing Women

    Sarah Childs

  • The Substantive Representation of Women: What to Do with Conservative Claims?

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs

  • Women and British Party Politics: Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation

    Sarah Childs

  • Introduction: The Descriptive and Substantive Representation of Women: New Directions

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs

  • A Feminised Style of Politics? Women MPs in the House of Commons

    Sarah Childs

  • Constituting women's interests through representative claims

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs;Johanna Kantola;Mona Lena Krook

  • Gender and Politics: the State of the Art

    Sarah Childs;Mona Lena Krook

  • Too Spineless to Rebel? New Labour's Women MPs

    Philip Cowley;Sarah Childs

  • Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party : From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels

    Sarah L Childs;Paul Webb

  • Women Representatives Acting for Women: Sex and the Signing of Early Day Motions in the 1997 British Parliament:

    Sarah Childs;Julie Withey

  • Women, gender, and politics : a reader

    Sarah L Childs;ML Krook

  • The Complicated Relationship between Sex, Gender and the Substantive Representation of Women:

    Sarah L Childs

  • Revolts and Rebellions: parliamentary voting under Blair

    Sarah L Childs;P Cowley

  • Do Women Need Women Representatives

    Rosie Campbell;Sarah Childs;Joni Lovenduski

  • Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party

    Sarah Childs;Paul Webb

  • The Politics of Local Presence: Is there a Case for Descriptive Representation?

    Sarah Childs;Philip Cowley

  • In their own words: New Labour women and the substantive representation of women

    Sarah L Childs

  • Women and British party politics

    Sarah L Childs

  • Feminist Democratic Representation

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs

  • Developments in British Politics 8

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Frequent Co-Authors

Rosie Campbell
Rosie Campbell King's College London
Karen Celis
Karen Celis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex
Mona Lena Krook
Mona Lena Krook Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Johanna Kantola
Johanna Kantola University of Helsinki
Joni Lovenduski
Joni Lovenduski Birkbeck, University of London
Philip Cowley
Philip Cowley Queen Mary University of London
David Cutts
David Cutts Brown University
Edward Fieldhouse
Edward Fieldhouse University of Manchester

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