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Email

lyn.craig@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor of Sociology and Social Policy
School of Social and Political Sciences
Education
PhD
University of New South Wales
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of New South Wales
Bachelors Degree
Massey University
ORCID

0000-0001-9723-7255

Prof Lyn Craig

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy
School of Social and Political Sciences

101 Scholarly works
7 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Measuring What Matters: Capturing Critical Aspects of Time in Work and Care
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Managing at the Margins: Women Making It Work in Precarious Times
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Dual-Parent Joblessness, Household Work and Its Moderating Role on Children's Joblessness as Young Adults
    DOI: 10.1177/0192513X19894353
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Gender in the gig economy: Men and women using digital platforms to secure work in Australia
    DOI: 10.1177/1440783319894060
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Youth, Recession, and Downward Gender Convergence: Young People’s Employment, Education, and Homemaking in Finland, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States 2000–2013
    DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxy015
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Labor Force Status, Transitions, and Mothers' and Fathers' Parenting Stress: Direct and Cross‐Spousal Influences
    DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12540
  • 2016

    Research Grant

    Policy Frameworks and Market/Non-Market Activity of Young and Older Adults
Lyn Craig

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2016
Scientia Distinguished Professor University of New South Wales
2015
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Constructing the ‘good grandmother’: uncovering intergenerational tensions between grandparent employment and childcare in Australian policy dialogue
    DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X25100494
  • 2026

    Journal article

    (De)gendering employment and family practices through grandparental childcare in Australia
    DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2026.2631440
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Australian Parental Leave Policy, Employers' Cognitive Bias, and Mothers' Wages: Penalty or Premium?
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13216
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Returns to parental higher education across the wage distribution, gender, and the life course
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101067
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Gender and educational patterns in the demand and supply of grandparent childcare in Australia
    DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.366
  • 2025

    Journal article

    The Relationship between Public Policy and Grandparents' Involvement in Childcare: A Scoping Review of the International Evidence
    DOI: 10.1017/S1474746425000077
  • 2024

    Journal article

    A matter of time? Institutional timescapes and gendered inequalities in the transition from education to employment in Australia
    DOI: 10.1177/14407833221135220
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Intersectionality of gender and age (‘gender*age’): a critical realist approach to explaining older women’s increased homelessness
    DOI: 10.1080/14767430.2024.2389675

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