Jenny is a quantitative social demographer with a critical feminist approach to her research. Her substantive research interests include a range of topics across family demography and social policy, including family circumstances and outcomes, gender, inequalities in paid and unpaid work. Jenny is a  founding member of FemQuant, a network for researchers across the social sciences interested in feminist approaches using quantitative data and methods. 

Jenny is is currently analysing Norwegian Population Register data working on European Research Council funded project (MARTE) investigating the effects of Medically Assisted Reproduction on children and adults. Prior to this she worked on an Economic & Social Research Council funded project focusing on the characteristics, circumstances and outcomes of ‘only children’ over the life course, involving analysis of four UK birth cohorts.  

For her doctoral studies Jenny was awarded the ESRC with Advanced Quantitative Methods Scholarship, and her thesis examined stability and change in gendered and classed work-family life courses across cohorts in the UK. She has extensive experience and expertise in handling large datasets, including birth cohorts and other longitudinal surveys and administrative and population register data.