Personal Details
Title: Research Reader and Deputy Director, Centre for Time Use Research
College Affiliation:Visiting Fellow, St. Hugh's College
Education: BA Durham, MSc, PhD London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. CV
Contact Details
Email: oriel.sullivan@sociology.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 271980
Office Hours: by appointment
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Research Projects:
- Work-family balance
- Changing gender relations
- Consumption of time
My substantive research area is families and households, with a focus on the domestic division of labour as a key arena of potential transformation in gender relations. My main methodological contribution in this area has involved the analysis of time-use diary data, using such data to investigate aspects of the changing domestic division of labour and the use of time more generally among couples. I have been extensively involved in both developing and using the multi-national time-use study (MTUS). My research has in recent years widened into an interest in issues of consumption, and currently involves a cross-national investigation of time, gender and leisure activities, as well as research on changing work and consumption patterns in different welfare policy regimes.
Selected Recent Publications:
O. Sullivan 2006. Changing Gender Relations, Changing Families: Tracing the Pace of Change. New York: Rowman and Littlefield (Gender Lens Series), pp. 141
O. Sullivan (forthcoming) ‘Changing differences by educational attainment in fathers' domestic labour and child care' Sociology
O. Sullivan, S. Coltrane, L. McAnnally and E. Altintas 2009. 'Father-friendly policies and time use data in a cross-national context: potential and prospects for future research' Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science
O. Sullivan 2008. 'Busyness, status distinction and consumption strategies of the income-rich, time-poor'. Time & Society 17/1, 71-92
O. Sullivan and T. Katz-Gerro 2007 'The omnivorousness thesis revisited: voracious cultural consumers'. European Sociological Review 23/2, 123-137
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