Helen Norman

Dr Helen Norman is an Associate Professor at the Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. Her research focuses on fathers and fatherhood, gender inequalities in work and care, and early years education. She holds editorial roles at Work, Employment and Society and Families, Relationships and Societies, and advises organizations like the European Commission and UK government bodies.

She completed her PhD in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester, with prior MSc in Sociological Research Methods and BA in Sociology. Her work uses quantitative methods to analyze how policy and socio-demographics affect unpaid work and work-family reconciliation.

Key projects include ESRC-funded studies on paternal involvement’s impact on children’s education and work-life policies. Media attention highlights her findings on shared parental leave and childcare. She supervises PhD students on topics like ASHA workers in India and gender equality in UK workplaces.

Her research outputs span over 20 peer-reviewed articles and reports, emphasizing longitudinal data analysis and cross-national comparisons. She contributes to policy debates through blogs for Working Families, the Fatherhood Institute, and parliamentary submissions.