Dr Maria Iacovou

Director of Social Sciences Research Methods Centre (SSRMC), University of Cambridge, UK

Maria Iacovou is the Director of the Social Sciences Research Methods Centre at the University of Cambridge, responsible for delivering training in research methods to postgraduate students across a large number of disciplines in the University; she is also a Reader in the Department of Sociology. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to research, having trained as an economist, and having published across a range of other disciplines including demography, statistics and epidemiology. Her research interests are centred around family relationships, with a particular focus on cross-national differences in family forms.