Ewa Batyra is an Associate Professor in Social Demography at the Department of Sociology and a Tutorial Fellow in Human Sciences at St John’s College.
Ewa's research lies in the areas of demography, sociology, and international development. Her latest studies focus on the relationship between social and economic inequality and fertility change, the variation and gender differences in family formation, and the consequences of policy changes for health and families. Ewa currently leads a project, “Diverging patterns of reproductive behaviour within countries across the globe”. Taking a cross-country comparative perspective and focusing on more than 120 nations spanning the Global North and South, this project aims to investigate the patterns, trends, and determinants of growing within-country variation in childbearing age and fertility levels.
Ewa holds a PhD in Demography from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Research interests: demography, family, fertility, sexual and reproductive health, social inequality, international development, social policy, global and comparative analyses
Ewa Batyra
Ewa Batyra is an Associate Professor in Social Demography at the Department of Sociology and a Tutorial Fellow in Human Sciences at St John’s College.
Ewa's research lies in the areas of demography, sociology, and international development. Her latest studies focus on the relationship between social and economic inequality and fertility change, the variation and gender differences in family formation, and the consequences of policy changes for health and families. Ewa currently leads a project, “Diverging patterns of reproductive behaviour within countries across the globe”. Taking a cross-country comparative perspective and focusing on more than 120 nations spanning the Global North and South, this project aims to investigate the patterns, trends, and determinants of growing within-country variation in childbearing age and fertility levels.
Ewa holds a PhD in Demography from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Research interests: demography, family, fertility, sexual and reproductive health, social inequality, international development, social policy, global and comparative analyses