Anna Tarrant

Anna Tarrant is Professor of Sociology and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the UNiversity of Lincoln. Her research expertise broadly focuses on men’s care responsibilities, welfare and support needs, in low-income families and contexts and across the lifecourse. She is author and co-author of several books exploring marginalised fatherhoods including: 'Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men's Family Participation in Low income families' (Policy Press, 2021), 'Men, Family and Poverty' with Prof Kahryn Hughes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and 'The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood' with Emerita Professor Bren Neale (Policy Press, 2024).

In recent years, she has also led and/or co-edited several edited collections, including 'Men and Welfare' with Linzi Ladlow and Laura Way (Routledge, 2022), 'Covid-19 Collaborations' with Garthwaite et al. (2021, Policy Press) and 'Qualitative Secondary Analysis' with Kahryn Hughes (Sage, 2020).

She is currently the Director of the UKRI funded Future Leaders Fellowship study, 'Following Young Fathers Further' (FYFF). This qualitative longitudinal and comparative study extends existing evidence concerning the parenting trajectories and support needs of young fathers (aged 25 and under). Using novel methods of co-creation the study involves the implementation and capture of a novel community-based intervention called the Young Dads Collective that promotes father-inclusive and gender-equal parenting through partnership working with young fathers and national family and youth support organisations. Establishing a new collaboration between UK charities (including NSPCC, Coram Family Childcare and YMCA Humber) and international academic partners in Sweden, FYFF represents a significant investment in research, and policy and practice development for young parents.