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Dept. Population Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
Female
Membership Number :21655
Rebecca Sear
Reader, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
rebecca.sear@lshtm.ac.uk
Field of study: Anthropology, Demography, Medical/ Life Science
Specialization: Biodemography and Genetics, Families and Households, Fertility, Mortality, Health, and Longevity
Doctorate (Ph.D, MD), Anthropology, University College London, 2001
- - English
My background is interdisciplinary: after an education in Zoology (BSc, Nottingham University), Statistics (Diploma, University College London) and Biological Anthropology (MSc and PhD, Unversity College London), I taught demography at the London School of Economics for 8 years before moving to Durham University. I took up my current post in the Department of Population Health at LSHTM in April 2012, and work in the Population Studies Group.
I'm interested in developing the emerging discipline of evolutionary demography, and in promoting more comparative, cross-cultural work in demography, making use of data from all world regions. I have particular research interests in relationships between family and fertility, and health and demographic outcomes. Alongside my research programme, I am interested in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in research and currently serve on an institutional working group to improve research culture. I tweet at @rebeccasear
Selected recent publications
Brown, L.J. & Sear, R. (2021) How do reproduction, parenting and health cluster together? Exploring diverging destinies, life histories and weathering in two UK cohort studies. Advances in Life Course Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100431 OSF page with fulltext and supplementary material
Raybould, A. & Sear, R. (2020) Children of the (gender) revolution: a theoretical and empirical synthesis. Population Studies 75(2): 169-190 https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2020.1851748
Sear, R., Sheppard, P., & Coall, D. (2019) Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 374: 20180124 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0124
Sear, R. (2017) Family and fertility: does kin help influence women’s fertility and how does this vary worldwide? Population Horizons 14(1): 18-34 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/186327819.pdf
Wells, J.C.K., Nesse, R., Sear, R., Johnstone, R., Stearns, S. (2017) Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept. Lancet 390(10093): 500-509 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30572-X
Sear, R., Lawson, D.W., Kaplan, H. & Shenk, M.K. (2016) Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 371: 20150144 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0144