Rate My Professor Maria Evandrou

Professor Maria Evandrou is Professor of Gerontology in the Department of Gerontology at the University of Southampton, part of the Faculty of Social Sciences. She serves as Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing, Doctoral Programme Director for Gerontology, and Departmental PGR Director. Additionally, she is Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) and Co-Director of the ESRC CPC-Connecting Generations research programme, which investigates changing intergenerational relationships, intergenerational flows of support in later life, and work-life balance, employment, and caring responsibilities in mid-life. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), she was awarded the 2020 ESRC Impact Prize for research impact achieved with the Centre for Population Change.

Evandrou's research centres on increasing longevity and the changing life course, with particular emphasis on intergenerational relations and exchange. She leads active projects including 'Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life', 'Connecting Generations', and 'Intergenerational flows of support in later life'. Her completed projects encompass 'Ageing and Well-Being in a Globalizing World' (ESRC-funded), 'Understanding resilience in later life in a low resource setting' (ESRC), the ESRC GCRF Global Ageing and Long-term Care Network (GALNet), and others addressing social protection, poverty alleviation, health risks of extended working life, and family demography in low and middle-income countries. With 281 publications, key works include 'Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care?' (Journal of Social Policy, 2024), 'Unpaid caregiving and job satisfaction: the role of care intensity and duration' (International Journal of Care and Caring, 2026), 'Trends in informal caregiving in Great Britain from 1985 to 2020' (2024), and highly cited papers such as 'Marital status, health and mortality' (Maturitas, 2012) and 'Ethnic inequalities in limiting health and self-reported health in later life' (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2016). She teaches modules on Ageing across the lifecourse, Global ageing, and Long-Term Care, contributing reports like 'Lone parents: the invisible “sandwich generation”' (2024) and 'Social care provision in Great Britain' (2024).