Professor Susan Golombok

Photograph 20 x 13.3 (inches)

Window mount 28 x 22 (inches)

In 2006 Susan Golombok was appointed a Fellow of Newnham College and the Professor of Family Research in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology. Her research focuses on the psychological impact on children of new family forms, with an emphasis on parent-child relationships and children's social, emotional and gender development in families with children conceived using the assisted reproductive techniques of in vitro fertilisation, egg donation, donor insemination and surrogacy.

The Centre for Family Research was established in 1966 as the Unit for Research on the Medical Applications of Psychology by Professor Martin Richards with a grant from the Nuffield Foundation. Its focus on family relationships and child development has remained constant over the last twenty years. It was renamed the Centre for Family Research in 1992.