Introducing the network
The International Network on Leave Policies and Research (LP&R) provides a unique forum for exchange, dialogue and collaboration on issues of care, employment and gender. It consists of over 60 members, all experts on leave issues and who come from over 50 countries across the world.
In existence since 2004, LP&R holds yearly seminars in a host country (Programme 2025) and produces a yearly Annual Review (Review 2024).
Coordinators 2021-2026
LP&R is led in a collaborative spirit with shared responsibilities.
Dr Marian Baird
marian.baird@sydney.edu.au
Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Head of the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Dr Andrea Doucet
adoucet@brocku.ca
Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care, CANADA
Dr Johanna Lammi-Taskula
johanna.lammi-taskula@thl.fi
Research Manager at Welfare State Research Unit at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), FINLAND
Dr Gerardo Meil
gerardo.meil@uam.es
Head of the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SPAIN
Annual review Editors 2025
Prof Dr Ivana Dobrotic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Prof Dr Sonja Blum (Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany)
Dr Gayle Kaufman (Davidson College, USA)
Dr Alison Koslowski (Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London, UK)
Dr Peter Moss (UCL London, UK)
Dr Marie Valentova (LISER)
Communication Coordinators
Kenya Thomppson, kenyat98@yorku.ca, York University, Toronto, Canada
Jennifer Turner, jturner2@brocku.ca, Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada
Dr Eva-Maria Schmidt, eva-maria.schmidt@univie.ac.at, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
Founders
LP&R was founded by Fred Deven (CBGS - Population and Family Study Centre) and Peter Moss (Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL) who co-ordinated the leave network until 2015 (see History).
From 2015 to 2021 Margaret O'Brien and Ann-Zofie Duvander shared responsibilities of coordinating the LP&R Network (see photo, P. Moss and F. Deven with A. Koslowski (Editor Review), M. O'Brien, A-Z Duvander).
