Sole Parents Over the Life Course
The Life Course Centre is the proud recipient of funds bequeathed to The University of Queensland by Dr Mary Wing Ming Lee. Dr Lee was an accomplished clinical psychologist in Hong Kong who graduated from The University of Queensland with a Masters of Psychology in 1996 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2015. The bequest was accepted by the University in 2021 and endowed for perpetual impact. The component bequeathed to the Life Course Centre will help fund an early career research fellowship, under the guidance of Professor Janeen Baxter, to support family dynamics and family systems research with a focus on understanding how family background shapes outcomes for children and adults and to generate evidence for programs and policies to improve family life.
We are delighted to announce that Dr Sandra Buchler is the current Mary Lee Family Dynamics Fellow. Sandra’s research focuses on the life course trajectories of sole parents in Australia.
Please join us to hear the latest research findings from the Mary Lee Family Dynamics Fellow.
Dr Sandra Buchler is the Mary Lee Family Dynamics Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course. She is currently undertaking a research project on the life course trajectories of sole parents in Australia. Sandra holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Queensland. Her broader research interest lies in the role of gender ideology and labour market stratification in perpetuating gender inequality. Her areas of research and expertise include life course transitions, families, gender inequality, female labour force participation, gender ideologies, education, qualitative evaluation and quantitative research methods. Sandra was a Lecturer at the University of Bamberg from 2011 to 2013 and a Senior Lecturer at the Goethe University Frankfurt (2014–2024).