Rate My Professor Maria Evandrou

Professor Maria Evandrou, FAcSS, holds the position of Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southampton. She is the Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing, Doctoral Programme Director for Gerontology, and Departmental Postgraduate Research Director. Additionally, she serves as Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and Co-Director of the ESRC CPC-Connecting Generations research programme. Her academic interests focus on the implications of increasing longevity and the evolving life course, alongside intergenerational relations and exchanges. This encompasses investigations into changing intergenerational relationships, flows of support between generations in later life, and the interplay of work-life balance, employment, and caring responsibilities during mid-life. Evandrou is actively involved in several research projects, including those on work-life balance and caring in mid-life, connecting generations, and intergenerational support.

With 281 publications to her name, Professor Evandrou has made significant contributions to the field of gerontology. Key works include "Unpaid caregiving and job satisfaction: the role of care intensity and duration" published in 2026 in the International Journal of Care and Caring (co-authored with Klara Raiber and Jane Falkingham); "Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care?" in 2024 in the Journal of Social Policy (with Jane Falkingham, Min Qin, and Athina Vlachantoni); "Intergenerational support exchange and the health of older people in contemporary China" in 2025 (with Yazhen Yang and Athina Vlachantoni); "Dynamics of unmet social care needs and depressive symptoms among older adults: evidence from a prospective study in England" in 2025 in Health & Social Care in the Community (with Jane Falkingham, Min Qin, and Athina Vlachantoni); and "Trends in informal caregiving in Great Britain from 1985 to 2020" in 2024 (with Jane Falkingham et al.). She has received the ESRC Impact Prize in 2020 for her work with the Centre for Population Change, highlighting her influence on policy and academic discourse in ageing and population dynamics. In teaching, she delivers modules on Ageing across the Lifecourse, Global Ageing, and Long-Term Care, and supervises PhD students in gerontology.