Hiranthi Jayaweera is a Senior Researcher working mainly on projects associated with the 'Migration, the state and governance cluster' at COMPAS.
Hiranthi has a DPhil in Sociology and has researched, taught and written about issues related to social divisions, particularly gender and ethnic divisions in the UK.
Before working at COMPAS she was a researcher at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. Her work focused on barriers to care for low income childbearing women, and included analysing data on ethnic minority families in the Millennium Cohort Study.
Selected Publications
Hiranthi Jayaweera, Heather Joshi, Alison Macfarlane, Denise Hawkes, Neville Butler, Pregnancy and childbirth in Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi (eds) Babies of the New Millennium, Policy Press (forthcoming)
Mel Bartley, Lisa Calderwood, Hiranthi Jayaweera, Ian Plewis, Kelly Ward, Children's origins in Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi (eds) Babies of the New Millennium, Policy Press (forthcoming)
Hiranthi Jayaweera, 2005, Lalitha D'souza, Jo Garcia, A local study of childbearing Bangladeshi women in the UK, Midwifery 21(1):84-95