Dr. Paul Kershaw is a farmer morning and night. By day, he is an academic, public speaker, media contributor and volunteer. In these latter roles, he is one of Canada's leading thinkers about family policy, receiving two national prizes from the Canadian Political Science Association for his research. 'Armed with a laptop and a raft of statistics,' The Vancouver Province describes Kershaw as 'a one-man road show trying to change Canada one talk at a time.' Change is necessary, he argues, because Canada no longer works for all generations. At the University of British Columbia, in the College for Interdisciplinary Studies, Kershaw is the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) Scholar of Social Care, Citizenship and the Determinants of Health.

Publications

• A New Deal for Families - Fact Sheet

  • 2011
  • Kershaw P. , Anderson L.

• Does Canada Work for All Generations? National Summary

  • 2011
  • Kershaw P. , Anderson L.

• The politics and power in caregiving for identity: Insights for Indian residential school truth and reconciliation

  • 2011 Social Politics
  • Kershaw P. , Harkey T.

• A benefit/cost analysis of Smart Family Policy for gender equality: In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada

  • 2010
  • Kershaw P. , Anderson L.

• Caregiving for identity is political: Implications for citizenship theory

  • 2010 Citizenship Studies
  • Kershaw P.

• Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivity

  • 2010 Critical Social Policy
  • Pulkingham J. , Fuller S. , Kershaw P.

• Selection of area-level variables from administrative data: An intersectional approach to the study of place and child development

  • 2010 Health & Place
  • Kershaw P. , Forer B.

• The commodification of women, equal care obligations for men, and autonomous households: Gendering the comparative analysis of welfare states in 20 OECD countries

  • 2010
  • Kershaw P.

• The economic costs of early vulnerability in Canada

  • 2010 Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • Kershaw P. , Warburton B. , Anderson L. , Hertzman C. , Irwin L. , Forer B.

• The "private" politics in caregiving: Reflections on Ruth Lister's citizenship: feminist perspectives

  • 2010 Women Studies Quarterly
  • Kershaw P.

• The just commodification of women, equal care obligations for men, and autonomous households: Gendering the comparative analysis of welfare states in 20 OECD countries

  • 2010
  • Kershaw P.

• Gender equality and child development: Re-thinking family policy

  • 2010
  • Kershaw P.

• Creating communities for young children: A toolkit for change

  • 2009
  • Schroeder J. , Harvey J. , Razaz-Rahmati N. , Corless G. , Negreiros J. , Ford L. , Kershaw P. , Anderson L. , Wiens M. , Vaghri Z. , Stefanowicz A. , Irwin L. , Hertzman C.

• Eliminating the early vulnerability debt with new family policy

  • 2009
  • Kershaw P.

• The use of population-level data to advance interdisciplinary methodology: A cell-through-society sampling framework for child development research

  • 2009 International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  • Kershaw P. , Forer B. , Lloyd J. , Hertzman C. , Boyce T. , Zumbo B. , Guhn M. , Milbrath C. , Irwin L. , Harvey J. , Hershler R. , Smith A. N.

• 15 by 15: A comprehensive policy framework for early human capital investment in BC

  • 2009
  • Kershaw P. , Anderson L.

• Expanding early childhood education and care programming: Highlights of a literature review, and public policy implications for British Columbia

  • 2008
  • Goelman H. , Anderson L. , Kershaw P. , Mort J. N.

• Expanding early childhood education and care programming: References and information sources

  • 2008
  • Goelman H. , Anderson L. , Kershaw P. , Mort J. N.

• Supporting parents to care and earn: An economic priority that can’t be ignored

  • 2007
  • Kershaw P. , Anderson L. , Goelman H.

• Carefair: Choice, duty and the distribution of care

  • 2006
  • Kershaw P.

• Hidden fragility: Closure among licensed child-care services in British Columbia

  • 2005 Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Kershaw P. , Forer B. , Goelman H.

• The British Columbia atlas of child development

  • 2005
  • Kershaw P. , Trafford K. , Hertzman C.

Projects

• Family Policy
• Family Policy Resources & Reports