Lowri is a current doctoral researcher on the ESRC 1+3 scholarship. She joined the programme following a Masters in Organisational Behaviour from Aston University and a degree in Business Management at the University of Birmingham. She has since completed an MA in Social Research.
Lowri has experience working with organisations and advising them on policies for LGBTQ+ parents. She has previously conducted an ESRC-funded project with the University of Birmingham and Aviva, examining Aviva’s parenting policies and their use by LGBTQ+ parents to understand and identify any barriers or areas of improvement to these policies.
Lowri has worked as a Research Assistant for the University of Birmingham for several years as part of the Equal Parenting Project, which aims to improve the use of family-friendly policies in the UK and encourage equality in the workplace. As part of this Lowri has worked on Government and Higher Education research projects such as the development of the 'Fathers in the Workplace Toolkit' which was launched in the House of Commons in March 2019. More recently she was involved in a collaborative project undertaken between the Equal Parenting Project at the University of Birmingham and the Work Autonomy, Flexibility and Work-Life Balance Project at the University of Kent as part of The Working From Home During COVID-19 Lockdown project. This project sought to examine employees, employers and managers’ experiences of home-working in lockdown and beyond during the COVID-19 global pandemic.