Graduate Student, University of Cambridge

Anja McConnachie is a PhD student and Research Assistant at the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge. She joined the CFR in October 2015 to work as Research Assistant on the UK longitudinal study of adoptive two-parent gay father, lesbian mother and heterosexual parent families. The aim of this longitudinal study is to investigate parent-child relationships and the adjustment of adopted children raised in different family structures. Anja’s PhD is supervised by Professor Susan Golombok and focuses on the specific outcomes for boys and girls of being raised in families headed by two mothers, two fathers or by a mother and a father.