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The Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) hosts a weekly seminar series, where invited speakers present work of relevance to the research interests of the unit.
笔谤辞驳谤补尘尘别听2024鈥�25
Please follow the聽links to find instructions on how to register for each event.
3 October 2024, 12聽- 1聽pm
- An overlooked force - Dr Katie Gaddini (TCRU)
10 October 2024, 12聽- 1聽pm
- Reproducing queer subjects in UK biosocial birth cohort research - Taylor Riley (果冻影院)
17 October 2024, 12聽- 1聽pm
- Contextualising the early childhood workforce聽- Pamela Oberhuemer (TCRU)
24 October 2024, 12聽- 1聽pm
- Examining access to mental health services for social work-experienced young people -聽Robbie Duschinsky and Julia Mannes (University of Cambridge)
14 November, 12 - 1 pm
- Factors shaping the divergent post-work lives of global factory workers - Sandya聽Hewamanne
笔谤辞驳谤补尘尘别听2023鈥�24
21 November 2023, 1 - 2聽pm
- Co-creating a father-inclusive practice and policy ecosystem - Anna Tarrant (University of Lincoln)
28 November 2023, 1聽- 2聽pm
- Uncertain futures: Finding solutions to inequality through art and research -聽Elaine Dewhurst (University of Manchester)
09 January 2024, 1 - 2 pm
- Are you sitting uncomfortably? Researching 鈥業slamophilia鈥� and queerness as a queer Islamophile - Jonathan Galton (TCRU)
23 January 2024, 1 - 2聽pm
06 February 2024, 1 - 2聽pm
20 February 2024, 1 - 2 pm
- Reception of oocytes from partner (ROPA): Exploring a pathway to motherhood of lesbians in China - Xuerui Hu
- Discursive constructions of forced marriage: How forced marriage is understood in school communities - Lottie Howard-Merrill
27 February 2024, 1 - 2聽pm
- The formative intersections of 鈥榬ace鈥�, nation and generation - Rachel Rosen and Veena Meeto
5 March 2024, 1 - 2聽pm
19 March 2024, 1 - 2聽pm
- Family reunion and refugee integration - Andrea Verdasco
26 March 2024, 1:15 - 2:15 pm
- Storying later life: Key concepts in a narrative perspective on ageing - William Randall
23 April 2024, 1:15聽- 2:15 pm
- Mothers doing friendship in a hostile environment - Rachel Benchekroun
30 April 2024, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
23 May 2024, 2:00 鈥�3:30 pm
- Film screening: Bhashaili (Adrift), 2024 - Humera Iqbal
28 May 2024,聽1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
笔谤辞驳谤补尘尘别听2022鈥�23
14 September, 12 - 1pm
- The geek as gatekeeper? Changing relations between gender, race and technology - Maria Berge (Ume氓 University), Andreas Ottemo (Gothenburg University), Heather Mendick (London), Eva Silfver (Ume氓 University)
3 October, 1 - 2pm
- Promoting sustainable livelihoods: unpacking empowerment with young migrants in Ghana -聽Dr Grace Spencer (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Jill Thompson (University of Sheffield).
4 October, 1 - 2pm
- Heading home: Fantasies and injuries of motherhood and work - Shani Orgad (London School of Economics)
1 November, 1 - 2pm聽
- Listening for migrant justice: The London Permanent Peoples鈥� tribunal 鈥淭he Hostile Environment on Trial" - Leah Bassel (University of Roehampton)
29 November, 1 - 2pm
- Parents鈥� dual reconciliation of gainful employment and childcare: Empirical evidence from Austria - Gerlinde Mauerer 聽(University of Vienna)
6 December, 1 - 2pm
- Maternal health and care proceedings: A mixed-methods approach -聽Claire Grant (果冻影院, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care and Thomas Coram Research Centre)
17 January 2023, 1 - 2pm
- The complexity of evaluating social care interventions using administrative data - Emily Ashford, Rocio Mendez Pineda and David Sanders-Ellis
31 January 2023, 1 - 2pm
- The Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study - Alissa Goodman
10 May 2023,聽12 - 2pm
23 May聽2023, 1 - 2pm
- Promoting sustainable livelihoods - Grace Spencer and Jill Thompson
30th May聽2023, 1 - 2pm
- Too fertile, not fertile enough? -聽Esm茅e Hanna
6 June 2023, 1- 2pm
Previous seminars
2021-22
- Autumn term
5聽October 2021
- Racism, mental health and young people of colour - Tuuli Kurki聽(University of Helsinki, Finland)
19 October 2021
- Comfortably anxious: Attitudes of the top 10% of income earners towards inequality and redistribution -聽Marcos Gonzales Hernando (Social Research Institute, IOE)
2 November 2021
- Interviewing child witnesses: What we already know and what we still need to know -聽Ching-Yu Huang (University of Keele)
30 November 2021
- HIV science and gay fatherhood: Translating medical advances into policy and practice - Robert Pralat聽(University of Cambridge)
- Spring term
18 January 2022
- Cannabis law reform in the 1960s - Professor Toby Seddon (IOE)
1 February 2022
- Mutual aid disaster relief: consciousness-raising and radical pedagogy beyond social capital - Dr Rhiannon Firth (IOE)
15 March 2022
- Donor conceived young adults - Drs Sophie Zadeh and Kitty Jones (果冻影院)
- Summer term
26 April 2022
- Negotiations of food, respectability and gender. Discourses and food practices among women in disadvantaged conditions - Dr Kia Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen)
3 May 2022
- Narrative imagination, agency, and the pandemic moment - Professor Molly Andrews (IOE)
17 May 2022
- Are vegan bad parents? The controversy over child veganism in Switzerland -聽Dr Edm茅e Ballif (University of Lausanne)
31 May 2022
- Donor conceived young adults -聽Drs Sophie Zadeh and Kitty Jones (果冻影院)
7 June 2022
- Parenting leave in international perspective: The dynamics of culture and policy - Professor Alison Koslowski (IOE)
2018 - 2021
- 2020鈥�21
Autumn term聽2020鈥�21
6 October 2020
- Structural racism, redlining, and preterm birth in New York City - Dr Mary Huynh (NYC Health Department)
20 October 2020
- 'It's not a prison': a critical (anti-racist) analysis of the increasing presence of police in schools聽- Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury (University of Manchester)
27 October 2020
- Boundaries of love: Black-White couples in Brazil and the United States - Dr Chinyere Osuji Rutgers (University-Camden)
24 November 2020
- Reflections on the role of racial capitalism (and racial patriarchy) in understanding the Swedish labour market - Professor Anders Neergaard聽(Link枚ping University)
1 December 2020
- Black mothers鈥� lives: Intersectional analyses of/approaches to parenting culture - Dr Patricia Hamilton (IOE)
15 December 2020
- Foundling Hospital archives and the lives of black and minority ethnic children - Carol Harris,聽Coram children's charity (formerly the The Foundling Hospital) and Janette Bright, the Foundling Museum
Spring term聽2020鈥�21
19 January聽2021
- Joining the dots: food, family and migration research -聽Dr Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic (Syracuse University)
16 February 2021
- Supporting families and children beyond COVID-19 -聽Dominic Richardson (UNICEF)
23 February 2021
- Accelerated childhoods and the case for slow pedagogies -聽Alison Clark (IOE)
2 March 2021
- Couples balancing work, money and care: exploring the shifting landscape under Universal Credit -聽Jane Millar聽and Rita Griffith (Institute for Policy Research, the University of Bath)
16聽March 2021
- Cancelled:听Belonging under the fluid conditions of contemporary modernity - Daniella Shaw (University of Surrey)
23聽March 2021
- The value of collaboration between researchers of poverty and low income during COVID聽-聽Kayleigh Garthwaite (University of Birmingham),聽Fiona McHardy (The聽Poverty Alliance)聽and聽Anna Tarrant (University of Lincoln)
Summer term聽2020鈥�21
4 May 2021
- Why should we bother with neoliberalism when we have to learn how to teach children? -聽Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes and Professor Peter Moss (IOE)
25 May 2021
- This event has been postponed until Autumn, date to be confirmed: Racism, mental health and young people of colour -聽Dr Tuuli Kurki (University of Helsinki)
1 June 2021
- Deporting Black Britons portraits of deportation to Jamaica聽-聽Dr Luke de Noronha (果冻影院 Institute for Advanced Studies).
- 2019鈥�20
Autumn term聽2019鈥�20
1 October 2019
- Stories of sameness and difference: The views, experiences and outcomes of children and adolescents with a trans or gender non-conforming parent - Sophie Zadeh and Susan Imrie (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)
8 October 2019
- No seminar
15 October 2019
- Understanding recurrent care proceedings: Fathers, mothers and family relationships聽-聽Dr Georgia Philip (University of East Anglia)
22 October 2019
- Children鈥檚 reasoning about peer rejection and school discrimination: Evidence from Denmark, Saudi Arabia, and the UK - Dr Harriet Tenenbaum (University of Surrey)
29 October 2019
- What else does researching with Haraway鈥檚 successor science make possible in childhood studies? - Professor Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University)
5 November 2019
- No seminar
12 November 2019
- No seminar
19 November 2019
- The Looked-after Children Grown up Project: Early findings on health and social outcomes in adulthood聽- Professor Amanda Sacker (果冻影院).
Spring term 2019鈥�20
28 January 2020
- The coloniality of distinction: class, race and whiteness among post-crisis Italian migrants - Simone Varriale (University of Lincoln)
4 February 2020
- Brexit and family life -聽Katherine Davies聽(University of Sheffield)
25 February 2020
- Plastics and childhood聽-聽Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham)
17 March 2020
- The Ideal Woman: Female Evangelical Influencers and Social Media Stars -聽Katie Gaddini, (IOE)
24 March 2020
- Couples balancing work, money and care: exploring the shifting landscape under Universal Credit聽-聽Jane Miller and Rita Griffith (University of Bath).
- 2018鈥�19
Autumn term聽2018鈥�19
2 October 2018
- Screening if the film 'Cc脿semo, here we are. Lives on hold in Lampedusa' -聽Dr聽Michela Franceschelli聽(IOE)
16 October 2018
- Visionary women 鈥� their work for children and childhood, England, 1900-1920 -聽Professor聽Berry Mayall聽(IOE)
23 October 2018
- Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming 鈥榓dult鈥� in the UK and beyond聽-聽Dr聽Elaine Chase聽(IOE)
30 October 2018
- The ethics of research with children over time and place: reflections from young lives聽-聽Dr聽Ginny Morrow聽(IOE)
20聽November 2018
- The efficacy and suitability of social isolation and loneliness interventions for older Black and Minority Ethnic individuals living in the UK -聽Brenda Hayanga聽(IOE)
27聽November 2018
- In search of 鈥榮tability:听working-class men, masculinity and wellbeing in post-Soviet Russia' -聽Dr Charlie Walker (University of Southampton)
4 December 2018
- Intimate strangers? Working with intercultural couples聽-聽Dr Renee Singh聽(Intercultural Couples Centre).
Spring term聽2018鈥�19
15 January 2019
- Understanding and responding to perpetrators of sexual abuse: Perceptions, Prevention, Management and Desistence聽-聽Professor Kieran McCartan (UWE Bristol)
22 January 2019
- Sisters are doing it for themselves: Single Women鈥檚 Fertility Options and Reproductive Agency聽- Dr Zeynep Gurtin (果冻影院 Womens Health)
29 January 2019
- Leave or remain? EU families in Brexiting Britain聽- Dr Nando Sigona (Birmingham University)
19 February 2019
- What difference does money make to young people鈥檚 experiences of school meals?聽-聽PhD Laura Hamilton (TCRU)
26 February 2019
- Hannah Arendt鈥檚 concept of 鈥減arental responsibility鈥� and the rights of queer children and children of queer parents聽- Dr Francesca Ammaturo (Roehampton)
5 March 2019
- Cultural heritage, cultural wellbeing: The psychosocial impact of cultural interventions with marginalised audiences聽- Professor Helen Chatterjee (果冻影院)
19 March 2019
- 鈥楻eactive鈥� or 鈥榩rotective鈥� transnationalism - Dr Victoria Redclift (果冻影院).
Summer term聽2018鈥�19
23 April 2019
- Who are the humans behind the human rights cases? Migration cases from Russia to the European Court of Human Rights - Dr Agnieszka Kubal (TCRU, IOE)
14 May 2019
- 2,000 families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of-migration study.聽Ayse Guveli (University of Essex)
21 May 2019
- Professionalising early childhood education and care: workforce equity issues in the European context -聽Pamela Oberhuemer (IOE)
11 June 2019
- The cultural politics of household sustainability: environmental sustainability research with Somali immigrants in Manchester.聽Catherine Walker, Sherilyn MacGregor, and Tally Katz-Gerro (University of Manchester)
18 June 2019
- Stories of sameness and difference: the views, experiences and outcomes of children and adolescents with a trans or gender non-conforming parent.聽Sophie Zadeh and Susan Imrie (University of Cambridge)
25 June 2019
- Perpetual service innovation without evaluation: challenges to understanding what works for children exposed to domestic violence and abuse. Emma Howarth (University of Cambridge).
- 2017鈥�18
Spring term聽2017鈥�18
9 January 2018
- Subjectivity and care in the context of "forced marriage"' -聽Dr Perveez Mody (Cambridge University)
23 January 2018
- Exploring longitudinal care histories for looked after children using administrative social care data' -聽Louise McGrath-Lone (果冻影院)
30 January 2018
- Researching everyone in general practice: IRIS+ domestic violence training and support intervention for general practice clinicians - early findings from a feasibility study -聽Dr Eszter Szilassy (Bristol University)
20 February 2018
- Couple-Level Minority Stress and Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples聽-聽Professor Allen LeBlanc (San Francisco State University)
27 February 2018
- A liberated woman, a virtuous wife and good mother to an intensive and full-time mother: Chinese women's recount of their motherhood across three generations' -聽Xin Guo (IOE)
6 March 2018
- Ethnography of the courtroom - immigration law cases in Russia -聽Dr Agnieszka Kubal (IOE)
20 March 2018
- Working-class men in contemporary Russia: inhabiting a 'failed' masculinity -聽Dr Charlie Walker (Southampton University).