***Conference Announcement***
CHALLENGES OF VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN
Joint One-Day Conference
9.30 am - 4 pm, Friday 29 September 2000
The Big Issue Conference Centre, College Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
A major one-day conference organised by the University of Glasgow and
Children in Scotland that aims to disseminate recent research findings on
the role that violence plays in the everyday lives of girls and young women
(aged 12-18 years) in the UK.
Despite increasing concern about the violent behaviour of girls and young
women, little is actually known about their attitudes and experiences of
violence. Drawing on recent ESRC funded research, key speakers will discuss
how violence features in the lives of girls and young women across the UK.
In doing so, they will provide information about young women’s pathways
into violence; how they use violence; how they deal with potentially
violent situations; and how they desist from using violence. It is hoped
that the data presented will challenge some of the traditional thinking
about violence and will provide a basis to explore the implications of the
research for policy and practice.
Who Should Attend?
This conference will be of interest to researchers, academics, local
authority elected members, as well as senior policy makers, managers and
practitioners working with children and young people in the following
areas: social work, education, youth work, community education, child
protection, youth justice, probation services and adolescent mental health.
Highlights of the programme will include:
Chair: Professor Betsy Stanko, Director of ESRC Violence Research
Programme, Royal Holloway University of London
Girls Lives in Context - Dr Anne Worrall, Department of Criminology, Keele
University
A View from the Girls: Exploring Violence and Violent Behaviour - Dr
Michèle Burman, Dr Jane Brown, and Susan Batchelor, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, University of Glasgow; Dr Kay Tisdall, Policy and
Research Manager Children in Scotland, Department of Social Policy,
University of Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime - Susan McVie and Dr
Lesley McAra, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh
Physical and Sexual Violence Amongst Children in Residential Settings:
Exploring Girls’ Experiences and Perspectives - Christine Barter, NSPCC,
London
Inter-Group and Inter-Racial Violence - Ian Toon, Vauxhall Centre for the
Study of Crime, University of Luton
The Violence Resilient School: Girls’ Experiences - Institute of Education,
University of London (speaker tbc)
Further information and booking forms can be obtained from:
Steve Jackson, Children in Scotland, 5 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
Tel: 0131 228 8484, Fax: 0131 228 8585. E-mail:
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Booking forms also available at http://www.gla.ac.uk/girlsandviolence/
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