Dear All,

Ann Phoenix will be talking at the SUMEHR Health and History seminar on
Tuesday 6th May. All are welcome. Please circulate the details,
Enrico
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Black mothers alone? Shifting understandings of lone motherhood
Tuesday 6th May 2008, 17:30 - 20:00
The Women’s Library, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT

Ann Phoenix is Professor and Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit
at the Institute of Education. Her research interests include motherhood
and the social identities of young people (including those of 'race',
ethnicity and gender). Ann recently completed projects on masculinities in
11-14 year old boys (with Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College and Rob Pattman,
Open University) and young people and consumption with Chris Griffin
(Birmingham University) and Rosaleen Croghan (Open University). Ann is
currently working on two projects:

1. Transforming experiences: re-conceptualising identities and ‘non-
normative’ childhoods. This ESRC Professorial Fellowship research programme
addresses how adults from different family backgrounds negotiate their
identities as they re-evaluate their earlier experiences.
2. Identities in process: becoming mothers in Tower Hamlets. This study is
designed to gain insight into how cultural differences work in the forging
of women’s identities as mothers, using a design enabling differences and
similarities to be explored among women from different ethnic, class and
cultural groups.

Ann is the co-author (with Fatima Husain) of the report Parenting and
Ethnicity (JRF 2007), which can be accessed here:
<http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/ebooks/parenting-ethnicity.pdf>

The History and Health Seminars are funded by SUMEHR and chaired by John
Eversley. The series aims to explore contemporary issues in researching
Black and Minority Ethnic Health through historical perspectives. Each
meeting aims to attract a specialist audience familiar with the issue to be
discussed, either historically or today, and a more general audience
interested in contemporary research and action on the health of Black and
Minority Ethnic communities. The seminars are free and open to all.

Best wishes,
Enrico

Support Unit for Minority Ethnic Health Research
NELCRAD Office, 2nd Floor Burdett House
Mile End Hospital
Bancroft Road
London E1 4DG

Tel: 020 8223 8372
Fax: 020 8223 8084
www.nelcrad.nhs.uk