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CHILDREN’S FAMILY TROUBLES? CHANGES AND CHALLENGES THROUGH DIVERSE LENSES
FRIDAY 21ST JUNE, LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
This symposium will consider children’s family lives and ‘troubles’ through diverse lenses, across varied disciplines, cultural contexts, and practice settings.
Speakers include:
Professor Jo Boyden (Director of Young Lives, University of Oxford)
Changing expectations of children and childhood in four developing countries: challenges for intergenerational relations.
Dr Jonathan Dickens and Dr Georgia Philip (School of Social Work, University of East Anglia) Challenging meetings and talking about troubles: families and professionals in statutory meetings about children
Professor David Morgan (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Morgan Centre, University of Manchester) Family troubles, troubling families and family practices
Professor Ann Phoenix (Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London)
Further details on the flyer attached. To register please visit: http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/events/childrens-family-troubles-changes-and-challenges-through-diverse-lenses
Book launch: This symposium follows on from a two day Colloquium held in 2010; a launch of the edited collection from this earlier event, and wine reception, will take place following on from the symposium. http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781447304432
Please feel free to circulate this email further.
Jane McCarthy
Reader in Family Studies
Department of Social Policy and Criminology
Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Tel. 01908 654535
http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/people-profile.php?name=Jane_McCarthy
Understanding Family Meanings: A Reflective Text by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Megan Doolittle and Shelley Day Sclater, 2012, is now published by Policy Press.
An audio linked to the book is available at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/theories-concepts-in-family/id380231496
Key Concepts in Family Studies by Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Rosalind Edwards, 2011, is published by Sage. The Introduction to the book is publicly available at: http://oro.open.ac.uk/23416/1/Intro_final.pdf
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