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Apols for cross-posting ***Registration open*** Understanding the Young Sexual Body Symposium Exploring young sexualities: research-practice entanglements Date: 24th April 2015 10am-5.30pm Venue: The Open University London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, Camden, London NW1 8NP The Open University is pleased to invite you to a follow-up event to the successful ESRC funded seminar series on Understanding the Young Sexual Body. This symposium will embrace the overall aim of the series: to develop partnerships and creative dialogue, between leading academics and practitioners concerned with young people's sexual health. The one day event will focus on how research is influenced - complicated and enhanced - by practice, and how practice is influenced by research. We will be organising a number of panels, uniting practitioners and academics, to introduce topics for discussion. An interactive debate will follow the panel discussions. Our confirmed presenters are - · Ruth Beni (award-winning film-maker of Two Little Girls http://www.twolittlegirls.org and A Dangerous Journey http://vimeo.com/95721191 will show her two latest animated films: on Forced Marriage, and FGM. · Keira Pratt-Boyden (University College London) and Kirrily Pells(Policy officer on the young lives study at the University of Oxford): Female Genital Cutting and Social Media Campaigns · Alma Reisel (Social Worker, Hackney) Professional Discourses of Choice in Cases of Child Sexual Exploitation. This paper draws on new research findings to trace how professional perceptions of consent are refracted through conceptions of age, gender and power. · Geraldine Brady (Coventry University) with speaker from Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre The meaning of sexual consent in the lives of young people · Maddie Blackburn (The Open University): The sexuality of young adults with life-limited conditions, 16+: Implications for research, policy and practice. · Dan Baker (METRO Centre, Greenwich, and the University of Greenwich) Digital Bodies and Sexualities On-line: exploring data from the Youth Chances Project · Kate Sapin (Manchester University) and Rachel Williams (LGBT Youth North West): Youth Work in Schools to Raise Awareness of LGBT Lives · Eleanor Formby (Sheffield Hallam University): Questioning inevitability and critiquing anti-bullying perspectives: Implications for practice regarding homophobic, biphobic and transphobic 'bullying' · Alice Hoyle (Advisory Teacher of SRE, Bath) Research into practice- modelling the systems for challenging homophobia. Re-imagining consent A final session will be facilitated by Meg John Barker (The Open University) and Justin Hancock (BishUK), who will reflect on the issues discussed during the day and initiate a discussion on consent. Symposium Audience: This symposium will appeal to practitioners and academics of both the health and the education practitioner sector. Education policy and practitioner participants would primarily be people engaged with SRE/PSHE and working in an educational setting or with young people (e.g. youth centre). Health policy and practitioner audience will have an interest in sexual health (broadly defined), and in the implications of research on young sexualities for policy and practice. Please click on the link below to register http://www.open.ac.uk/health-and-social-care/main/research/research-events/research-project-and-group-events/understanding-young-sexual-body-symposium This event will run between 10am - 5.30pm, and will include lunch and refreshments. The cost to attend is £40. For any enquiries or further information regarding Understanding the young sexual body symposium, please contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.