sessions

Sessions (may be subject to change)

Day 1 - Wednesday 16 June

Speaker
Lynn Jamieson, Co-Director, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships

Paper Session 1: 2.30pm – 4.30pm

A) Paid work and family care
Fluid employment and fluid families? Female nurses negotiating time and space
for care and work
JaneMaree Maher, Monash University, Australia
Money talks. A discursive exploration of working parents accounts
of parental leave and employment
Gemma Yarwood, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Can families be re-gendered?: Nurses, builders and their families managing work and care in Australia
Jo Lindsay, Monash University, Australia
Does work-family conflict hurt the organisation? An examination of cross-field effect
Jiafung Lu, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

B) Changing patterns of family formation
The effect of employment insecurity and unemployment on family formation in Hungary
Ivett Szalma, University of Budapest, Hungary
Postponing parenthood in Central and Eastern Europe (case of the Czech Republic)
Hana Haskova, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Transnational families: patterns of partnering and childbearing
Kim Caarls, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Are old mums the new mums?
Paul Bradshaw and Louise Marryat, National Centre for Social Research,
United Kingdom

C) The family/policy interface
Use of childcare and early education by families in England: trends of the last decade
Svetlana Speight, National Centre for Social Research, United Kingdom
Mutuality in Scottish and Australian healthcare policy: implications for notions
of the family
Jessica Gunson, Centre for Research on Families & Relationships, University of Edinburgh, UK
The socio-economic security of the family life: socio-economic problems
of families with children with special needs
Jolanta Millere, Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia
Factors influencing childcare in Selangor, Malaysia: a qualitative approach
among the mothers
Rosnah Sutan, University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia

D) Grandparents and intergenerational relationships
Grandparents doing gender: Experiences of grandmothers and grandfathers caring
for grandchildren in Australia
Briony Horsfall, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Intergenerational Family Relations and the Transition to Parenthood from a Cross-cultural perspective
Katharine Ulbrich, Dresden Leibniz Graduate School, Germany
Relationships with grandparents from the perspective of adolescents: Its nature and significance
Jo-Pei Tan, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
“Invisible” grandparents of transnational families: Experiences of Chinese elderly caregivers in Canada and policy considerations
Rachel Zhou, McMaster University, Canada

E) Meaning and experiences of motherhood and mothering
Mothering at middle age: lacking in familial support?
Maud Perrier, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Negotiating diversity within the “Culture of Motherhood”
Fiona Nelson, University of Calgary, Canada
Intraclass stratification in Mothering: a comparative study of middle-class
storytelling mothers in Taiwan
Juhan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Trying to do more with less? The mothering experiences of middle income mothers
in North America
Shelley Pacholok, The University of British Columbia – Okanagan, Canada

F) Diverse forms of marriage
Continuing consequences of a constraining institution of marriage
Carrie Yodanis, University of British Columbia, Canada
Forced marriage in the UK: Prevalence and Response
Peter Keogh, National Centre for Social Research, United Kingdom
Changing Marriage in the South Asian Immigrant Community
Farha Ternikar, Le Moyne College, United States of America
Transforming polygamy: migration, transnationalism and multiple
marriages among Muslim minorities
Katharine Charsley, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
and Anika Liversage, SFI - the Danish National Centre for Social Research

G) Constructions of relatedness in different reproductive contexts
Secrecy versus disclosure within families created by gamete donation: effects
of parent psychological well-being, parent-child relationships and children’s psychological well-being
Lucy Blake, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Surrogacy, gay male couples and the significance of biogenetic paternity
Deborah Dempsey, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Risk, trust and sperm donations: New ways of becoming and being family
in lesbian couples’ reproductive practices of self-arranging donor conception
Petra Nordqvist, Univeristy of Manchester, United Kingdom

H) Place, family and identity
Exploring the cultural landscapes of transnational families
John Watters, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
The family and home between cultures, space and time
Maki Kimura, Open University, United Kingdom
“Where are you really from?” Identity and belongings issues amongst children and young people growing up in rural communities
Philomena de Lima, Highlands and Islands University, United Kingdom

Workshop:
Lived experiences through economic downturn in Britain: perspectives across time and across the lifecourse
Rosalind Edwards, Sarah Irwin, Rachel Thomson, Joanna Bornatt, London South
Bank University, Jeni Harden, Edinburgh Napier University, Nick Emmel,
Leeds University & Karen Henwood, Cardiff University,United Kingdom

Paper Session 2: 5.00pm – 6.30pm

A) Transforming relationships: friends, family and leisure
Changing lifestyles, changing times: A view of 9-yearold’s leisure activities and their impact on family interaction
Erika Doyle, University of Dublin, Ireland
Transforming intergenerational relations through new technologies: Grandparents and their relationships with grandchildren
Anna Tarrant, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Friends with real benefits: sex and solidarity among men who have sex with men
Jennifer Wilkinson, University of Sydney, Australia

B) Migration and families ‘left behind’
When women make houses: fathering in the context of transnational
labour migration
Lan Anh Hoang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Transnational families: the care triangle and the well-being of left-behind
children in South East Asia
Elspeth Graham, St Andrews University, United Kingdom
Female Migration and The Vietnamese Family in Transition
Thao Thi Vu, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

C) Experiences of being single
Missing the marriage transition: experiences of Malay Muslim women in Malaysia
Rozita Ibrahim, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia
Single voices: understanding singledom in a cross-cultural comparison between
Italy and Britain
Serena Rapisarda, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

D) Growing old and elder care
Caregiving for elderly parents: family system perspectives in context of Thai culture
Poonsuk Wachwithan, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand
Investigating familial, intimate and personal networks of lesbian, gay and
bisexual elders towards the end of life
Kathryn Almack, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

E) Young people and non-familial support
The right person at the right time: Advocacy for children and young people
Susan Elsley, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships,
University of Edinburgh, UK
Enabling effective parenting through the longitudinal measurement of the perceived
social support of adolescents
Cormac Forkan, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Without family support: Young people’s reasons for homelessness and how they manage their relationships and health access
Dorothy Henning, University of Melbourne, Australia

F) Having children: longitudinal and lifecourse perspectives
15 to 30 (and beyond): an analysis of family formation and first birth
using the Scottish Longitudinal Study
Kevin Ralston, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Changing lives, changing families: A lifecourse approach to understanding childbearing decision-making in Scotland
Zhong Eric Chen, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Maternal employment and idealised motherhood: Young women's attitudes
towards career continuation after having children
Linda Peach, University of Queensland, Australia

Workshop Session:
Ways of coping with challenges affecting families in resource poor-settings
Bregje De Kok & Oonagh O’Brien, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and
Esther Lupafya, Malawi

Day 2 - Thursday 17 June

Keynote Speakers

Paper Session 3: 11am – 1pm

A) The experience of transnational families
Transnational migrant mothers and children negotiating change and continuity
Umut Erel, The Open University, United Kingdom
The life of transnational families in Romanian villages
Viroela Ducu, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Multilocal families: the accomplishment of daily family life under conditions
of multilocality
Michaela Schier, German Youth Institute
The central role of the family system in a sustainable nested
environmental ecology
Edward T Wimberley, Florida Gulf Coast University, United States of America

B) Young people and family change
Young people’s perceptions of families and experiences of family structure
change in the 21st century
Andy Rigg, Statistics New Zealand, New Zealand
Family instability and children’s school readiness in Great Britain
Paula Fomby, University of Colorado Denver, United States of America
Social positioning of women, changes in the outer world and educational opportunities for girls in rural India
Pranati Mohanraj, The University of York, United Kingdom
Young peoples’ outcomes and intergenerational effects
Susan Murray, University of Stirling, United Kingdom

C) Dynamics of family change
New family designs in response to a changing world? The case of gay and lesbian “co-parenting”
Cathy Herbrand, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Women changing the family relationships in Indian Panchayats
Hiranmayee Mishra, University of York, United Kingdom
Parenting behaviour and child adjustment among ethnically mixed and ethnically matched families in Malaysia
Jo-Pei Tan, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Analysing parents’ migration projects through their children’s positions
Tatiana Eremenko, Insitut National d’Etudes Demographiques, France

D) Violence and victimisation
Control, avoidance or release: How childhoods of sexually abused men impacted
on relationships with partners and children
Sarah Nelson, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, UK
Young people and violence: using age as a concept to construct ‘real’ violence
Nancy Lombard, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Victimization of Older Adults in Western Countries: Impacts of Aging and Entho-culturally Diversity
Christine Walsh, University of Calgary, Canada

E) Gender, parenting and families
Men at work (at home): caregiving fathers and family change
Gillian Ranson, University of Calgary, Canada
Work-family balance: The changes in gender role attitudes in Luxembourg
Maria Valentova, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg
Changing care in Slovenia: gender, parenting and family
Ziva Humer, Peace Institute, Slovenia & Alenka Svab, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
‘Filial Son’ and Chinese Male Migrant Workers’ Identity Formation
Xiaodong Lin, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

F) Marriage, partnering and intimate relationships
Same-sex marriage in Canada: five years later
Hilary Rose, Concordia University, Canada
Between “me” or “we”: consuming “detraditionalized” weddings in Hong Kong
Ho Yee Vienne Tso, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Language as a power resource in immigrant intimate relationships
Sean Lauer, University of British Columbia, Canada
I’d rather it be more acceptable to be a normal family: the re-traditionalization
of family-life
Julia Carter, University of York, United Kingdom

G) Place, family and identity: the experience of migration
My home in where my husband is: Chinese wives’ attitude towards
migration and family
Wenchao Wei, University of York, United Kingdom
The family remembered as an exercise in subjectivity: migrant South Asian
doctors reflect on the influence of their families of origin
Joanne Bornat, Open University, United Kingdom
Family-related considerations of the remigration decision
of 'new' Polish migrants to the UK.
Sue Heath, Derek McGhee & Paulina Trevena, Centre for Population Change,
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Transnational Family Solidarity across three Generations. The Portuguese
Migrants from the Azores to Quebec (Canada)
Ana Gherghel, Universidade dos Acores, Portugal

H) Family change in historical context
Lymansville: 1809-2009, 200 years of Immigration and Textile History
Judith Bessette, Older Sons of Italy in America, United States of America
Did ‘Individualisation’ ever happen? Personal life in 1950
Simon Duncan, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
Historical comparative analysis of family and parenting: A feasibility study
across sources and timeframes
Val Gillies, London South Bank University, United Kingdom
Writing the field: a book on key concepts in family studies
Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Open University, United Kingdom and Rosalind Edwards,
London South Bank University,United Kingdom

Workshop Session:
Challenging relationships? Children and young people’s participation
– cross-country debates
Kay Tisdall, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships,
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Paper Session 4: 2pm – 4pm

A:1) Practice and international adoption
What is good practice for countries involved in International adoption?
Monica Dowling, The Open University, United Kingdom
“Difficult Encounter”: Principles of early family interventions for families
with internationally adopted children
Irene Feigin, Independent, United States of America
The Slovak experiences with transnational adoption
Jana Levicka and Katarina Levicka, University of Trnava, Slovak Republic

A:2) Children, families and dislocation
The Stolen Generations: Accounts of ‘Removed’ Aboriginal Children
and Public History
Jennifer Peet, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

B) Children and the experience of migration
A change of State: Migrant children and imaginative geographies
Giovanna Fassetta, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Children’s accommodation and care arrangements in the context of urban migration
Katharine Hall, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Mexican migration and child poverty: Do extended-household living arrangement
s ameliorate child poverty?
Mark Leach, The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

C) The experiences of young or lone parents
The protective effects of parenting attitudes among young, single mothers
Tania Smith, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Being young and becoming a parent
Sveva Magaraggia, University of Mila-Bicocca, Italy
Multigenerational perspectives of Turkish-Cypriots towards lone parenting
in North Cyprus
Mubeccel Oztabay, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom

D) Networks of care in children's lives
Children’s experiences home alone: results of a Canadian on-line survey
Mónica Ruiz-Casares, McGill University, Canada
Safeguarding children in families and communities within changing risk environments
Sally Holland, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

E) Living and marrying across borders
Leading toward a right trajectory: Taiwanese mothers’ involvement in sons’ cross-border marriage
Hsing Miao Chi, University of York, United Kingdom
A family impact study on cross-boundary living families in Hong Kong
Moses Mui, Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Hong Kong
Families crossing the HK-Mainland China Border: implications to family research
Kin Wai Anthony Wong, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Hong Kong

F) Divorce and Separation
A service response to changes in family structures - the case of an
innovative model of support for separated families in the Republic of Ireland
Noreen Kearns & Liam Coen, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Sharing Surnames: Children, Family and Kinship
Haley Davies, King's College, London

G) The impact of recession on everyday family life
Financial support for families with children in Central and Eastern Europe: differences, similarities, and the impact of recession
Eva Mitchell, Sociological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
Czech Republic
Reaching for “Success” from a place seen as “second best”: perspectives of rural
US families in the new economy
Katherine MacTavish, Oregon State University, United States of America

H) Communication technologies and the shaping of relationships
Communication technologies and the reshaping of the work-family relationship
Emily Rose, Australian National University, Australia
Youth, privacy and parenting in the Internet Age
Zachari Duncalf, Strathclyde University, United Kingdom
“Life on the whole is more complicated than it was….”
Leanne Franklin, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Workshop Session:
Migrant children in Changing Europe
Marta Moskal, Jenny Ozga & Marina Shapira, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Speaker:

Day 3 - Friday 18 June

Keynote Speakers:

Paper Session 5: 9.30am-11.00am

A) The changing nature of fatherhood
Changes in Japanese fatherhood after two decades of recession
Scott North, Osaka University, Japan
Evolving fatherhood: shifting intergenerational dynamics among first-time fathers
in contemporary Ireland
Jemimah Bailey, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

B) Globalisation and patterns of care
Intergenerational support in Dutch and immigrant families in The Netherlands
Djamila Schans, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Global and local care chains in Slovenia
Majda Hrzenjak, Peace Institute, Slovenia
Transnational families and shifts in Eldercare
Sreerupa S Irudaya rajan, Centre for Development Studies, India

C) Young people and the transition to independent households
The role of higher education in promoting non-family living among young adults
in the UK
Ann Berrington & Juliet Stone, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
The role of family and friends in young people’s pathways towards residential independence
Sue Heath & Emma Calvert, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

D) Transnational adoption in historical and contemporary contexts
Orientations of transnational adoption: historical reflections
Cecilia Love, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Transnational adoption challenges: through the eyes of youth from Eastern Europe who are experiencing problems
Sandy Bailey, Montana State University, United States of America
Practices of cultural and ethnic imagination as self-conscious citizenship in Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families
Katrien De Graeve, Ghent University, Belgium

E) Social and economic change and older people
The making of place – the meaning of home for older people
Jean Davison, University of Teesside, United Kingdom
Changing financial landscapes for older people
Carol Brennan, Queen Margaret University, United Kingdom

F) Social policies and fertility change
Will social policy form part of the decision-making process about maternity leave
in the Czech Republic?
Michael Bartosova & Lenka Slepickova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Addressing fertility decline through a reproductive rights framework
Reilly Anne Dempsey, Independent, United Kingdom
Single Subjects: Representations of Autonomy and Agency in discourses on singleness and childlessness
Roona Simpson, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, UK

G) Couple/Partnering Relationships
The development of couples: A relational view on the dynamics of intimate relationships
Caroline Ruiner, University of Augsburg, Germany
Do partnerships last?
Julie Jefferies, Office of National Statistics, United Kingdom

H) Parents and parenting
Tackling anti-social behaviour: do family intervention projects really work?
Vera Schneider, National Centre for Social Research, United Kingdom
Study of parents’ smoking behaviours in the presence of children
Ping-Ling Chen, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
From ‘good’ babies to ‘bad’ mothers: choice, complexity and the burden of interpretation
Kelly Davis, Centre for Research on Families & Relationships, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Workshop Session:
Caring communities: models of supporting Refugees and Asylum seekers
following experiences of torture
Kathleen Van de Vijver, Norma McKinnon and Roy Farquharson,
Medical Foundation Scotland