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FAMILIES, RELATIONSHIPS
& SOCIETIES
An international journal
of research and debate
THE CONSORTIUM
CRFR is supported by:
University of Aberdeen
University of Dundee
The University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
Glasgow Caledonian University
University of the Highlands and Islands
University of West of Scotland
University of Stirling
University of Queensland
Edinburgh Napier University




Sarah Nelson
CRFR are very sad to announce the death of Dr Sarah Nelson on the 29th March, a longstanding associate of CRFR at the universities of Edinburgh and Dundee, and an honorary fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and Social Work at the University of Dundee.
CRFR PhD Network Event: Making Marriage and Coupledom – Imaginaries and Lived Realities
In this event, we welcome four researchers from our CRFR network at advanced stages of their doctoral research to deliver a series of presentations that attend to how dominant cultural norms impinge upon various forms of coupledom.
Youth Researchers Group
Are you involved in youth research? Join our new interdisciplinary group to connect, share ideas, and explore diverse methods and perspectives in youth studies.
Friendships as a lever of social change?
In this lecture, Lynn Jamieson will consider whether the social research evidence suggests hope concerning friendships’ impacts on uncertain futures and point to how important it is for social scientists to systematically attend to friendships as both lived realities and ideals in the imagination.
Focus on Family Estrangement: A Policy Predicament
This seminar will focus on the policy challenges that are faced by people who are estranged and explore how a lack of family capital can cause real-time disadvantage in the areas of Higher Education and Mental Health.
Intimacy as a lens in work and migration–Experiences of ethnic performers in Southwest China
Jingyu Mao, author of ‘Intimacy as a Lens in Work and Migration’, along with a guest panel, will discuss her recent book, which demonstrates how rural/urban, ethnic, and gendered inequalities structure certain kinds of service work and migration trajectories, and how they are experienced through the intimate and emotional experiences of workers themselves.
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Family Estrangement and the Evolution of Social Policies to Recognise It
How is the value of co-producing research understood?
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