Centre for Research on Families and Relationships

Asian!MacAsian! – Podcast

We are delighted to bring you news of a new podcast from Dr Guanyu Jason Ran (Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier, CRFR Associate Director) and Zijing Echo Wan.

How is the value of co-producing research understood?

Helen Berry began her doctoral research just over a year ago, exploring the co-production of research. But her journey through the subject matter began before that.

Read more on the challenges of defining co-produced research, what we know of its outcomes, and how Helen’s project is expected to add to collective efforts in troubling reductive framings of research ‘impact’.

CRFR Network Reception

CRFR network reception for postgraduates, early career researchers and interested staff

Patriarchy Transformed?

Official figures suggest that there were 295 million rural-to-urban migrants in China in 2021. Among them 63% were male. Join Prof. Susanne Choi to discuss the effect of this migration on family and gender relationships in China, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities.

CRFR Co-directors Win NCRM 20th Anniversary Impact Prize

We are delighted to announce that CRFR co-directors Dr. Emma Davidson and Professor Lynn Jamieson were among the winners of the NCRM 20th Anniversary Impact Prize. Together with their colleagues, Dr. Susie Weller (Oxford University) and Professor Ros Edwards (Southampton University), they received the award for the long-term impact of their work on big qualitative data analysis. The team pioneered a new breadth-and-depth method for analysing large volumes of qualitative data.

Reconceptualising Resilience – A CRFR Seminar

by Emma Davidson and Maddi Bunker
At our final seminar last term, CRFR had the pleasure of welcoming our Associate Director, Lisa McDaid, and her colleague Stephanie Wyeth, from the University of Queensland to reflect and reconceptualise ‘resilience’. In this blog, CRFR Co-Director Emma Davidson, and CRFR PhD Student Maddi Bunker, offer there insights from the day.