‘A recipe for better child participation’
Thirty years ago, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was adopted. The UNCRC is the most ratified human rights convention.
Researching LGBT+ Families and Relationships in Africa
I have been working during 2019 as part of a new consortium project, focused on supporting LGBT+ people in five African cities within Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia and Mozambique.
Kindness in court: who cares?
Scotland has an enviable reputation for being a country with a compassionate heart. As a nation, we have been at the forefront of a recent upsurge in understanding of the biological science of the impact of childhood trauma on the developing brain, gaining an awareness of adverse childhood experiences.
Understanding children’s ‘accommodation’ of parental separation and divorce
The opportunity for young people to speak for themselves about their experiences of parental separation is often missing from the research literature. Their participation tends to be based on their parent(s) participation in previous studies, requires parental consent….
Adverse Childhood Experiences: a social justice perspective
In this blog I am going to look at ACEs from a social justice perspective. So, what does social justice mean to me?
Childhood sexual abuse: At the heart of problems with ACEs policy, Part 2
This is the second of a two part post in which Dr Sarah Nelson discusses childhood sexual abuse in the context of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) policy.
Childhood sexual abuse: At the heart of problems with ACEs policy, Part 1
It was the impact of childhood sexual abuse trauma which gave Professor Vincent Felitti and colleagues the first, vital clues to persistent poor health and unhealthy behaviours in adults. It was the trigger to the range of ACE studies they then conducted, and to numerous others….
ACEs – repackaging old problems in shiny new (Emperor’s) clothes
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are defined as stressful events that occur in childhood which are believed to have lifelong impacts on health, wellbeing and health-related behaviours. This blog highlights some (but not all!) limitations with ACEs as a concept and a practice.
Resilience is a process and opportunity, not something children have or don’t have
Studying resilience with children and adults exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) has taken me on a journey that has resulted in a fundamental shift in how I do research, teach and counsel clients. This has been significant in my understanding of adversity, trauma and the profound role of resilience.
ResiliencebyDesign Research Innovation Lab
In this post, we hear about the work of ResiliencebyDesign Research Innovation Lab, an interdisciplinary team of researchers committed to using applied, participatory research with young people.