Centre for Research on Families and Relationships

How Streamers and Viewers Offer Support and Care on Twitch

The rise of live streaming platforms creates new ways for people to connect with one another, and for the provision of support and care that is completely mediated by technology.

Read more on Eva Duncanson’s research, which looks at the relationships between streamers and their viewers on the platform Twitch.

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’.

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.

NETREP Project Update

by Liliana A. Arias-Urueña
Have you thought about having (or not having) children or starting a family? This is the question we discussed with 55 participants interviewed in Scotland, Finland and Portugal in our ongoing research project.

Shruti Chaudhry: CRFR’s new director

Shruti Chaudhry is Chancellor’s Fellow in sociology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD at Edinburgh sociology. Before arriving at Edinburgh, she worked in the field of gender and development in India.

Opportunities for connection and support around self-managed abortion

by Purcell, Newton, Bloomer, Oluseye and Hoggart
Abortion provision in the United Kingdom has undergone significant changes in recent years. 2018 saw permissions in Britain for home use of the second of two medications used in early medication abortion (EMA). And, in 2019, abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland.