What is care? And what does it look like? Co-creating the ‘Images of Care’ exhibition.
When you hear the word “care,” what images come to mind? Read more about a brilliant exhibition, ‘Images of Care’, which was developed out of extensive participatory research with the desire to show a more balanced view of care in later life.
“It’s all human stories” – Teachers’ Relational Agency to Accommodate Migrant Students in Scotland, Finland and Sweden
The Teaching That Matters for Migrant Students (TEAMS) Project aimed to uncover how teachers make use of relational agency in supporting migrant students in Scotland, Finland, and Sweden. Read Cecilia Gialdini, the projects Postdoc Fellow, on the projects findings.
Reconceptualising Resilience – A CRFR Seminar
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
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.
Launch of Children and Society Special issue – Conceptualising and Researching Child and Youth Activism
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new Children & Society special issue, ‘Conceptualising and Researching Child and Youth Activism’. Co-edited by colleagues at the Children and Young People Thematic Hub
Welcome to our newest CRFR Associate Directors
Welcome to our newest CRFR Associate Directors, Fiona McQueen and Guanyu Jason Ran, who introduce themselves and provide information on their research interests.
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
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.