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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.

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.

Seminar Monday 17th June 2024:
Reconceptualising Resilience – An International Perspective

In this seminar, which will also be available to join online, Professor Lisa McDaid, Dr Laurel Johnson and Dr Stephanie Wyeth from The University of Queensland will discuss ways of operationalising and implementing resilience science. Drawing on evidence from Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Canada, their work seeks to re-think resilience to improve child, youth, family, and community wellbeing within a bio-psycho-socioecological (BPSE) framework. The presentation will highlight emerging research and innovations including the need for placed-based community-led practice to support transitions towards more sustained community resilience.

Successful viva: congratulations to Thalia Assan

Congratulations to Thalia Assan for successfully passing her PhD viva with minor corrections: ‘The Politics of Friendship in the Lives of Black Girls and Girls of Colour in Scotland’. Thalia examines the politics of friendship in the lives of Black girls and girls of colour in Scotland. Her work explored the ways that friendship is affected by, contends with, and challenges structural inequalities and power relations.

Professorial Lecture by Professor Nancy Lombard

It is with great pleasure that we share a video of Professor Nancy Lombard’s Professorial Lecture at Glasgow Caledonian University. Titled ‘The Personal is Still Political’, Nancy, who is an Associate Director of CRFR, explores her career of violence against women research through the intersections of gender, class and age. It shows how, through the promotion of gender equality in society, we can help shape and transform approaches to stopping violence against women.

Gender in South Asia And Beyond

This collection of essays celebrates the scholarship of Professor Patricia Jeffery, Professor Emerita in Sociology, University of Edinburgh. For over 40 years, she carried out pioneering research, individually and in partnership with her colleagues on a range of subjects including gender and development, especially childbearing, women’s reproductive rights, social demography in South Asia, gender and communal politics, education and the reproduction of inequality; race and ethnicity.

Navigating Cultural Intimacies

How and why do friendships last across cultural differences? In this in-person talk on Weds 13 March 2024, Dr Shruti Chaudhry explores decades-long friendships amongst older adults of South-Asian heritage in Scotland.

Fatherhood and changing masculinities in China

Fatherhood and changing masculinities in China: a fireside chat, on Mon 26 Feb 2024, with Xiangxian Wang, Professor in Sociology at the University of Shandong. Xiangxian Wang will discuss social change in fathers’ involvement in parenting in China.

Co-operative childcare in Derg-era Ethiopia

The Centre for African Studies and CRFR  welcome the anthropologist Dr Sarah Howard, Anthropologist and Researcher from Birkbeck, University of London for an in-person event on Weds 14th Feb. Dr Howard will share her research on  Co-operative childcare in Derg-era Ethiopia.

Webinar – Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill

At 2pm, by Zoom on Thursday 25th May, join Dr Frank Mugisha of Sexual Minorities Uganda for a webinar ‘Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill’. With Chair/Discussant Matthew Waites (Reader in Sociology, University of Glasgow).

Mothers living with domestic abuse in Scotland – a tale of poverty and social inequality

CRFR are pleased to publish Briefing No 94, which explores mothers’ experiences of domestic abuse and its relationship to poverty and social inequality. Using data from the Growing Up in Scotland study, this project examines age, socio-economic status and level of education to illustrate how multiple dimensions of poverty overlap and interlock with experiences of domestic abuse.

Impact of covid-19 on care home relatives – first findings

A team of researchers has been investigating the impact of covid-19 on families with relatives in care homes. The ‘impact of covid on care home relatives’ project is led by George Palattiyil Senior Lecturer of Social Work, School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and is funded by the Chief Scientist Office.

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Nelson

CRFR are delighted that Dr Sarah Nelson, Research Associate at CRFR, has been awarded an OBE for her longstanding work on behalf of survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Sarah has conducted research and used it to advocate for survivors over many decades.

Couples’ geography and network overlap: spatial mobility skills and conjugal quality

This research aims to study how couple satisfaction is related to the network and geography of couples in a motility approach. Family migration and physical distance with family and friends may cause strains on the relationship and can sometimes lead to union dissatisfaction and dissolution. Many studies have focused on women’s employment,