Digital outreach/reaching out digitally: Online sharing in the face of emotional distress
Research Project Health Illness & Wellbeing Digital outreach/reaching out digitally: Online sharing in the face of emotional distress Part of the Scottish Government’s action on preventing stillbirths is to promote awa The web has opened up diverse possibilities for supporting people who are experiencing emotional distress, including those who are describing suicidal thoughts and behaviours. […]
AFFIRM
Research Project Health Illness & Wellbeing AFFIRM Part of the Scottish Government’s action on preventing stillbirths is to promote awareness of fetal movements amongst pregnant women. A new intervention called AFFIRM is combining new clinical guidelines with awareness raising, as a way of identifying women and fetuses who might be at risk of stillbirth. The […]
IMPACT
Research Project Gender and Sexuality IMPACT The IMPACT project aimed to promote sustained participation of children and young people in Equally Safe and promote the use of evidence from young survivors of gender-based violence. We believe Increasing Meaningful Participation will help us Achieve Change Together – adults, children and young people. Claire Houghton alongside 8 […]
Changing international policy on violence affecting children in partnership with UNICEF
Research Project Gender and Sexuality Changing international policy on violence affecting children in partnership with UNICEF Sarah Morton and Debi Fry have been awarded an ESRC Impact Grant to investigate how a large study funded by UNICEF has led to changes in policy in different countries, with a focus on Peru. A partnership between UoE […]
Boys and girls: Transitional constructions of gender-based violence
Research Project Gender and Sexuality Boys and girls: Transitional constructions of gender-based violence This research will be the first investigation into what young people, aged between 5 and 11, think about men’s violence against women. It will locate the construction and understanding of gendered violence in the childhood socialisation process bringing together social psychology, sociology […]
Seminar series on childhood sexual abuse
Research Project Gender and Sexuality Seminar series on childhood sexual abuse CRFR Associate Dr Sarah Nelson presents issues from research and practice, from her new book Tackling Child Sexual Abuse: Radical Approaches*, which offer hope of more effective, imaginative means of protecting children and young people from sexual abuse.These seminars will be particularly useful for […]
Negotiating civilian and military lives – Reserves, families and work
Research Project Institutions and Civic Society Negotiating civilian and military lives: Reserves, families and work Recent policy developments within the United Kingdom (UK) have initiated significant reconfiguration of the Armed Forces. This move to a more flexible resourcing model known as the ‘Whole Force Concept’ will reduce the numbers of full time (Regular) personnel and […]
Digital epiphanies – work family configurations in a digital age
Research Project Institutions and Civic Society Digital epiphanies – work/family configurations in a digital age Digital Epiphanies is looking at the ways in which digital technologies are reshaping our work and family lives. Researchers will be working with 15 households in north-east Scotland, with at least one child under the age of 18. Researchers will […]
Personal networks of young adults in Switzerland: Social capital, educational and work aspirations
Research Project Institutions and Civic Society Personal networks of young adults in Switzerland: Social capital, educational and work aspirations This large project will survey a national cohort of young men, mostly aged 19, in 2020-21 who will participate in a compulsory information session on the Swiss military service. An additional sample of young women living […]
A new page: Libraries, austerity and the shifting boundaries of civil society
Research Project Institutions and Civic Society A new page: Libraries, austerity and the shifting boundaries of civil society A Leverhulme Trust project led by Dr Emma Davidson. This project focuses on public libraries and the things they do in, and for, the neighbourhoods in which they are based. Using case studies in Scotland and England, […]
Exploring Children’s Relationships across Majority and Minority Worlds
Research Project Theme: Childhood and Youth Exploring Children’s Relationships across Majority and Minority Worlds The seminar series brought together leading research on children’s relationships, to foster debate, challenge and dialogue across Majority and Minority world* contexts. It had a distinctly interdisciplinary agenda, bringing together theoretical developments and research in Childhood Studies with concepts of intimacy […]
Childhoods, networks and dispersed intimacies: a creative ethnography of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon
Research Project Theme: Childhood and Youth Childhoods, networks and dispersed intimacies: a creative ethnography of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon Lebanon currently hosts nearly 1.5 million Syrian refugees, with 53% being children under 18. Because of the protracted nature of the war, childhood years are now lived almost entirely in the vulnerabilities of forced displacement, […]