TCRU seminar series

3 October 2024, 12–1 pm

• An overlooked force – Dr Katie Gaddini (TCRU)

10 October 2024, 12–1 pm

• Reproducing queer subjects in UK biosocial birth cohort research – Taylor Riley (UCL)

17 October 2024, 12–1 pm

• Contextualising the early childhood workforce – Pamela Oberhuemer (TCRU)

24 October 2024, 12–1 pm

• Examining access to mental health services for social work-experienced young people – Robbie Duschinsky and Julia Mannes (University of Cambridge)

31 October 2024, 12–1 pm

• Locating the good life: Paradoxes of migration in Tajikistan – Elena Borisova (University of Sussex)

14 November 2024, 12–1 pm

• Factors shaping the divergent post-work lives of global factory workers – Sandya Hewamanne

21 November 2024, 12–1 pm

• Co-locating advice and routine health appointments: Healthier wealthier families in East London – Claire Cameron (TCRU)

28 November, 12–1 pm

• The role of expert witnesses in asylum-seeking cases – Dr Igor Cherstich (TCRU) and Dr Elena Consiglio (University of Palermo)

5 December 2024, 12–1 pm

• The WELLBEING study: Working with social care on mental health interventions – Ruth McGovern

12 December 2024, 12–1 pm

• Contemplating friendship in times of strangership – Ammara Maqsood

16 January 2025, 12–1 pm

• Difficult subjects: A reflection on ethics in social research – Amir Massoumian

23 January 2025, 12–1 pm

• Memory on the move: How do young people negotiate remembrance under different conditions of mobility – Malte Gembus

30 January 2025, 12–1 pm

• Tabloids and elections: Who's kidding who? – Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

6 February 2025, 12–1 pm

• Mandatory learning programme: An offer you can’t refuse – Dr Pernille Juhl (Roskilde University)

13 February 2025, 12–1 pm

• NIHR CPRU: Reflections on working with policy colleagues in Department of Health and Social Care – Jenny Woodman (TCRU)

27 February 2025, 12–1 pm

• Hong Kongers, Ukrainians, coloniality of migration and citizenship – Michaela Benson

6 March 2025, 12–1 pm

• Weaving plural collectives in climate activism – Farhan Samanani

13 March 2025, 12–1 pm

• Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, citizenship and urban governance – Dr Rachel Humphris (Queen Mary University)

20 March 2025, 12–1 pm

• Afghan resettlement in England: Emerging findings – Caroline Oliver, Mohammad Mustafa Raheal, Mursal Rasa

27 March 2025, 12–1 pm

• Living on credit: Women’s care work and economic vulnerability in Brazil’s credit society – Marie Kolling

3 April 2025, 12–1 pm

• Physical punishment and child outcomes in the UK (PACO): A mixed methods study – Katie Hollingworth (UCL)

21 November 2023, 1–2 pm

• Co-creating a father-inclusive practice and policy ecosystem – Anna Tarrant (University of Lincoln)

28 November 2023, 1–2 pm

• Uncertain futures: Finding solutions to inequality through art and research – Elaine Dewhurst (University of Manchester)

09 January 2024, 1–2 pm

• Are you sitting uncomfortably? Researching ‘Islamophilia’ and queerness as a queer Islamophile – Jonathan Galton (TCRU)

23 January 2024, 1–2 pm

• Seventy thousand secrets: Sufi esoterism and revolutionary politics in Libya – Igor Cherstich

06 February 2024, 1–2 pm

• Bringing up children: Inequalities of access to early years care and education – Deniz Arzuk

20 February 2024, 1–2 pm

• Reception of oocytes from partner (ROPA): Exploring a pathway to motherhood of lesbians in China – Xuerui Hu
• Discursive constructions of forced marriage: How forced marriage is understood in school communities – Lottie Howard-Merrill

27 February 2024, 1–2 pm

• The formative intersections of ‘race’, nation and generation – Rachel Rosen and Veena Meeto

5 March 2024, 1–2 pm

• Examining work-family decision-making processes at the transition to parenthood – Clare Stovell

19 March 2024, 1–2 pm

• Family reunion and refugee integration – Andrea Verdasco

26 March 2024, 1:15–2:15 pm

• Storying later life: Key concepts in a narrative perspective on ageing – William Randall

23 April 2024, 1:15–2:15 pm

• Mothers doing friendship in a hostile environment – Rachel Benchekroun

30 April 2024, 1:15 pm–2:15 pm

• Identity processes among gay and bisexual men of religious faith – Rusi Jaspal

23 May 2024, 2:00 –3:30 pm

• Film screening: Bhashaili (Adrift), 2024 – Humera Iqbal

28 May 2024, 1:15 pm–2:15 pm

• Stigma and identity research: insights when studying LGBTQ+ and other stigmatised populations – Diego Castro Monreal, Kate Luxion, Ellen Davenport-Pleasance

14 September 2022, 12–1pm

• The geek as gatekeeper? Changing relations between gender, race and technology – Maria Berge (Umeå University), Andreas Ottemo (Gothenburg University), Heather Mendick (London), Eva Silfver (Umeå University)

3 October 2022, 1–2pm

• Promoting sustainable livelihoods: unpacking empowerment with young migrants in Ghana – Dr Grace Spencer (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Jill Thompson (University of Sheffield).

4 October 2022, 1–2pm

• Heading home: Fantasies and injuries of motherhood and work – Shani Orgad (London School of Economics)

1 November 2022, 1–2pm 

• Listening for migrant justice: The London Permanent Peoples’ tribunal “The Hostile Environment on Trial" – Leah Bassel (University of Roehampton)

29 November 2022, 1–2pm

• Parents’ dual reconciliation of gainful employment and childcare: Empirical evidence from Austria – Gerlinde Mauerer (University of Vienna)

6 December 2022, 1–2pm

• Maternal health and care proceedings: A mixed-methods approach – Claire Grant (UCL, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care and Thomas Coram Research Centre)

17 January 2023, 1–2pm

• The complexity of evaluating social care interventions using administrative data – Emily Ashford, Rocio Mendez Pineda and David Sanders-Ellis

31 January 2023, 1–2pm

• The Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study – Alissa Goodman

10 May 2023, 12–2pm

• "Children Framing Childhoods": Visions of care in education and society – Wendy Luttrell

23 May 2023, 1–2pm

• Promoting sustainable livelihoods – Grace Spencer and Jill Thompson

30th May 2023, 1–2pm

• Too fertile, not fertile enough? – Esmée Hanna

6 June 2023, 1–2pm

• Normalisation of pupil violence against Teaching Assistants – Amanda Holt

Autumn term

5 October 2021

• Racism, mental health and young people of colour – Tuuli Kurki (University of Helsinki, Finland)

19 October 2021

• Comfortably anxious: Attitudes of the top 10% of income earners towards inequality and redistribution – Marcos Gonzales Hernando (Social Research Institute, IOE)

2 November 2021

• Interviewing child witnesses: What we already know and what we still need to know – Ching-Yu Huang (University of Keele)

30 November 2021

• HIV science and gay fatherhood: Translating medical advances into policy and practice – Robert Pralat (University of Cambridge)

Spring term

18 January 2022

• Cannabis law reform in the 1960s – Professor Toby Seddon (IOE)

1 February 2022

• Mutual aid disaster relief: consciousness-raising and radical pedagogy beyond social capital – Dr Rhiannon Firth (IOE)

15 March 2022

• Donor conceived young adults – Drs Sophie Zadeh and Kitty Jones (UCL)

Summer term

26 April 2022

• Negotiations of food, respectability and gender. Discourses and food practices among women in disadvantaged conditions – Dr Kia Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen)

3 May 2022

• Narrative imagination, agency, and the pandemic moment – Professor Molly Andrews (IOE)

17 May 2022

• Are vegan bad parents? The controversy over child veganism in Switzerland – Dr Edmée Ballif (University of Lausanne)

31 May 2022

• Donor conceived young adults – Drs Sophie Zadeh and Kitty Jones (UCL)

7 June 2022

• Parenting leave in international perspective: The dynamics of culture and policy – Professor Alison Koslowski (IOE)

Autumn term 2020–21

6 October 2020

• Structural racism, redlining, and preterm birth in New York City – Dr Mary Huynh (NYC Health Department)

20 October 2020

• 'It's not a prison': a critical (anti-racist) analysis of the increasing presence of police in schools – Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury (University of Manchester)

27 October 2020

• Boundaries of love: Black-White couples in Brazil and the United States – Dr Chinyere Osuji Rutgers (University-Camden)

24 November 2020

• Reflections on the role of racial capitalism (and racial patriarchy) in understanding the Swedish labour market – Professor Anders Neergaard (Linköping University)

1 December 2020

• Black mothers’ lives: Intersectional analyses of/approaches to parenting culture – Dr Patricia Hamilton (IOE)

15 December 2020

• Foundling Hospital archives and the lives of black and minority ethnic children – Carol Harris, Coram children's charity (formerly the The Foundling Hospital) and Janette Bright, the Foundling Museum

Spring term 2020–21

19 January 2021

• Joining the dots: food, family and migration research – Dr Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic (Syracuse University)

16 February 2021

• Supporting families and children beyond COVID-19 - Dominic Richardson (UNICEF)

23 February 2021

• Accelerated childhoods and the case for slow pedagogies – Alison Clark (IOE)

2 March 2021

• Couples balancing work, money and care: exploring the shifting landscape under Universal Credit – Jane Millar and Rita Griffith (Institute for Policy Research, the University of Bath)

16 March 2021

• Cancelled: Belonging under the fluid conditions of contemporary modernity – Daniella Shaw (University of Surrey)

23 March 2021

• The value of collaboration between researchers of poverty and low income during COVID – Kayleigh Garthwaite (University of Birmingham), Fiona McHardy (The Poverty Alliance) and Anna Tarrant (University of Lincoln)

Summer term 2020–21

4 May 2021

• Why should we bother with neoliberalism when we have to learn how to teach children? – Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes and Professor Peter Moss (IOE)

1 June 2021

• Deporting Black Britons portraits of deportation to Jamaica – Dr Luke de Noronha (UCL Institute for Advanced Studies)

Autumn term 2019–20

1 October 2019

• Stories of sameness and difference: The views, experiences and outcomes of children and adolescents with a trans or gender non-conforming parent – Sophie Zadeh and Susan Imrie (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)

8 October 2019

• No seminar

15 October 2019

• Understanding recurrent care proceedings: Fathers, mothers and family relationships – Dr Georgia Philip (University of East Anglia)

22 October 2019

• Children’s reasoning about peer rejection and school discrimination: Evidence from Denmark, Saudi Arabia, and the UK – Dr Harriet Tenenbaum (University of Surrey)

29 October 2019

• What else does researching with Haraway’s successor science make possible in childhood studies? – Professor Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University)

5 November 2019

• No seminar

12 November 2019

• No seminar

19 November 2019

• The Looked-after Children Grown up Project: Early findings on health and social outcomes in adulthood – Professor Amanda Sacker (UCL)

Spring term 2019–20

28 January 2020

• The coloniality of distinction: class, race and whiteness among post-crisis Italian migrants – Simone Varriale (University of Lincoln)

4 February 2020

• Brexit and family life – Katherine Davies (University of Sheffield)

25 February 2020

• Plastics and childhood – Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham)

17 March 2020

• The Ideal Woman: Female Evangelical Influencers and Social Media Stars – Katie Gaddini, (IOE)

24 March 2020

• Couples balancing work, money and care: exploring the shifting landscape under Universal Credit – Jane Miller and Rita Griffith (University of Bath)

Autumn term 2018–19

2 October 2018

• Screening if the film 'Ccàsemo, here we are. Lives on hold in Lampedusa' - Dr Michela Franceschelli (IOE)

16 October 2018

• Visionary women – their work for children and childhood, England, 1900-1920 - Professor Berry Mayall (IOE)

23 October 2018

• Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond - Dr Elaine Chase (IOE)

30 October 2018

• The ethics of research with children over time and place: reflections from young lives - Dr Ginny Morrow (IOE)

20 November 2018

• The efficacy and suitability of social isolation and loneliness interventions for older Black and Minority Ethnic individuals living in the UK - Brenda Hayanga (IOE)

27 November 2018

• In search of ‘stability: working-class men, masculinity and wellbeing in post-Soviet Russia' - Dr Charlie Walker (University of Southampton)

4 December 2018

• Intimate strangers? Working with intercultural couples - Dr Renee Singh (Intercultural Couples Centre)

Spring term 2018–19

15 January 2019

• Understanding and responding to perpetrators of sexual abuse: Perceptions, Prevention, Management and Desistence – Professor Kieran McCartan (UWE Bristol)

22 January 2019

• Sisters are doing it for themselves: Single Women’s Fertility Options and Reproductive Agency – Dr Zeynep Gurtin (UCL Womens Health)

29 January 2019

• Leave or remain? EU families in Brexiting Britain – Dr Nando Sigona (Birmingham University)

19 February 2019

• What difference does money make to young people’s experiences of school meals? – PhD Laura Hamilton (TCRU)

26 February 2019

• Hannah Arendt’s concept of “parental responsibility” and the rights of queer children and children of queer parents – Dr Francesca Ammaturo (Roehampton)

5 March 2019

• Cultural heritage, cultural wellbeing: The psychosocial impact of cultural interventions with marginalised audiences – Professor Helen Chatterjee (UCL)

19 March 2019

• ‘Reactive’ or ‘protective’ transnationalism – Dr Victoria Redclift (UCL)

Summer term 2018–19

23 April 2019

• Who are the humans behind the human rights cases? Migration cases from Russia to the European Court of Human Rights – Dr Agnieszka Kubal (TCRU, IOE)

14 May 2019

• 2,000 families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of-migration study – Ayse Guveli (University of Essex)

21 May 2019

• Professionalising early childhood education and care: workforce equity issues in the European context – Pamela Oberhuemer (IOE)

11 June 2019

• The cultural politics of household sustainability: environmental sustainability research with Somali immigrants in Manchester – Catherine Walker, Sherilyn MacGregor, and Tally Katz-Gerro (University of Manchester)

18 June 2019

• Stories of sameness and difference: the views, experiences and outcomes of children and adolescents with a trans or gender non-conforming parent – Sophie Zadeh and Susan Imrie (University of Cambridge)

25 June 2019

• Perpetual service innovation without evaluation: challenges to understanding what works for children exposed to domestic violence and abuse – Emma Howarth (University of Cambridge)

Spring term 2017–18

9 January 2018

• Subjectivity and care in the context of "forced marriage" – Dr Perveez Mody (Cambridge University)

23 January 2018

• Exploring longitudinal care histories for looked after children using administrative social care data – Louise McGrath-Lone (UCL)

30 January 2018

• Researching everyone in general practice: IRIS+ domestic violence training and support intervention for general practice clinicians – early findings from a feasibility study - Dr Eszter Szilassy (Bristol University)

20 February 2018

• Couple-Level Minority Stress and Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples – Professor Allen LeBlanc (San Francisco State University)

27 February 2018

• A liberated woman, a virtuous wife and good mother to an intensive and full-time mother: Chinese women's recount of their motherhood across three generations – Xin Guo (IOE)

6 March 2018

• Ethnography of the courtroom – immigration law cases in Russia – Dr Agnieszka Kubal (IOE)

20 March 2018

• Working-class men in contemporary Russia: inhabiting a 'failed' masculinity – Dr Charlie Walker (Southampton University)