CRFR's International Conference

Book now for the CRFR International Conference: Researching families and relationships: innovations in methods, theory and policy relevance

10-12 June, John MacIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh #crfr2013

International speakers from 25 countries including Norway, Finland, the US, Malaysia, Portugal, France, and Israel:

• Exploring key topics such as domestic abuse, early years, climate change, kinship care
• Unrivalled international networking opportunity for researchers interested in families and relationships
• Innovative research methods and approaches including visual methods, digital and social media
• Addressing ethical issues and covering sensitive topics

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1 day, 2 day and 3 day rates available, including drinks reception and conference dinner

International keynote speakers will talk about child poverty, migration and globalisation; connectedness and kinship; and international development:

• Professor Jo Boyden from Young Lives;
• Professor Jennifer Mason, Manchester University
• Professor Rhacel Parreñas, University of South Carolina
• Glowen Kyei Mensah Participatory Development Associates, Ghana
• And CRFR’s Professor Lynn Jamieson

CRFR’s 3-day gathering of international academics working in the area of families and relationships is held every three years – don’t wait till 2016, book your place today!

Day one: Glowen Kyei Mensah on ‘Listening to the voices of children’ and choose from 41 papers on:
• Changing families and relationships
• Networks and mobility
• Elective relationships
• Time and generations
• The longitudinal lens
• Addressing issues of inequality m
• Resettling families
• The development of visual methods
• Post separation families and emotions
• Families and climate change
• Researching sensitive topics
• Addressing policy challenges
Then network and relax at the drinks reception

Day two: Rhacel Parrenas on Gendered intimacies in transnational life and choose from 43 papers on:
• Transnational families
• Kinship care
• Relexivity and Ethnography
• Researching majority/minority worlds
• The impact of the digital age
• Researching multiple family perspectives
• Mothers and inequalities
• Challenges in the early years
• Addressing issues of inequality
• Participative approaches
• Families food and eating
• Perspectives on families and domestic abuse’

Jo Boyden on what international comparative longitudinal research contribute to researching, understanding and changing childhood poverty in developing countries?

Then network and relax at the conference dinner

Day Three: choose from 19 papers on Families relationships and global issues
• Resettling families
• Networks and personal communities
• Learning from evaluation
• Families, relationships and global issues
• Mixed method approaches

Jennifer Mason talks about Sensations, atmospheres and resemblances: ‘tuning in’ differently to families and relationships.

A panel discussion is joined by Graham Allen, Keele University
Then book a masterclass with Jennifer Mason on ‘Facet Methodology’ principles and practice

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