Changing Parenting Culture

ESRC Seminar Series : Seminar 2

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Programme

Gender and parenting culture: Intensive fatherhood?

Cambridge University
Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, Cambridge,
Friday 3 April 2009

Printable PDF of programme (updated 26.03.09)

April 3rd

9.15 – 9.45: Registration (Coffee provided)

9.45 – 10.00: Welcome and introduction to the day
Dr Ellie Lee, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Kent

10.00 – 11.30 Session 1
Intensive fatherhood?: The inclusion dynamic
Chair: Dr Ellie Lee
Contemporary Fathering: Theory, Policy and Practice
Professor Brid Featherstone, Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, Bradford University
Young fathers
Professor Gayle Letherby, Professor of Sociology, Plymouth University
Discussant:
Dr Jan Macvarish Research Associate, CHSS, University of Kent

11.30 – 11.45 Break

11.45 – 1.15 Session 2
Intensive fatherhood?: Experience and culture
Chair: Zeynep Gurtin-Broadbent, PhD Student, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge
Intimate fatherhood
Dr Esther Dermott, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol
Attachment parenting, gender roles and (in)equalities of care
Charlotte Faircloth PhD Student, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

1.15 – 2.15 Lunch (Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane)

2.15 – 3.30 Session 3
Fatherhood and legal change: Joint birth registration
Chair: Helen Reece, Reader in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London
Unmarried Fathers and Rights on Birth
Professor Sally Sheldon Professor of Law, University of Kent
Discussant:
Dr Jonathan Ives Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham

3.30 – 3.45 Break

3.45 – 5.15 Session 4
Fathers’ rights and responsibilities

Chair: Dr Jude Browne, Executive Director, Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies
Fatherhood and law: Fathers’ Rights movement

Professor Richard Collier, Professor of Law, University of Newcastle
Discussant:
Jennie Bristow, Journalist and Researcher, founder www.parentswithattitude.com

5.15 – 5.30 Closing remarks
Dr Ellie Lee

     

 

 

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