Early Career Day for Parenting Culture Researchers, UCL, 2nd July
If you are interested in attending, please contact Charlotte (c.faircloth AT ucl.ac.uk) The programme is posted below, and abstracts/bios can be found here: CPCS Early Career Day Abstracts
11-11.15 Welcome and Introductions: Charlotte Faircloth
Introduction to CPCS: Ellie Lee
11.15-12.45 Panel 1 Birth, postpartum and support
Chair: Charlotte Faircloth
- Rebecca Matthews: The ‘Ought-Maternal-Self’: How Unmet Birth Expectations Shape Postnatal Distress.
- Georgine Leung: Sitting the month and the organisation of postpartum care work in Hong Kong
- Lizzie Lowrey-Crouch: The case for Social Prescribing for new mothers: how do new mothers engage with community provision and what are the benefits?
12.45-1.45 Sandwich Lunch
1.45-3.15 Panel 2: Childcare and parenting culture
Chair: Ellie Lee
- Annie Raff: The ‘good enough mother’ in family courts: use of parenting concepts in childcare proceedings.
- Victoria Pratt:“You don’t get to not be present”: how contemporary parenting culture shapes daily life in solo mother families in England.
- Emma Gilland: To what extent does childcare policy impact Generation Z Women’s fertility intentions?
3.15-3.30 Break
3.30-5pm Panel 3: Social reproduction and sociality
Chair: Jennie Bristow
- Daisy Skirton: Being Breadwinners: The Experiences and Perspectives of Mums who use a Food Club in South Bristol
- Cissie Buxton: ‘Ethnography at the Barbershop- Young Men’s perceptions of Young Fathers’
- Troy Broadley: The Fractured University: Sociality, Higher Education and COVID-19.