Forthcoming events

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.