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.