Early Career Day

Early Career Day for Parenting Culture Researchers, UCL, 2nd July

A list of 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.