Thursday 25 May 2023
12pm onwards: Registration, coffee and sandwiches
12.45pm to 1pm: Welcome and Opening Comments
Ellie Lee (Chair for the Day)
1pm to 2.30pm: Insights from qualitative research
- Charlotte Faircloth: Couples’ Transition to Parenthood and the ‘equality problem’
- Sunna Símonardóttir: Becoming a mother in ‘the world’s most feminist country’
- Respondent: Ella Whelan
2.30pm to 3pm: Break
3pm to 4.45pm: Problems of Infant Feeding Policy
- Lina Eriksson and Tizina Torresi: A view from liberal political theory on taking autonomy seriously
- Vera Wilde: Preventing harm to neonates and their mothers
- Erin Williams: Infant feeding and food insecurity: securing the right to food for all
4.45pm to 5.45pm: Research and the Public Conversation
- Discussion led by comments from Ruth Ann Harpur, Sue Haddon, Jessica Murray, Rebecca Steinfeld and Katherine O’Brien.
5.45 to 6.45pm: Drinks and further conversation
7pm: Optional dinner