{"id":4412,"date":"2025-07-08T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/?page_id=4412"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:35:37","slug":"forthcoming-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/pcs-events\/forthcoming-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming events"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CPCS Autumn Seminar 1: Engaging Intensive Motherhood with Kate Hague and Daisy Skirton<\/b><\/h1>\n

Wednesday 7th October, 2.30-4.30pm<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Kate Hague, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, UCL<\/b><\/h2>\n

Mothercraft: Taught and (Re)Made<\/b><\/h2>\n

While historically associated with the teaching of parenting skills, this interdisciplinary research reclaims mothercraft as both craft <\/i>and craftiness<\/i>. In other words, mothercraft is not only the formalised instruction of how to mother, but the everyday ingenuity through which care is adapted, improvised, and made to work under constraint. As a first foray into a larger project, this presentation maps the conceptual terrain of mothercraft, opening space for more flexible and plural understandings of parenting expertise, maternal knowledge and care.<\/b><\/p>\n

Daisy Skirton, Associate Lecturer, UWE\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

‘Intensive Motherhood and Food Poverty: Classed Maternal Identities and Food Work.’\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

The research is an examination of the food work undertaken by working class mothers who attend a food club, a form of food charity provision, in Bristol. It looks at how the material realities of food poverty run into conflict with the imperatives of an intensive, classed parenting culture and how that shapes experiences of stigma and the identity work of working class mothers managing food poverty.<\/p>\n

Please sign up here<\/a><\/h2>\n

CPCS Autumn Seminar 2:\u00a0<\/b>Finding Formula: Confronting Insecurities with Lesley Frank, Alyssa Gerhardt and Clare Murphy<\/h1>\n

Wednesday, November 18 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 3 PM – 5 PM GMT<\/h2>\n

In February 2022, the Michigan-based Abbott Nutrition factory, a key infant formula producer, temporarily shuttered due to a bacterial contamination, instigating a crisis-level formula shortage in the United States (U.S.). Because Canada at the time imported 100% of its infant formula, mainly from the U.S., it wasn\u2019t long before Canadian families were affected. Inflation in both countries have now caused the price of infant formula to skyrocket. Families struggled, and still do, with these co-mingling risks to critical nutrition for infants in both counties. The project, Finding Formula: Confronting Insecurities<\/em> used sequential methods to engage caregivers in Canada and the U.S. to advance knowledge about the drivers of risk and impacts of these infant food insecurities on families\u2019 lives. Our methods included online interviews and surveys, collaboration with a social justice community choir, and a 6-week digital ethnography using the platform Indeemo, with 39 caregivers across Canada and the United States during which participants responded to weekly prompts about food work, feeding in troubled times, and outside influences that were either creating or mitigating infant food insecurity risk in their lives. Creative contributions from caregivers alongside produced videos and written vignettes made by the research team (sociologists, a documentary film maker, an interdisciplinary team of students) appear on a co-designed public facing website that serves as a story sharing platform. The contributions also serve as a research tool to illicit conversation with institutional and organizational policy actors (the last step of data collection) with the goal to connect everyday experiences of food insecurity to those with the power to enact emergency responses and long-term solutions to infant food insecurity.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lesley Frank (Principal Investigator), Canada Research Chair in Food, Health, and Social Justice, Acadia University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesley is a transdisciplinary social science scholar, skilled and committed to innovative, multi-sector, policy-relevant research related to food and health inequity experienced by marginalized populations and their children.<\/p>\n

Alyssa Gerhardt (Research Coordinator of Finding Formula Project), Fed Family Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alyssa is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Dalhousie University. She is a mixed-methods researcher and specializes in economic sociology and social inequality.<\/p>\n

Clare Murphy (CEO, Feed UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clare joined Feed from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, where she was chief executive. Over more than a decade at BPAS she worked to widen support for women\u2019s reproductive autonomy and deliver the law, policy and services for women to exercise choice in pregnancy. Clare believes passionately in ensuring women have access to evidence-based information and support so they can make the decisions that are right for them and their families – ultimately they are the ones who know their own circumstances best.<\/p>\n

Please sign up here<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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