UPCOMING EVENT
International Interdisciplinary Conference
Contemporary children and families: opportunities and challenges in law, policy and practice
Date: 6 & 7 September 2023
Location: Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh
Organisers: Dr Rob Clucas, Dr Michal Piegzik, Dr Rebecca Williams
Keynote speakers: Professor Jonathan Herring (Exeter College, Oxford, UK); Professor Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory, USA), Professor Gillian Black (Edinburgh)
The 2023 Conference is the culmination of a period during which the Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network was established, to further the work of the Centre for Child and Family law and Policy at Edinburgh Napier University. As our theme, we are focusing on the opportunities and challenges in law, policy and practice, for contemporary children and families, in Scotland, the UK, and the wider world.
The Centre aims to contribute to the understanding and development of Scots law and policy through collaborative and multi-disciplinary work. We aim to engage in a meaningful way with academics, legal professionals, law- and policy-makers, third sector organisations, and the people impacted by Child and Family Law (broadly understood), in order to bring about positive change.
The purpose of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network funding is to build positive relationships between key individuals and organisations around Scotland and beyond, with a view to sharing ideas and research and strengthening links between those working in and around the field of Child and Family Law and policy.
We seek proposals from Law and other disciplines, from established Centre and Network members and those who are not so affiliated, including (but not limited to) Social Sciences, Childhood Studies, Social Work, Political Science, Health and Education, from the UK and beyond. We also welcome contributions from law and policy-makers, practitioners and the third sector.
Suggested themes:
- Children’s rights
- Comparative family law
- Cross-border disputes
- Domestic abuse and violence, including transphobic and homophobic violence and abuse
- Education
- Environmental rights and children / families
- Kinship and diverse forms of ‘doing families’, including ‘families of choice’
- Human rights, and humans who are excluded from rights, in the context of families and relationships
- International private law
- Migration
- Parenting – adoption, IVF, and other forms of parenthood/parenting
- Relationships, including singlehood, friendships, cohabitations, living apart together, and other diverse forms of intimate relationships
- Religion and children / families / relationships
- Sexuality, gender and trans+
- Vulnerability
Please submit abstracts (300 words max) to M.Piegzik@napier.ac.uk by midnight on Monday 15th May 2023 with a short biography or affiliation (max. 150 words).
Further information about conference attendance (both in-person and virtual) will be circulated in due course. In the interim, if you have any questions, please contact Dr Piegzik at M.Piegzik@napier.ac.uk .