Children and Childhoods
10–11 JULY 2024
WEDNESDAY
8.30–9.15AM
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building
9.20–9.35AM
WELCOME, CHILDREN OF SUFFOLK
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
9.35–10.00AM
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Professor Sarah Richards
Head of Suffolk Doctoral College
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
10.00–10.55AM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Children as future-makers in a pluriversal world: From defuturing to other possible worlds and ways of being
Professor Spyros Spyrou
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
11.00AM–1.00PM PANEL ONE
STREAM 1A — Global and Peripheral Childhoods
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
Gopika Gopakumar
Moothedath
Drama-based pedagogy among marginalised children in India
STREAM 1B — Children’s
Rights, Voice and Participation 1
W115, first floor, Waterfront Building
Rachel Shanks
Countering the costs of school uniform
STREAM 1C —
Contemporary Families
W119, first floor, Waterfront Building
Yu Zhao
Institutional support for single mothers and their relation to parental attitudes in China and the UK
STREAM 1D — Policy, Intervention and Evaluation
W209, second floor, Waterfront Building
Eva Lopes Fernandes and Maria Assunção Flores
Portuguese pupils’ views of how to improve their school experience
STREAM 1E — Workshop
W126, first floor, Waterfront Building
Irum Maqbool
Exploring the social construction of ‘child’ and ‘future’ in a global south context through narratives of experiences of secondary school students with their school administration staff in Lahore, Pakistan
Jen Lyttleton-Smith
Dragged kicking and screaming: Agency and violence for children entering secure accommodation
Jennifer Ginger Adoptive parents with birth children: How the adoption of a child from care may impact their biologically related child
Minha Khan and Ursula Hankinson
Approaches to monitoring, evaluation and learning of early childhood innovations — sharing learning from Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Uganda
Naomi Leonard Young people leading the journey: Our young researcher training programme (YRTP)
Kaidong Guo and Spyros Spyrou
Category construction and knowledge production in childhood studies: Rethinking ‘leftbehind children’ through the case of ‘Liushou children’ in China
Amanda Hatton
Exploration of how professionals support young people and advocate for children’s rights
Dimi Kaneva and Elizabeth Woolley
Embedding participatory research with children and young people experiencing parental conflict in family support work
Rowena Seabrook
They should know — intergenerational human rights education using children’s literature
1.00–2.00PM
LUNCH AND POSTER PRESENTATION (see end of day one for presentation titles) Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building
2.00–4.00PM PANEL TWO
STREAM 2A —
Pedagogies and Children’s Skills
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 2B —
Identity, Belonging and ‘Otherness’
W115, first floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 2C —
Children’s Digital Lives and Images of Childhood
W119, first floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 2D
— Children’s Rights, Voice and Participation 2 W209, second floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 2E
— Politics of Childhood(s)
W210, second floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 2F —
Workshop
W126, first floor, Waterfront Building
Julie Spray
Interdisciplinarity in children’s studies teaching: Tensions and transcendences
Robin Dallas-Childs
This is who I am — emerging identities of children and young people in residential childcare (findings and reflections from a study in Scotland)
Natalie Coulter
Defining the kid in kidtech: Roblox and the neoliberal nexus of play
Claudia Andreatta
Unheard voices: The role of children in the reinterpretation and transmission of religious views
Prerna Gautam
Exploring the ‘apolitical’ to institutional childcare in Kashmir: A survival strategy in a protracted conflict zone
Helen Battelley
The physical inactivity crisis
Hannah Steventon
Killing fairies with magic: Why I teach children to code
Haoyue Guo
Canvas of belonging: Art as a mediator in migrant children’s narratives of identity and place
Maciej Wróblewski
Expanding the area of childhood?
Rebecca Crutchley
Constructions of agency in children’s cultural and linguistic brokering practices
Sarada Balagopalan Navigating postschool futures in Mumbai: On aspiration, ‘adjustment’ and gendered exhaustion
Claire PatersonYoung, Ecem
Karlıidağ-Dennis and Richard Hazenberg
Empowering disadvantaged youth: A capabilities approach to assessing sports-based education programmes in England and Wales
Lucy Robinson Service children:
Identity, belonging and otherness
Louise Couceiro, Laura Hakimi, Valentina Andries and Rebecca Eynon Children, technology and the future: Centring young people’s perspectives in re-imagining schools for transformative change
Athifah Utami
Looking into the implementation of the convention of the rights of the child in Indonesia
Megan Devonald Growing up during polycrises: How are adolescence capabilities affected during their transition to adulthood?
Vijitha Rajan
Educating marginal childhoods in India: Dominant discourses and exclusionary dynamics
We’am Hamdan Media, movement and liberation: How Palestinian children educate and resist
Eva Lopes Fernandes, Orlanda Tavares, Diana Pereira, Fernando Ilídio Ferreira and Maria Assunção Flores
Pupils’ perceptions about leadership and their school experience
4.00–4.30PM COFFEE Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building
4.30–6.00PM PANEL THREE
STREAM 3A —
Researching Children’s Lives
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 3B —
Theorising Childhoods
W115, first floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 3C —
Rethinking Children’s Friendships in Educational Settings Symposium
W119, first floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 3D —
Children’s Experiences in School
W209, second floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 3E —
Preserving Children’s Culture and Identity in Rural Communities Panel
W210, second floor, Waterfront Building
Abigail Shabtay
Examining drama as a method for childcentred research
Kate Bacon and Zoe O’Riordan
Challenging the marginalisation of children through coproduction
Caron Carter
Children’s friendships and precarity
May Nasrawy
Exploring ethical and methodological dilemmas in working with children experiencing violence and conflict
Bonan Liu
Entangled encounters in early childhood education and care: investigating dynamics of child and more — then human in kindergarten settings
Kate Adams
Children’s friendships through a spiritual lens
Jialing Li
Reconsider teachers’ roles in kindergarten play activities from children’s perspectives: What kind of teachers’ roles meet children’s needs to support them as future-makers?
Wilma RoblesMelendez, Fengling Tang, and Zoi
Nikiforidou
Preserving children’s culture and identity in rural communities: Findings and reflections from an analysis of children’s books imagery and representations
Zifi Tung
Teenagers at play: Investigating playful experiences in schools
Sara Reis da Silva
Screen time in contemporary children’s picture books: Between a literary matter and an urgent debate
Maureen Haaker “Feeling pregnant:”
Foetal subjectivation in pregnancy narratives
Jasmina Troshanska, J. Kožárova, I. Trellová, S. Faka, C. Sweeney and M. Jancec
Early childhood behaviour management training for pre-school teachers through a digital game — preschool ABA project
7.00PM
CONFERENCE DINNER
Bistro on the Quay
POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
Kaidong Guo, Hanrui Li, Jiayi Cai — Research with children: ethical dilemmas regarding practice in the Chinese context
THURSDAY 11
9.00–9.45AM REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building
9.45–10.00AM
10.00–10.55AM
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Professor Brian McCook
Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION — Optimism of the will: Children and future-making
Professor Karen Wells
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
11.00AM–1.00PM PANEL FOUR
STREAM 4A
— (Dis)abling Childhoods
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 4B — Health, Wellbeing, and Embodiment
W115, first floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 4C — Children in Conflict
W210, second floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 4D —
Social and Culturallysustaining Pedagogy W209, second floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 4E —
Workshop
W119, first floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 4F —
Workshop
W126, first floor, Waterfront Building
Akosu Frema
A case for access to private education for persons with disabilities in Ghana Emily Ruegg
Transforming the future through midwifery
Mortada Haidar
Beirut’s children: first- and second-generation narratives of the Lebanese civil war Paul Arch Reboot education: Empowering learning through education Lucy Robinson Researching children’s lives: Using the self-portrait and relational map as a creative data generation method
Catherine Walker, Katie Parsons, Florence Halstead, Matluba Khan Children, young people and unequal climate futures: Conversations across contexts
Nic Whittam
Identifying developmental language disorder with machine learning
Bewunetu Zewude and Getnet Tadele
Where awareness guarantees no protection: Susceptibility to scabies and related health seeking behaviour of street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Hannah Hoechner and Yagana Bukar
‘You know young people, they like challenges:’ Exploring the intergenerational dynamics underpinning and unleashed by northeast Nigeria’s Boko Haram conflict
Maryam Bham
Nurturing antiracist futures in early childhood education: A teacher’s reflection
Sarah Arch Dismantle
initiative:
Changing the way we view disability
Lara Descartes and Josette Rosenzweig
Espinal
Food messages in Spanish-language children’s picture books available in México
Pere Ayling
‘We are not concerned about good grades:’ Elite Nigerian
1.00–2.00PM
LUNCH
Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building
Dorthea Bjerre Jepsen
Desirable futures and emotional investments in kindergarten class pedagogies
2.00–4.00PM PANEL FIVE
STREAM 5A — Children
and Family Wellbeing:
Exploring Theoretical Perspectives Panel
W115, first floor, Waterfront Building
Theodora
Papatheodorou, Lisa
Gentle, and Paulette Luff
Children and Family Wellbeing: Exploring Theoretical Perspectives
STREAM 5B — Children’s
Political Lives
W209, second floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 5C — Sex and Sexualities
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
Itay Snir
Re-imagining childhood: Children and politics after the future
Geraldine Rumbold
What influences whether year eleven boys choose or not choose geography at A-level?
STREAM 5D —
Workshop
W210, second floor, Waterfront Building
STREAM 5E — Workshop
W126, first floor, Waterfront Building
Revital Pollack
When child soldiers of the united states military became adults
Minkyung Kwon
Condom as a playful object: Girl activists’ participatory arts-based methods in reconstructing teenage girl sexuality
Pei-Ying Wang
Colonial modernity and the construction of juvenile delinquency in colonial Taiwan
Ananda Breed and Sarah Huxley
The warrior girls of Rwanda: challenging and calling forward alternative gender norms
Daniel Fulvio
Early moves: A collaboration between greater Manchester combined authority and rambert dance company
Sarah Arch Dismantle initiative — dismantling ableism and promoting proactive inclusion
4.00–4.30PM
PLENARY AND CONFERENCE CLOSE
WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building
Conference rooms
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