An online workshop funded through the Postdoctoral Early Career Fellowship

Thursday 24 March 2022, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick

Introduction

This is a workshop which will focus on exploring ways in which scholars across disciplines have tried to conceptualize families and how these conceptualisations have led to different methodological frameworks and research designs.

The key speaker for this workshop, Dr. Patricia HamiltonLink opens in a new window, is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Social Research Institute. Her current project examines the development of parenting leave policies in the UK from the perspective of black families, drawing on interviews and discursive analyses of policy documents since the 1970s.

Patricia has taught in South Africa (at the University of the Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch University) and Canada and presented her work at conferences in Canada, Ireland and the UK. Her work has been published in Qualitative Research and Ethnic & Racial Studies. Her book, Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting: A Black Feminist Analysis of Intensive Mothering in Britain and Canada (Bristol University Press) was published in December 2020. In 2021, her book was nominated for the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize by the British Sociological Association. In September 2022, Patricia will join the University of York’s department of Sociology.

After a brief keynote address by Dr. Patricia Hamilton, the second half of the workshop is a panel discussing the following questions:

• How are our research/practical experience linked with family studies?
• Challenges in theoretically conceptualizing families across the world (and across disciplines)
• Challenges in our research practices
• New/Emerging theoretical and methodological frameworks to understand families

 

This workshop will contribute to international and inter-disciplinary scholarship on families. At the conclusion of this workshop, we will put together a network of academicians across disciplines who are interested in studying families.

 

Programme Schedule

Time	Activity
5 mins	Welcome Address and concept Dr. Anjali Thomas
5 mins	Introduction of Key Speaker Dr. Isabel Nuñez Salazar
25 mins	Address by Key Speaker: Parenting the nation: Intersectional implications of parenting and family Dr. Patricia Hamilton
20 mins	Discussion, questions and answers Chair: Dr Anjali Thomas
5 mins	Introduction to the Panel Dr. Erika Herrera Rosales
60 mins	A panel with different disciplinary and methodological engagement with families. Chair: Dr. Erika Herrera Rosales Panelists: Dr. Patricia Hamilton - Sociology of parenting Dr. Isabel Nuñez Salazar - Sociology of relationships Dr. Anjali Thomas - Sociology of education Dr. Eli Gemegah - Psychology/disability Addressing the following questions: How are our research/practical experience linked with family studies? Challenges in theoretically conceptualizing families across the world (and across disciplines) Challenges in our research practices New/Emerging theoretical and methodological frameworks to understand families
10 mins	Conclusion and Thank You Dr. Eli Gemegah

 

 

 

This workshop will be online by Teams MS on Thursday 24 March 2022 from [10.00-12:30] pm BST.

Registering for the Workshop:

• There is no registration fee
• Registration are closed
• Please feel free to contact us via email for further information or with any queries at familiesworkshop@warwick.ac.uk 

Keynote speaker Dr Hamilton

Photography provided by Patricia

This workshop is organised by:

Dr. Isabel Nuñez Salazar

Dr. Anjali Thomas

Dr. Eli Gemegah

Dr. Erika Herrera Rosales