FaRComm research programme: Celebrations and Opportunities

On the 27th of March we organised an event to review our work and introduce opportunities going forward.

The FaR programme is now in its 4^th year of activities within the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, and is now being extended to incorporate attention to communities, as well as families and relationships. Over this time, we have also seen some regretful departures and happy arrivals amongst the staff and researchers involved with the programme.

This event provided an overview of current theoretical issues and thematic areas addressed by this programme, and introduced the new area of interest around communities. The afternoon also included the launch of two new publications from Policy Press:

• the new journal, Families, Relationships and Society which is co-edited by Professor Brid Featherstone;
• Understanding Family Meanings by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Megan Doolittle and Shelley Day Sclater.

The following video clips give an overview of the day's presentations and discussions:

Clip 1: Introduction to the FaRComm Programme (Jane McCarthy, Jacqui Gabb and Janet Fink)

Clip 2:

Children and Childhood (introduced by Janet Fink and presented by Lindsay O’Dell)

Family troubles (introduced by Jane McCarthy and presented by John Rowe) - @minute13.14

Families, transnationalism and mobilities (presented by Monica Dowling) - @minute25.01

Clip 3:

Intimate relationships (presented by Jacqui Gabb)

Parenthood (presented by Brid Featherstone) @minute8

Clip 4:

Social relations of neighbourhood (introduced by Janet Fink and presented by Helen Lomax and Ellie Jupp)

Gender, households and work (presented by Alison Andrew and Sue Himmelweit) - @20.30

Clip 5:

Launch of the journal Families, Relationships and Society (presented Brid Featherstone)

Clip 6:

Launch of “Understanding Family meanings” (presented by Megan Doolittle)

See also the day programme attached below.