Centre for Parenting Culture Studies
Based in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research at the University of Kent. Our website is: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/
The Centre is based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Kent but has Associates at many Universities in the UK and other countries. The idea for the Centre was first discussed at an international conference held at the University of Kent in May 2007, called ‘Monitoring Parents: Childrearing in the age of intensive parenting’. From that point onwards, those now involve
01/11/2024
Big congrats to Pernille Juhl and Allan Westerling for a great workshop last week from their new Center for Everyday Life of Families in the Welfare State, Roskilde University
And thanks for inviting our Director Prof Ellie Lee to share her thoughts at it on 'The Rise of Parenting'
Workshop on welfare policies and the everyday life of families In October 2024, the center hosted an international workshop titled “Welfare policies and the everyday life of families,” funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. In addition to leading researchers from various fields, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students participated in the workshop, presenting...
25/10/2024
CfP for what looks like a great event feat. Dr Jennie Bristow giving one of the keynotes, on her work about generations
More inc. details for Abstract Submission here:
CFP: Family Fictions. Generations and Genealogies in European Culture | MDRN Contemporary culture is obsessed with generational identities. Everywhere, individuals are categorized under sweeping labels according to their age cohorts. At the same time, a fixation with mapping out origins flourishes, sustained by the expansion of platforms offering ancestral family tracing. Wh...
16/10/2024
Coming up on Saturday.
We're delighted to be a Partner for the Battle of Ideas again this year, for this panel with contributions from Emily Barley, Maternity safety campaigner; Dr Ruth Ann Harpur, clinical psychologist; co-founder, Infant Feeding Alliance; Ellie Lee, director, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies; and Clare Murphy, co-director, Feed; former chief executive, British Pregnancy Advisory Service; former health reporter, BBC.
There's a host of other important discussion about family, children, education inc. Nancy McDermott discussing her latest essay parental authority
The politicisation of maternity - Battle of Ideas Discussion at the Battle of Ideas festival 2024 at Church House, London on Saturday 19 October.
Exploring neuroparenting in Denmark
'Cultivating parental virtuosi: therapeutic grammar and neuro-claims in Danish parenting courses', by Stine Thidemann Faber
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/frs/aop/article-10.1332-20467435Y2024D000000033/article-10.1332-20467435Y2024D000000033.xml
and Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen
17/09/2024
3pm tomorrow on Zoom, Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker
Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South
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Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker, All Welcome!
13/09/2024
As ever we are delighted to be a partner for the Battle of Ideas; the two-day festival of discussion and debate is being held at Church House, Victoria, London on October 19 and 20
We are a partner for ‘The Politicisation of Maternity’ taking place on Saturday 19th, 12.30pm. Panel includes Clare Murphy (former CEO, British Pregnancy Advisory Service and now Co-Director, FeedUK), Emily Barley (safer maternity campaigner) and CPCS’ Prof Ellie Lee.
CPCS Associate Nancy McDermott will be discussing her new essay In Defence of Parental Authority later on, on Saturday 19 and CPCS’ Dr Jennie Bristow is a panellist for Boomers V. Zoomers: Bridging the Generational Divide on Sunday 20
Other sessions of interest include:
Can Schools Fix Broken Britain?
(De)socialised on YouTube?
Debating Matters: Smart Phones Should be Banned in the Classroom
From WPATH to the Cass Review: The Crisis in Medical Ethics
Bookshop Barnie: Why The World Needs More Children
Demographic Change: Will We Run Out of Workers?
Early Bird rates run to Monday 16th. You can get money off tickets for the event using the CPCS partner code CPCS-24
Battle of Ideas festival 2024 Britain's best festival of ideas returns to London. Free speech allowed!
One week from today
Come and discuss some problems of early childhood intervention with Gabriel Scheidecker
'Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South'
3pm Weds 18 Sept, On Zoom
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-brains-early-childhood-interventions-in-the-global-south-tickets-909727097237?aff=oddtdtcreator
11/09/2024
One week from today
Come and discuss some problems of early childhood intervention with Gabriel Scheidecker
'Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South'
3pm Weds 18 Sept, On Zoom
Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker, All Welcome!
06/09/2024
'It’s not you — parenting really is becoming more stressful'
Good insights about parenting culture in this article
https://www.ft.com/content/085510bf-d5fb-41fa-a078-31550f400cb3?accessToken=--sanitized--&sharetype=gift&token=--sanitized--&fbclid=IwY2xjawFH4htleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbFMVCMWvi57_fPVmkmcXNmtniDXnhEvUcYbIW5guh7psDi4CuJZ2tEo9Q_aem_UgSJawpF5MCayG_jlXv0LQ
It’s not you — parenting really is becoming more stressful The increased isolation many feel is a symptom of a larger problem
04/09/2024
Two weeks from today, join us for the last in our series 'New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies'.
Wednesday, September 18
Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South
Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker, All Welcome!
Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker, All Welcome!
25/08/2024
By Jennie Bristow for Unherd
https://unherd.com/newsroom/kirstie-allsopp-is-right-about-parental-safetyism/?fbclid=IwY2xjawE4RDxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTYoPQsXRlLymqBs27flNkranp9z01bWpO3AQTnguPMz0KKi0A0L6hzjwQ_aem_YSvy6f75-R3QvqkQAU-AmA
Kirstie Allsopp is right about parental safetyism The TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has been reported to social services for allowing her then 15-year-old son Oscar to go on a post-GCSEs interrailing trip with his 16-year-old friend. Earlier this week she posted on X celebrating Oscar’s safe return from his travels, leading to a predictable furore...
21/08/2024
What might be wrong about 'early childhood intervention'? A rarely asked question, at the centre of Gabriel Scheidecker's research programme.
Come and discuss 4 weeks from today
'Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South'
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Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker, All Welcome!
14/08/2024
Our first event after the summer is this one - we are very much looking forward to hearing from Gabriel Scheidecker about his research on the scientific and ethical validity of 'early childhood interventions' in the global South.
Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South
Weds 18 Sept
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Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker, All Welcome!
An interesting article about an important dimension of current 'parenting expertise'
'Parents as psychological coaches'
26/07/2024
Congrats to Worldwrite for their award-winning film on solidarity. Ellie Lee and Jennie Bristow delighted to have been asked to contribute; Ellie Lee highlighting here the importance of the contribution of Dr David Paintin to abortion rights and provision.
Men for Women’s Right to Choose An overwhelming three quarters of people in Britain, so that includes men, support a woman’s right to make her own abortion decision. Yet, in the UK, abortio...
26/07/2024
Jennie Bristow writing for Unherd on the child benefit cap. A great article putting the current argument in the context of the long degradation of genuine support for families
Keir Starmer's war on mothers Keir Starmer’s war on mothers Women are punished for having children Britain needs more babies. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) Britain needs more babies. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) Keir StarmerLabour PartySocietytwo-child benefit capUK Jennie Bristow July 25, 2024 5 mins As their swift...
26/07/2024
Join us on 18th Sept for the last in the current discussion series
'Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South' with Gabriel Scheidecker
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Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker, All Welcome!
05/07/2024
Catch up with the book launch for 'Studying Generations' on YouTube - a great discussion about the theme and comments from chapter authors
Book launch: Studying Generations Helen Kingstone and Jennie Bristow, editors of 'Studying Generations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives', discuss the book along with chapter contributors.More ...
27/06/2024
We've had a set of truly interesting discussions over the past few months in the New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies series. We're covered: Parenting Culture and declining fertility rates; Intensive parenting, childhood independence and playing out; The rise of ‘parenting policy’ and the fragmentation of the family; and The double bind of intensive parenting
You can read about the series here, and listen again to any or all of them (links to Zoom posted at the bottom of the text about each one)
New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies | Centre for Parenting Culture Studies New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies This series of discussions will be held on Zoom through 2024 and will highlight work by early and mid-career colleagues who have made use of ideas set out in Parenting Culture Studies within their work. All at....
27/06/2024
Thanks to all who came for a great discussion yesterday on the double bind of parenting culture - and especially to Raquel Herrero-Aria for the terrific paper
Our last discussion in the 'New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies' is after the summer - details and booking 🔽
Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South Discussion introduced by Dr Gabriel Scheidecker, All Welcome!
19/06/2024
One week from today, Weds June 26, 3pm on Zoom
Our last discussion for this academic year
'The double bind of intensive parenting'
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The double bind of intensive parenting The fourth of the discussion series 'New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies' introduced by Dr Raquel Herrero-Arias.
12/06/2024
New from Dr Kirsty Budds and co-authors
Promoting empowerment or intensifying reproductive burden? Accounts of preconception health adjustments among women trying to conceive Women’s preconception health is increasingly viewed as playing a critical role in pregnancy and birth outcomes and is becoming an increasing focus of public health messages within the UK and intern...
12/06/2024
New article by Sunna Símonardóttir on voluntary childlessness in the world's 'most feminist country'
“Unless I could be like the typical dad”: Exploring parenthood through the perspective of the voluntarily childfree - Sunna Símonardóttir, 2024 Fertility rates have significantly declined in advanced, industrialized nations. The factors contributing to these swift demographic changes are diverse, but it...
12/06/2024
Two weeks from today
Join us to discuss 'the double bind of intensive parenting'
Dr Raquel Herrero-Arias starting us off with discussion of her research with Southern European parents living in Norway
The double bind of intensive parenting The fourth of the discussion series 'New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies' introduced by Dr Raquel Herrero-Arias.
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