DOCTORAL RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS
Date: Monday 12 July, 2021
Time: 2-3pm
Presenter: May Nasrawy, Doctoral Researcher, Social Work & Social Care PhD
Zoom link: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/96308214212
Surviving My ‘Online’ Viva: A final test, or a whole new beginning?
In this online presentation, May draws on her personal experience of having recently completed an online Viva to share some reflections on what it felt like to go through the process, how she prepared for it and, most importantly, what she learned from it. If you have recently completed a Viva, have one coming up, or are just interested in what Vivas actually entail, please join us - for some personal reflections and an online celebration of the end of the 2021 DRiP seminar series!
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READING GROUP
Date: Wednesday 9 June, 2021
Time: 4-5pm
Group Leaders: Professor Michelle Lefevre (CIRCY Director), Rebecca Webb (CIRCY Co-director) and Loreto Rodriguez (CIRCY PGRA)
Zoom link: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/92513905736?pwd=U1dGd1VwNG5RZXNSRmpsUVZ5UTY1UT09 (Meeting ID: 925 1390 5736 / Passcode: 744642)
Book Group Reading: 'Windrush Child' by Benjamin Zephaniah
In ‘Windrush Child’, Benjamin Zephaniah brings to life an important moment in modern British history, giving voice to the Windrush generation. This novel is the fifth book in the Scholastic Voices series – highlighting the situation and stories behind the myriad of people who have arrived from all over the world to the UK. The book teaches about inclusivity and diversity and gives voice to a generation of children whose stories had often been overlooked.
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OPEN RESEARCH SEMINAR
Date: Thursday 18 May, 2021
Time: 4-5pm
Speaker: Professor Anette Bolin, Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, University West, Sweden
Zoom link: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/95075431330
Income Support in Sweden: Facilitating educational opportunities for young people in newly-arrived families from Syria
In this seminar, Professor Anette Bolin will present her research. In Sweden, many of the children and young people living in families are reliant on social assistance— assessed to be among the poorest in the country—have an immigrant background.
This presentation is about 36 young people in newly arrived families from Syria and their perceptions about receiving social assistance. The young people and their families arrived in Sweden between 2014 and 2016. Applying Kuczynski and De Mol’s (2015) model of children’s agency reveals how participants’ experiences of social assistance in this study differ from those of young people in previous studies in Sweden. Rather than connecting social assistance with hardship, limitations, stigma and shame, participants viewed social assistance as sufficient for current needs and providing opportunities to improve the family’s situation; in particular, for parents receiving social assistance enabled the young people to go to school. Reciprocity was also highlighted, with participants expressing the desire to contribute to a welfare system from which they currently benefitted.
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS
Date: Thursday 16 March, 2021
Speaker: Martin Brown, Doctoral Researcher, Education PhD
Reconceptualising Teacher 'Participation' as Voice in Academy Schools
New models of network governance appear to have exacerbated old tensions between contractual accountability and professional accountability where teacher workload and supervision have increased.
Martin’s research examines participation as teacher voice in a high-achieving academy school in the south east of England. He argues that embedded systems of performance appraisal have become dysfunctional, and proposes that new systems of planning review and development are needed for networked schools, with a focus on self-appraisal and reflective writing.
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READING GROUP
Date: Thursday 18 February, 2021
Leader: Dr Pamela Thurschwell
Book: 'The Hate U Give' by Angie Thomas
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS
Date: Thursday 11 February, 2021
Speaker: Claire Durrant, Doctoral Researcher, Social Work & SocialCare PhD
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OPEN RESEARCH SEMINAR
Date: Thursday 4 February, 2021
Speaker: Dr Martin Bittner, Europa-Universitaet Flensburg
The Governance of Children's Lives during Covid-19 through Regulatory Educational Policies
- PRESENTATION
- CIRCY BLOG POST: In Conversation with Martin Bittner and Rebecca Webb - 'Governing children's lives during Covid-19 through educational regulatory practices
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Date: Thursday 10 December, 2020
Speaker: Emma Soye, Doctoral Researcher, Social Work & Social Care PhD
Reconceptualising 'Integration': A research journey
The ‘RefugeesWellSchool’ project aims to promote the wellbeing of young migrants and refugees by supporting their ‘integration’. Emma’s research on the project in two UK schools challenges the dominant ‘integration’ model.
She proposes an alternative framework based on her findings and suggests implications for social and educational policy and practice.
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Date: Thursday 26 November, 2020
Speakers: Valentina Terra, ex-Sussex Social Research Methods MA and researcher from the Chilean Observatory for Childhood and Youth,& Daniela Díaz, Observatory Director
Children and Young People's Experiences of Participation during the Social Protests in Chile
This seminar will look at children and young people’s experiences of participation in the current times of social demonstrations in Chile.
Specifically, it will illustrate their feelings and opinions about what has been happening in Chile, the state violence the children and young suffered during the protests, and their ideas and proposals for the new constitution we will be able to write.
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Date: Thursday 5 November, 2020
Speaker: May Nasrawy, Doctoral Researcher, Social Work & Social Care PhD
Living on the Margins: Understanding wellbeing through the everyday life experiences of young Arab Jerusalemites
In this Doctoral Research-in-Progress (DRiP) presentation, May will describe her research journey, starting from the point she developed an interest in the topic, through to why and how she went about researching it. She will pause at various intervals throughout to highlight particular challenges encountered, how she dealt with them, and ultimately “found her voice” through the ‘messiness’ of it all!