Seminar 4

The focus of the fourth seminar is children within the family environment and their place in the European social model. Speakers will be discussing the problems of researching family and childhood, and will be demonstrating what can be learned from cross-national comparisons.

Provisional programme

9.45–10.15 Registration and coffee

10.15 Introduction: Dagmar KUTSAR (Unit of Family and Welfare Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia)

10.30 Fred DEVEN and Valérie CARRETTE (Population and Family Study Center (CBGS, Brussels) Assessing the Impact on Children of Leave Arrangements for Parents in Europe

11.30 Louise ACKERS and Liz OLIVER (School of Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK) Capturing the Subject in Comparative Socio-Legal Research: a case study of family migration

12.30 Buffet lunch

13.45 Julia BRANNEN (Thomas Coram Research Unit, London University, UK) Researching Children’s Family Lives from a Comparative Perspective: a dissemination project using video

14.45 Amélia BASTOS (Higher Institute of Economics and Management, Technical University of Lisbon) New Methods for Researching Child Poverty: cross-national learning from a Portuguese case study

15.45 Tea/coffee

16.00 Discussants:
Leena ALANEN (Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Katrin SAKS (Member of the Estonian Parliament, Social-Democrat Party)

17.00 Close

For abstracts of papers to be presented at the fourth seminar and profiles of the speakers ( click here )