University of Suffolk Children and Childhoods Conference 2024 Programme by University of Suffolk

Children and Childhoods

10–11 JULY 2024

WEDNESDAY

8.30–9.15AM

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building

9.20–9.35AM

WELCOME, CHILDREN OF SUFFOLK

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

9.35–10.00AM

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Professor Sarah Richards

Head of Suffolk Doctoral College

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

10.00–10.55AM

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Children as future-makers in a pluriversal world: From defuturing to other possible worlds and ways of being

Professor Spyros Spyrou

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

11.00AM–1.00PM PANEL ONE

STREAM 1A — Global and Peripheral Childhoods

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

Gopika Gopakumar

Moothedath

Drama-based pedagogy among marginalised children in India

STREAM 1B — Children’s

Rights, Voice and Participation 1

W115, first floor, Waterfront Building

Rachel Shanks

Countering the costs of school uniform

STREAM 1C —

Contemporary Families

W119, first floor, Waterfront Building

Yu Zhao

Institutional support for single mothers and their relation to parental attitudes in China and the UK

STREAM 1D — Policy, Intervention and Evaluation

W209, second floor, Waterfront Building

Eva Lopes Fernandes and Maria Assunção Flores

Portuguese pupils’ views of how to improve their school experience

STREAM 1E — Workshop

W126, first floor, Waterfront Building

Irum Maqbool

Exploring the social construction of ‘child’ and ‘future’ in a global south context through narratives of experiences of secondary school students with their school administration staff in Lahore, Pakistan

Jen Lyttleton-Smith

Dragged kicking and screaming: Agency and violence for children entering secure accommodation

Jennifer Ginger Adoptive parents with birth children: How the adoption of a child from care may impact their biologically related child

Minha Khan and Ursula Hankinson

Approaches to monitoring, evaluation and learning of early childhood innovations — sharing learning from Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Uganda

Naomi Leonard Young people leading the journey: Our young researcher training programme (YRTP)

Kaidong Guo and Spyros Spyrou

Category construction and knowledge production in childhood studies: Rethinking ‘leftbehind children’ through the case of ‘Liushou children’ in China

Amanda Hatton

Exploration of how professionals support young people and advocate for children’s rights

Dimi Kaneva and Elizabeth Woolley

Embedding participatory research with children and young people experiencing parental conflict in family support work

Rowena Seabrook

They should know — intergenerational human rights education using children’s literature

1.00–2.00PM

LUNCH AND POSTER PRESENTATION (see end of day one for presentation titles) Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building

2.00–4.00PM PANEL TWO

STREAM 2A —

Pedagogies and Children’s Skills

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 2B —

Identity, Belonging and ‘Otherness’

W115, first floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 2C —

Children’s Digital Lives and Images of Childhood

W119, first floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 2D

— Children’s Rights, Voice and Participation 2 W209, second floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 2E

— Politics of Childhood(s)

W210, second floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 2F —

Workshop

W126, first floor, Waterfront Building

Julie Spray

Interdisciplinarity in children’s studies teaching: Tensions and transcendences

Robin Dallas-Childs

This is who I am — emerging identities of children and young people in residential childcare (findings and reflections from a study in Scotland)

Natalie Coulter

Defining the kid in kidtech: Roblox and the neoliberal nexus of play

Claudia Andreatta

Unheard voices: The role of children in the reinterpretation and transmission of religious views

Prerna Gautam

Exploring the ‘apolitical’ to institutional childcare in Kashmir: A survival strategy in a protracted conflict zone

Helen Battelley

The physical inactivity crisis

Hannah Steventon

Killing fairies with magic: Why I teach children to code

Haoyue Guo

Canvas of belonging: Art as a mediator in migrant children’s narratives of identity and place

Maciej Wróblewski

Expanding the area of childhood?

Rebecca Crutchley

Constructions of agency in children’s cultural and linguistic brokering practices

Sarada Balagopalan Navigating postschool futures in Mumbai: On aspiration, ‘adjustment’ and gendered exhaustion

Claire PatersonYoung, Ecem

Karlıidağ-Dennis and Richard Hazenberg

Empowering disadvantaged youth: A capabilities approach to assessing sports-based education programmes in England and Wales

Lucy Robinson Service children:

Identity, belonging and otherness

Louise Couceiro, Laura Hakimi, Valentina Andries and Rebecca Eynon Children, technology and the future: Centring young people’s perspectives in re-imagining schools for transformative change

Athifah Utami

Looking into the implementation of the convention of the rights of the child in Indonesia

Megan Devonald Growing up during polycrises: How are adolescence capabilities affected during their transition to adulthood?

Vijitha Rajan

Educating marginal childhoods in India: Dominant discourses and exclusionary dynamics

We’am Hamdan Media, movement and liberation: How Palestinian children educate and resist

Eva Lopes Fernandes, Orlanda Tavares, Diana Pereira, Fernando Ilídio Ferreira and Maria Assunção Flores

Pupils’ perceptions about leadership and their school experience

4.00–4.30PM COFFEE Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building

4.30–6.00PM PANEL THREE

STREAM 3A —

Researching Children’s Lives

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 3B —

Theorising Childhoods

W115, first floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 3C —

Rethinking Children’s Friendships in Educational Settings Symposium

W119, first floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 3D —

Children’s Experiences in School

W209, second floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 3E —

Preserving Children’s Culture and Identity in Rural Communities Panel

W210, second floor, Waterfront Building

Abigail Shabtay

Examining drama as a method for childcentred research

Kate Bacon and Zoe O’Riordan

Challenging the marginalisation of children through coproduction

Caron Carter

Children’s friendships and precarity

May Nasrawy

Exploring ethical and methodological dilemmas in working with children experiencing violence and conflict

Bonan Liu

Entangled encounters in early childhood education and care: investigating dynamics of child and more — then human in kindergarten settings

Kate Adams

Children’s friendships through a spiritual lens

Jialing Li

Reconsider teachers’ roles in kindergarten play activities from children’s perspectives: What kind of teachers’ roles meet children’s needs to support them as future-makers?

Wilma RoblesMelendez, Fengling Tang, and Zoi

Nikiforidou

Preserving children’s culture and identity in rural communities: Findings and reflections from an analysis of children’s books imagery and representations

Zifi Tung

Teenagers at play: Investigating playful experiences in schools

Sara Reis da Silva

Screen time in contemporary children’s picture books: Between a literary matter and an urgent debate

Maureen Haaker “Feeling pregnant:”

Foetal subjectivation in pregnancy narratives

Jasmina Troshanska, J. Kožárova, I. Trellová, S. Faka, C. Sweeney and M. Jancec

Early childhood behaviour management training for pre-school teachers through a digital game — preschool ABA project

7.00PM

CONFERENCE DINNER

Bistro on the Quay

POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

Kaidong Guo, Hanrui Li, Jiayi Cai — Research with children: ethical dilemmas regarding practice in the Chinese context

THURSDAY 11

9.00–9.45AM REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building

9.45–10.00AM

10.00–10.55AM

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Professor Brian McCook

Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION — Optimism of the will: Children and future-making

Professor Karen Wells

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

11.00AM–1.00PM PANEL FOUR

STREAM 4A

— (Dis)abling Childhoods

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 4B — Health, Wellbeing, and Embodiment

W115, first floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 4C — Children in Conflict

W210, second floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 4D —

Social and Culturallysustaining Pedagogy W209, second floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 4E —

Workshop

W119, first floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 4F —

Workshop

W126, first floor, Waterfront Building

Akosu Frema

A case for access to private education for persons with disabilities in Ghana Emily Ruegg

Transforming the future through midwifery

Mortada Haidar

Beirut’s children: first- and second-generation narratives of the Lebanese civil war Paul Arch Reboot education: Empowering learning through education Lucy Robinson Researching children’s lives: Using the self-portrait and relational map as a creative data generation method

Catherine Walker, Katie Parsons, Florence Halstead, Matluba Khan Children, young people and unequal climate futures: Conversations across contexts

Nic Whittam

Identifying developmental language disorder with machine learning

Bewunetu Zewude and Getnet Tadele

Where awareness guarantees no protection: Susceptibility to scabies and related health seeking behaviour of street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Hannah Hoechner and Yagana Bukar

‘You know young people, they like challenges:’ Exploring the intergenerational dynamics underpinning and unleashed by northeast Nigeria’s Boko Haram conflict

Maryam Bham

Nurturing antiracist futures in early childhood education: A teacher’s reflection

Sarah Arch Dismantle

initiative:

Changing the way we view disability

Lara Descartes and Josette Rosenzweig

Espinal

Food messages in Spanish-language children’s picture books available in México

Pere Ayling

‘We are not concerned about good grades:’ Elite Nigerian

1.00–2.00PM

LUNCH

Foyer, ground floor, Waterfront Building

Dorthea Bjerre Jepsen

Desirable futures and emotional investments in kindergarten class pedagogies

2.00–4.00PM PANEL FIVE

STREAM 5A — Children

and Family Wellbeing:

Exploring Theoretical Perspectives Panel

W115, first floor, Waterfront Building

Theodora

Papatheodorou, Lisa

Gentle, and Paulette Luff

Children and Family Wellbeing: Exploring Theoretical Perspectives

STREAM 5B — Children’s

Political Lives

W209, second floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 5C — Sex and Sexualities

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

Itay Snir

Re-imagining childhood: Children and politics after the future

Geraldine Rumbold

What influences whether year eleven boys choose or not choose geography at A-level?

STREAM 5D —

Workshop

W210, second floor, Waterfront Building

STREAM 5E — Workshop

W126, first floor, Waterfront Building

Revital Pollack

When child soldiers of the united states military became adults

Minkyung Kwon

Condom as a playful object: Girl activists’ participatory arts-based methods in reconstructing teenage girl sexuality

Pei-Ying Wang

Colonial modernity and the construction of juvenile delinquency in colonial Taiwan

Ananda Breed and Sarah Huxley

The warrior girls of Rwanda: challenging and calling forward alternative gender norms

Daniel Fulvio

Early moves: A collaboration between greater Manchester combined authority and rambert dance company

Sarah Arch Dismantle initiative — dismantling ableism and promoting proactive inclusion

4.00–4.30PM

PLENARY AND CONFERENCE CLOSE

WLT1, ground floor, Waterfront Building

Conference rooms

Student Centre

Reception

Studyand BreakoutArea