Centre for Research on Families and Relationships: Recent submissions
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Domestic Abuse and Gender Inequality: An overview of the current debate
(CRFR, 2013-08)Domestic abuse is a global phenomenon which adversely affects individuals who experience it and creates social and financial burdens for the societies in which it occurs. While abuse can be perpetrated by women against ... -
Legally binding agreements: property division and child care when relationships break down
(CRFR, 2013-06)In Scotland, couples are able to enter into a written agreement regulating the division of their property and any ongoing support for each other, or for their children, when they separate. These ‘minutes of agreement’ ... -
Making sense of support:how parents view, experience and manage support for their everyday parenting
(CRFR, 2013-04)A range of policy initiatives have been introduced in Scotland with the aim of supporting families, increasing parenting capacity, and facilitating early intervention (for example, Early Years Framework; parenting ... -
Women in management: gender, age and working lives
(CRFR, 2011-10)The project reported in this briefing paper explored how age and gender inter-weave and impact on the working and home lives of women managers working in two EU member states, namely Finland and Scotland. The proportion ... -
Knowledge Exchange at CRFR: Past, present, future
(CRFR, 2011-11)CRFR set out with the aim to make research accessible to policy-makers and practitioners, and to act as a focal point for research on families and relationships. Over ten years it has emerged as a leader in the knowledge ... -
Twenty + Futures
(CRFR, 2012-09)In a period of heightened awareness of global threats to orderly and predictable futures for people and planet – recession, climate change, peak oil, loss of biodiversity, terrorism – does this uncertainty impact on how ... -
A Response to the Government's "Measuring child poverty: A consultation on better measures of child poverty" from the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) at The University of Edinburgh
(CRFR, 2013)A response to the Government’s ‘Measuring child poverty: A consultation on better measures of child poverty’ from the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) at the University of Edinburgh www.crfr.ac.uk -
Assessing research impact: A case study of participatory research
(CRFR, 2013-02)There is much current interest in how impacts of research on the wider economy and society can be analysed and documented, despite many methodological and practical challenges. This briefing reports on findings from a ... -
Veterans and their families
(CRFR, 2012-04)This briefing paper reports on the outcomes of a range of activities undertaken with a number of veterans, veterans’ families, and third and public sector organisations located in Scotland. Our aim was to explore the ... -
Me and my befriender: exploring adult/child befriending relationships
(CRFR, 2012-05)Organised befriending provides supportive, reliable relationships through volunteers to people who would otherwise be socially isolated. In the UK, for example, befriending projects provide services to a range of people ... -
"Let's talk about it" - Using stories to improve care for older people: a practical guide
(CRFR, 2010-02)A network for staff involved in caring for older people wherever that care takes place. Older people are cared for in a huge variety of care settings (hospital wards, care homes, day hospitals, out-patient clinics, in ... -
Secretly connected? Perceptions about anonymous semen donation and genetic fatherhood
(CRFR, 2012-10)The use of anonymously-donated semen (DI) as a strategy for circumventing human male infertility and for helping couples to avoid passing on a genetic problem has been practiced in the UK for over seventy years. The ... -
Hearing children in court disputes between parents
(CRFR, 2013-01)The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 gives children the right to have their views taken into account when their parents take a dispute over the child to court. This is consistent with Article 12 of the United Nations Convention ... -
Listening to and learning from children and young people affected by parental alcohol problems
(CRFR, 2012-02)Across Scotland, an estimated 65 000 children are living with parental (or carer) alcohol misuse (Scottish Government, 2009). Given the common secrecy and potential stigma of problematic alcohol use, the experiences of ... -
Exploring children's experiences of migration: movement and family relationships
(CRFR, 2012-07)The focus on child migration is relatively new. Child migrants have been portrayed as lacking agency, passive victims of – at best – their parents’ decisions – at worst – adult exploitation. Recent research evidence ... -
Is there something special about family meals? Exploring how family meal habits relate to young children's diets
(CRFR, 2012-09)Some 35% of teenagers in Scotland are overweight or obese, more than anywhere else in Europe (IASO data for 2012). This points to an urgent need to improve children’s diets. Child nutrition policy in Scotland has primarily ... -
Second class citizens...second class women: The impact of gender inequality and gender based violence on transsexual women
(CRFR, 2012-12)Background: In 2010 the LGBT Domestic Abuse Project and the Scottish Transgender Alliance published research looking at the transgender people's experience of domestic abuse (Roch et al, 2010). The research found extremely ... -
Young people's attitudes about violence
(CRFR, 2011-02)Men’s violence against women is a global social problem and an enduring human rights issue. Feminist research and activism has maintained that to challenge and prevent men’s violence against women, changing attitudes and ... -
Someone to talk to: views and experiences of emotional support
(CRFR, 2011-04)We are told that ‘emotional culture’ in Britain is changing. But have we actually become more emotionally open? Are we now more comfortable talking about our emotions, both to those we know and to those ‘trained to listen’? ... -
From mother to daughter: How mothers and daughters share information about parenting
(CRFR, 2010-11)How parents, and mothers in particular, choose to raise their children is influenced by a range of factors. Expert advice as well as social, cultural and political factors all play a part. Personal and family experience ...
