Georgia (MA Sociology, University of Essex, PGCE, University of Greenwich) joined the Centre in November 2011, to begin an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, working with Professor Margaret O’Brien on a project to review and evaluate ways in which programmes for separating or divorced parents may engage and support men as fathers. She completed her PhD with the Open University in 2010. Georgia’s doctoral research was a qualitative study of fathering after divorce or separation, exploring fathers’ accounts of fathering experiences and identities, and the processes of sustaining relationships with children and with mothers. Georgia is currently working on another ESRC funded project, headed by Professor Gillian Schofield, Dr Jonathan Dickens and Dr Chris Beckett, looking at care planning for Looked After children, and the role of the Independent Reviewing Officer.

Georgia is a member of the BSA, BSA Families & Relationships Study Group and the Workshop for Qualitative Research on Personal & Family Relationships (London South Bank University). She is also an affiliate member of Centre for Research on Citizenship, Identities & Governance, at the Open University.

Georgia’s current research interests include: fathers, gender and care, qualitative and feminist research, the feminist ethics of care, parenting interventions and family policy.

Philip, G (2013) ‘Extending the analytical lens’: a consideration of the concepts of ‘care’ and ‘intimacy’ in relation to fathering after separation or divorce, Sociological Research Online, Vol. 18, Issue 1.
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/18/1/15.html

Philip, G (2012) ‘Working at post-divorce family life: The feminist ethics of care as a framework for exploring fathering after divorce or separation’ in Rogers, C & Weller, S (Eds.) (2012), Critical Approaches to Care: Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures, Routledge.

Philip, G, Rogers, C & Weller, S (2012) ‘Understanding care and thinking with care’, in Rogers, C & Weller, S (Eds.) (2012), Critical Approaches to Care: Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures, Routledge.

Philip, G & O’Brien, M (2012), Supporting fathers after separation and divorce; evidence and insights, Centre for Research on the Child and Family.

Philip, G (2012) ‘Relationality and moral reasoning in accounts of fathering after separation or divorce; care, gender and working at ‘fairness’, Families, Relationships & Societies, accepted March 2013.