Conference Aims

Over the last decade researchers have made great advances in conceptualising and understanding children’s lives and children’s wellbeing after divorce or separation. However there have been few opportunities for researchers from different disciplines and different countries to meet together. The aim of the conference therefore is to bring together researchers from psychology, sociology, family studies, demography, social work, socio-legal studies and other disciplines who all share a common research interest in children and divorce. The conference will be a unique opportunity for distinguished and emerging researchers to meet face-to-face to share work in progress and to shape the future research agenda.

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Topics

The conference will focus on divorce and family restructuring in relation to children. The major areas will include, but not be restricted to:

• developmental outcomes for children of divorce/separation;
• children’s experience of divorce and separation
• children’s residential patterns and relationships after divorce (residence and contact/custody and visitation);
• determinants of residence and contact;
• child support;
• family reformation/blended families and stepfamilies
• children’s involvement in family/legal decision-making
• legal frameworks
• interventions
• methodological issues in researching children and divorce

Throughout the conference we will be seeking to establish:

• what do we currently know?
• what do we need to know?
• how could this be achieved?
  

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Format

The format for the conference has been designed to maximise the scope for the exchange of ideas and dialogue. The conference will run for four days starting on Monday evening with an opening plenary in the medieval Norwich Cathedral and ending on Thursday with the conference dinner in the Norman Foster designed Sainsbury Centre. In between times each day will be devoted to morning plenary presentations from internationally-recognised researchers, multidisciplinary or multi-method panels in the afternoon and early evening poster sessions. Attendance will be limited to 100 people in order to ensure quality opportunities for interaction among participants.

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Why ICCD 2006 is unique

• The whole meeting is dedicated to research on children and divorce
• It is multidisciplinary and multinational with scholars from around the world and from all relevant disciplines
• All participants attend the entire meeting and actively contribute to the conference by presenting a poster or paper.
• Extended break times and a full social programme ensure plenty of time for networking and interaction.
• The conference is being held on a beautiful parkland campus close to the medieval city of Norwich and the famous North Norfolk coast and Norfolk broads
• Conference activities are located within a five minute walk of the hotel-grade accommodation with access to a variety of shops, sports and other activities on campus

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Centre for Research on the Child & Family, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Tel: 01603 592068 Fax: 01603 593552

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