International Conference on Children and Divorce Monday 24 - Thursday 27 July 2006 University of East Anglia Norwich, UK |
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Paul Amato is Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Family Studies, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University. He is known for primary research and meta-analytic reviews in the areas of marital quality, causes and consequences of divorce, parent-child relationships over the life course and psychological distress and well-being. Paul Amato's research focuses on marital quality, the causes and consequences of divorce, and children's well-being. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1983, he has published four academic books and over 100 journal articles. His most recent book, Marital Quality in America, is currently in press with Harvard University Press. In 1994, 2000, and 2002, he received the Reuben Hill Award from the National Council on Family Relations for the best article published during the previous year to combine research and theory on the family. He was a Fulbright fellow in India in 1992, and he became a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations in 2001. With Alan Booth and David Johnson, he has co-directed the study of Marital Instability Over the Life Course - a 20-year, national, multi-generational study of 2000 families. ICCD 2006 paper summary, presentation. Link to webpage: |
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Gillian Douglas is Professor of Law at Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, UK. She has taught Family Law since 1978 (formerly at the University of Bristol) and has written extensively on the subject. Her publications include An Introduction to Family Law (2001, 2nd edition 2004: Oxford University Press), (with Nigel Lowe) Bromley's Family Law (9th ed, 1998: Butterworths) and (with Chris Barton) Law and Parenthood (1995: Butterworths Law in Context series). She is the joint case comments editor of the journal Family Law and co-editor of the Child and Family Law Quarterly. With colleagues from the disciplines of law, psychology and social sciences, she has been involved in a number of empirical research studies into aspects of family life and the law, including a study commissioned by the Lord Chancellor’s Department of how children’s interests are handled on divorce (with M Murch, et al, Safeguarding Children's Welfare in Uncontentious Divorce, LCD Research Series 7/99:1999); a study funded by the ESRC of children’s own perspectives and experience of living through their parents’ divorce (with I Butler et al, Divorcing Children, Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2003); a study for the Nuffield Foundation of relationships between grandparents, parents and grandchildren after parental divorce (with N Ferguson et al, Grandparenting in Divorced Families, (published by Policy Press, 2004); and, in co-operation with One-Parent Families, another Nuffield Foundation funded study into advice for lone parents (with R Moorhead and M Sefton, The Advice Needs of Lone Parents, One Parent Families, 2004). Current work includes a study of the separate representation of children in private family law proceedings, funded by the Department for Constitutional Affairs, with Mervyn Murch, Claire Miles, Lesley Scanlan, Nina Smalley and Julie Doughty. She is a trustee of Family Mediation Cardiff and of the National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS), an Associate of the National Family and Parenting Institute and a member of the South Wales Local Family Justice Council and of the Wales Family Law Association. ICCD 2006 paper summary, presentation. Website link: http://www.law.cf.ac.uk/staff/DouglasG |
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Judy Dunn is MRC Research Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London. She is a developmental psychologist who has researched extensively into children’s relationships and adjustment in a range of family settings. ICCD 2006 paper summary, presentation. |
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Robert Emery is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law in the Department of Psychology, University of Virginia. His research areas include parental conflict, divorce, child custody, family violence, and associated legal and policy issues. In addition to over 100 scientific publications, Emery is the author of three books on divorce: Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation (1994, Guilford), Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Adjustment (1999, 2nd Ed, Sage), and most recently, The Truth about Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive. ICCD 2006 paper summary, presentation. Website links: |
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Janet R. Johnston Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Justice Studies, San Jose State University and was formerly consulting associate professor at Stanford University. She is also executive director of Protecting Children from Conflict, an affiliate of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition, California where she was previously the research director. For more than two decades, Jan Johnston has specialized in counselling, mediation and research with high-conflict, litigating divorcing couples and their children with special attention to domestic violence, child abduction and alienated children. She has published more than 60 professional papers and four books, including Impasses of Divorce (1988, with Linda Campbell) and In the Name of the Child (1997, with Vivienne Roseby). Dr Johnston is the recipient of several prestigious honors: the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award from the Academy of Family Mediators (2000), and the Stanley Cohen Distinguished Research Award (2000) and Distinguished Service Award (1996) from the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts. ICCD 2006 paper summary, presentation. |
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Valarie King is Associate Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies, and a Research Associate with the Population Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include father-child relationships, grandparent-grandchild relationships, child well-being, divorce, religion and family behavior, and cohabitation among older adults. She is currently principal investigator of a five-year project supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development examining how nonresident fathers participate in the lives of their children and, in turn, how father involvement influences child well-being. ICCD 2006 paper summary, presentation.
http://www.sociology.psu.edu/faculty/VKing.htm |
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Michael Lamb is a Professor in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge. His research interests include the development and significance of the relationships infants form to their mothers and fathers, their development over time, and the effects on child development of family violence, divorce, single parenthood, and non-traditional family forms. ICCD 2006 paper summary, presentation. Website links: |
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Dr Jennifer McIntosh in a clinical child psychologist. She is Director of Family Transitions and Children in Focus and an adjunct senior lecturer at Melbourne University and La Trobe University. Her research interests include child-inclusive practice, and the relationship between conflict, violence and child adjustment. ICCD 2006 paper summary (raw summary), presentation. Website links: |
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Liz Trinder is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Psychosocial Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Her research interests are in post-separation parenting and more broadly relationships and boundaries in complex families. She is currently working on two studies of dispute resolution in contested contact cases: on in-court conciliation for the Department for Constitutional Affairs and a new national pilot scheme (Family Resolutions) for the Department for Education and Skills. Prior to that she conducted a qualitative study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation exploring parent and child perceptions of what made contact work or not work. Other research has explored child participation in post-divorce decision-making and adoption reunions. ICCD 2006 paper summary, presentation. |
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