Join the Oxford Children’s Rights Network for an afternoon seminar with Virginia Morrow (Senior Research Officer, Young Lives, and Associate Professor, University of Oxford) for a talk entitled “Practical research ethics in a long-term study of children growing up in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Vietnam and Peru — examples from Young Lives.”
The event will take place on 17 May, between 4:30 – 6:30pm at the Manor Road Building in Seminar Room B. Light refreshments will be provided.
RSVP is kindly requested, for catering purposes; please visit http://bit.ly/ocrnlunch to indicate your attendance and preferences. To guarantee refreshments, please ensure you fill in this form no later than 12PM the day before.
—
[ABSTRACT TO FOLLOW]
Virginia Morrow is a sociologist and has carried out various research studies with children and young people since 1988. Her interests are sociology and history of childhood, ethics and methods of research with children, child labour/children’s work, children’s environments and social capital, children’s rights and participation.
She joined Queen Elizabeth House in January 2011. Prior to that she was Programme Leader of the MA Sociology of Childhood & Children’s Rights at the Institute of Education, University of London. She has also worked as a researcher at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and at Brunel University.
She has sat on numerous advisory groups and committees. She has been a Co-Editor of Childhood: a journal of global child research, published by Sage Publications in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, since 2006.