Research
The Thomas Coram Research Unit carries out a wide range of research with a focus on children and young people in the context of the family, as well as in health, education, care and social service settings.
Current research projects:
Children's and young people's workforce and services
- Research governance arrangements for children's services
- Social pedagogy in children's residential care: DCSF pilot programme
- Research and analysis on the evidence base for interagency working in children's services, and the scope for development of these approaches through the medium of Children's Services Committees in Ireland
Parenting and families
- Working with families of children placed away from home: Cross-European perspectives
- Investigating alternative sampling frames for the Family Resources Survey (FRS)
- Food practices and employed families with younger children
- Fathers across three family generations in Polish, Irish and UK origin white families
- The role of infant learning in the development of 'sleeping through the night'
- Stress in children
- Identities in process: becoming mothers in Tower Hamlets
Promoting children and young people's health and wellbeing
- Behavioural and emotional dimensions in children (Dimensions of challenging behaviour: Enhancing family resilience)
- Top girls: middle class privilege and agentic practice
- Meeting the health needs of families referred to FIPs
- Between subjectivity and practice - male-to-male sexuality in West Bengal
- Transforming girls education in Tanzania and Nigeria
