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Follow the CFR on Twitter: @CFR32 Job vacancies: two vacancies available
The closing date for applications for both job postings is Feb. 20th, 2013. News: The CFR's Irenee Daly discusses women delaying pregnancy in a recent news article in The Guardian. Read more here . Members of the CFR will be Speaking at the 2012 American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) this week (Oct. 20-24th). Professor Susan Golombok is one of three speakers in a symposium entitled 'Mental Health Professional Group Symposium - Making Babies, Raising Babies: A Collaborative Approach to Ensuring Children's Well-Being'. Susan Imrie is presenting a paper titled 'The long-term psychological health ofsurrogate mothers and their families'.
Professor Susan Golombok has recently been interviewed by The Guardian about three-parent families. The article is titled: 'Three-parent families can be as good as two'. Professor Golombok will be joining philosopher Julian Baggini, scientist Doug Turnbull and the Wellcome Trust's Mark Henderson, on Sunday the 14th October at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, for a conversation on modern families. Congratulations to Professor Susan Golombok on recenting being awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award to be held at the Centre for Family Research. The award is for a five year period of research with the theme Future Families: The social and psychological outcomes of emerging assisted reproductive technologies for individuals, families and society.
Congratulations to Dr. Tabitha Freeman on recently becoming a member of the National Donation Strategy Group set up by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in 2012! Reproductive Donation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics now published and available across the UK and EU!
Click Here to visit the book's webpage on the publisher's website. This edited volume is the first of three to be published as part of CFR's ongoing Bioethics project titled: Redefining Families: Bioethics, Assisted Reproduction and Emerging Family Forms, The 'Redefining Families' project is made possible thanks to the CFR's Wellcome Trust Enhancement Award in Bioethics.
Stonewall has published the 'THE SCHOOL REPORT: The experiences of gay young people in Britain’s schools in 2012' The CFR's Helen Statham, Vasanti Jadva and Irenee Daly conducted the survey and analysis.
Congratulations to Claire Hughes on her recent promotion to Professor of Developmental Psychology!
Congratulations to Polly Casey for her recent appointment as the new Research Officer at One Plus One! See below for the celebratory cake...
Congratulatios to Claire Hughes who has recently been awarded a new grant in partnership with researchers at the Institute of Education in Hong Kong. Click here for more details.
October 2011
Claire Hughes talking with Napoleon Katsos at the 2011 Afasic gala dinner.
Claire Hughes and others talk with John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons and President of Afasic. Congratulations to Claire Hughes for recently being nominated as one of 400 "women of the year, 2011." September 2011 Members of the CFR recently took part in the annual Alternative Family Show in London on the 17th of Sept., 2011.
April 2011 The CFR recently celebrated the launch of Dr. Claire Hughes's new book titled "Social Understanding and Social Lives," published by Psychology Press. The book has received great media coverage, including write-ups in The Times, The Guardian, The Australian, The Mail Online, and the University of Cambridge Research News. Congratulations Claire!
BOB EDWARDS: THE EARLY YEARS
Click the above image to view a gallery of images from the event. Click here to download an audio recording of Professor Johnson's lecture. On March 8th, 2011, at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, Professor Martin Johnson presented the lecture he had delivered at the Nobel Symposium in Stockholm in honour of Professor Robert Edwards. The Cambridge lecture was open to staff, students and members of the public. It was hosted by the Centre for Family Research.
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Congratulations to Gabriela Roman on her December 2010 wedding. Picture: cake celebration for Gabriela at the CFR Stonewall Report PublishedStonewall today publishes ‘Different Families', groundbreaking research examining the experiences of children with gay parents. Stonewall commissioned the Centre for Family Research to conduct interviews and focus groups with children of lesbian, gay and bisexual parents. Between October 2009 and February 2010, Helen Statham and Sarah Jennings interviewed 82 children and young people between the ages of 4 and 27 across the country about their family lives and school experiences.
Redefining Families: Bioethics, Assisted Reproduction and Emerging Family FormsThe Centre has been granted a 5-year Wellcome Trust Enhancement Award in Biomedical Ethics to develop capacity in bioethics. The award will enable engagement between social scientists and philosophers working in the field of assisted reproduction. For further information see here.
Awards:Congratulations to Dr. Vasanti Jadva on winning the 2011 ITRA-BTHA award for students! The ITRA- BTHA award committee unanimously decided that Vasanti's article “Infants’ preferences for toys, colours, and shapes: Sex differences and similarities” is the winner of the ITRA –BTHA prize for the best student research on toys. The prize will be awarded during the world congress of ITRA in Bursa, Turkey 27-30 July 2011. Congratulations to Dr Alex Marks whose PhD thesis 'Children's Interactions with Siblings from Ages 3 to 6: Developmental Trajectories and Links with Children's Peer Experiences' has been accepted. The CFR celebrated her success in typical style...
Press coverage:Dr Tabitha Freeman, Dr Vasanti Jadva and Professor Golombok's study of donor conceived children siblings conducted with Wendy Kramer of the Donor Sibling Registry has been published in the journal Human Reproduction. The study is the first large-scale investigation into the experiences of parents of donor-conceived children searching for and contacting their child's donor relations, and has attracted international press interest. The press release can be viewed here. Please follow the links below for a sample of the press coverage: National Public Radio: Donor conceived kids connect with half siblings Reuters: Parents of test tube babies seeking out siblings The Globe and Mail: Contact with donor siblings a good experience for most families
Future Conference papers and presentations:5 June, Cheltenham 5-6pm (Eureka tent) Title: Donor conception: a private family matter? Cheltenham Science Festival Presenting: Dr Tabitha Freeman Past conference papers and presentations: 28 February, London Title: Being: the donor conceived perspective Progress Educational Trust Presenting: Dr Tabitha Freeman 22 October 2012, San Diego Title: Parents and children in egg donation, donor insemination and surrogacy families: a longitudinal study from age 1 to age 10 American Society of Reproductive medicine Annual Conference Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok 26 September 2012, Lillehammer, Norway Title: New families, old values: parenting and child development in new family forms European Society on Family Relations International Congress Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok 11-12 September 2012, Essex Title: A web of relationships: searching for donor siblings and donors. European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on New Perspectives on Gamete and Embryo Donation: Ethics, Kinship and Citizenship in a Globalized World Presenting: Dr Tabitha Freeman 26-29th June, 2012, Rotterdam Title: The welfare of the child principle IAB World Congress on Bioethics Presenting: John Appleby 12 May 2012, London Title: Making Connections: mothers and children contacting their donor and donor siblings. 'Connections' Solo Mothers Conference, Donor Conception Network. Presenting: Dr Tabitha Freeman 6 January- 2012, Leeds Title: Children of surrogate mothers: an investigation into their experiences and psychological health. British Fertility Society Annual Meeting 2012 Presenting: Susan Imrie 6 January- 2012, Leeds Title: Non-genetic and non-gestational parenthood: An objective British Fertility Society Annual Meeting 2012 Presenting: Polly Casey 27 October- 2011, Sapporo, Japan Title: "Trust and Identity: Two reasons for telling children if they were donor conceived." Sixth International Conference on Applied Ethics Centre for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, University of Hokkaido. Presenting: John Appleby 17th September- 2011, London Title: "Searching for donors and donor siblings: What shall we tell the children?" Alternative Families Show Presenting: Dr Tabitha Freeman 15th September- 2011, New York, NY Title: " Ethical reasons for telling children if they were donor conceived " Center for Bioethics, Columbia University Presenting: John Appleby 4th July- 2011 , Stockholm, Sweden Title: "Donor insemination families: a study of the impact of disclosure versus Presenting: Dr. Tabitha Freeman 4th July- 2011 , Stockholm, Sweden Title: "Trust, disclosure, and the welfare of donor conceived children" (poster presentation) Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction Presenting: John Appleby 4th July- 2011, Stockholm, Sweden Title:"Fathers in assisted reproduction families: Quality of parenting, Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction Presenting: Polly Casey 15th June 2011- Open University, Milton Keynes British Sociological Association Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference. Title: 'Disclosure decisions in families created by anonymous donor insemination: parents' and children's reflections at adolescence' Presenting: Dr Tabitha Freeman 19th May, 2011- Centre for Family Research, room 606 Bieothics Roundtable Members of the CFR and guests from other departments shared and discussed their work and interests in bioethics Guest Discussant: Professor Stuart Murray (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) 2nd April, 2011- Palais de Congres, Montreal. SRCD 2011 Biennial Meeting Title: 'The Influence of Micro- and Macro-level Family Characteristics on Children's Theory-of-mind Development' Presenting: Dr Claire Hughes 2nd April, 2011- Palais de Congres, Montreal. SRCD 2011 Biennial Meeting Title: 'Links between Maternal Depression and Parental Self-Efficacy and Satisfaction and Preschool Executive Function' Presenting: Dr Claire Hughes 1st April, 2011- Palais de Congres, Montreal. SRCD 2011 Biennial Meeting Title: 'Does Positive Parenting Break the Link Between Maternal Depression and Children's Lonliness? Findings from Age 2 to 6' Presenting: Gabriela Roman 31st March, 2011- Palais de Congres, Montreal. SRCD 2011 Biennial Meeting Title: 'Theory of Mind at the Movies: A Silent Film Measure of Theory of Mind in Late Childhood and Adolescence' Presenting: Rory Devine 31st March, 2011- Palais de Congres, Montreal. SRCD 2011 Biennial Meeting Title: 'Linking Theory-of-Mind Skills and Responses to Rule-Breaking by In-group and Out-group Members: Considerations for Bystanders' Presenting: Dr Claire Hughes March, 2011- University of Manchester, Manchester Museum. Title: 'Researching lesbian and gay family life: A retrospective.' Invited presentation to conference on “Same-sex marriage: Before and after”, , . Presenting: Dr Susan Golombok 10th February, 2011- Addenbrooke's Clinical School, Lecture Theatre 2 Title: 'Oops, I Forgot to Have a Baby!' Co organisers: Irenee Daly (CFR) & Anastasia Theodosiou (Clinical medicine, Facilitated by Irenee Daly and in association with the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproductive Forum and the Anne McLaren memorial Fund. 1st February, 2011- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Title: 'Are the Kids Alright?' Presenting: Helen Statham and Sarah Jennings February, 2011- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. Title: 'All shapes and sizes: The impact of assisted reproductive technologies on the family.' Invited presentation to conference on Clinical and Developmental Implications of Assisted Reproductive Technology. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok 5th January, 2011- Fertility 2011 Conference at The CCD, Dublin. Title: 'Tick-tock-do women understand their biological clock? Explaining why so many women are postponing motherhood and relying on reproductive technologies.' Presenting: Irenee Daly November, 2010- Munich. Title: 'New families, old values: Parenting and child development in new family forms.' Keynote lecture at conference on “Attachment: Couples, sexuality and children Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok November, 2010- London. Title: 'Assisted reproduction and the family: Surrogacy, egg donation and donor insemination.' Invited presentation to Delegation from the Norwegian Department of Health. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok November, 2010- London. Title: 'Assisted reproduction and the family' Invited presentation to public debate on “Making babies in the 21st Century: The rise of assisted reproductive technologies' Hosted by the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and the Guardian newspaper. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok October, 2010- Festival of Ideas, University of Cambridge. Title: “New family forms” Presentation in session on “Good Parenting: An evidence-based perspective”. , . Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok October, 2010- Luxembourg. Title: "Follow-up of children conceived by assisted reproduction: parent-child relationships and children’s wellbeing.” Invited presentation to Conference on Assisted Reproduction. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok October, 2010- Cambridge Title: 'What to do with qualitative data?' CFR methods workshop Presenting: Dr. Tabitha Freeman 17th- 19th September 2010: CFR is hosted 'Reproductive Donation: Practices, Policies, and Bioethics' workshop as part of the Wellcome Grant in Bioethics. September, 2010- New York. Title: “Parenting: What really counts?” Invited lecture at UBS Bank, September, 2010- New York. Title: “Assisted reproduction and the family”. Invited presentation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok September, 2010- New York. Title: “Ethical considerations in research on children who are unaware of their donor conception.” Invited paper to Regulatory and Ethics Workshop, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok September, 2010 - 'Voices of Children', Dublin. Title: 'My Family - children and young adults talking about their lives with lesbian and gay parents'. Presenting: Helen Statham. July, 2010- 21st Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) in Lusaka, Zambia. July, 2010- 21st Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) in Lusaka, Zambia. July, 2010- Cambridge Enterprise & Technology Club.
Hosted by Dr. Tabitha Freeman and the Centre for Family Research June, 2010- European Society of Human Genetics, Gothenburg. Title: 'Transitions between research and clinical practice: families' experiences in a gene-hunting study'. Presenting: Helen Statham. June, 2010- London. Title: “All shapes and sizes: The impact of assisted reproductive technologies on the family.” Invited presentation to All Bar None, London Women’s Network, UBS Bank. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok June, 2010- CRFR International Conference 'Changing Families in a Changing World', University of Edinburgh. Title: " Secrecy versus disclosure within families created by gamete donation: effects of parent psychological well-being, parent-child relationships and children's psychological well-being." Presenting: Lucy Blake April, 2010- London. Title: “Donor gametes and the family unit” Invited paper presented at seminar on Genes and Parenting: Implications for Policy. Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok March, 2010- New York. Title: “ART families: Hopes and fears over 30 years.” Presentation to Newnham College Alumni. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok March, 2010- New York. Title: “Attachment relationships in families created by assisted reproductive technologies.” Invited lecture at Department of Psychology, The New School. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok March 2010- New York. Title: “Psychosocial research on ART families: The state of the ART” Invited presentation to American Society of Reproductive Medicine Mental Heath Group. Presenting: Prof. Susan Golombok To view our Annual Report click here |
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