Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
The Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) generates high quality research on families and relationships and disseminates it widely. For further information on CRFR please look at our website. On this website you can find information about our research, our staff, our publications and events, as well as links to other research centres and organisations with an interest in families and relationships.
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Can we put the 'poverty of aspiration' myth to bed now?
(Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2017-12)This briefing paper uses responses from parents and children in the birth cohort study Growing Up in Scotland to dispel the myth of the ‘poverty of aspiration’ widely used in education and policy circles in Scotland and beyond. -
Love, fatherhood and possibilities for social change
(Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2017-11-08)This briefing focuses on how fathers experience loving relationships with their children. It identifies some cultural and class differences between involved fathers in Scotland and in Romania. -
CRFR briefing 89: Spaces for sharing? Challenges of providing emotional support online
(Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2017-10)As the Internet becomes an ever more important part of our daily lives, organisations providing emotional support through traditional channels (such as face-to-face and telephone) are moving online, or at least anticipating ... -
Listening to young children: meaningful participation in early childhood settings
(Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2017-06-15)This briefing reports on research that looked at how listening to children was put into practice in one early childhood setting. It provides questions to help early years practitioners reflect on and deepen their participatory ... -
Changing National Policy on Violence Affecting Children: An impact assessment of UNICEF and partners' multi-country study on the drivers of violence affecting children in Peru
(University of Edinburgh, 2017-06-14)This report is an impact assessment of research carried out by UNICEF and partners, the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence affecting Children in Peru. The Multi-Country Study aimed to increase understanding of ... -
Implementing children and young people’s participation in decision-making: The role of non-governmental organisations
(Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2017-03)This briefing addresses how children and young people’s participation in decision-making at the community level can be meaningfully supported by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), using research findings from Tamil ... -
Children and young people’s participation in policy-making: sharing practice
(Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2014-02)The participation of children and young people is now widely accepted, demonstrated by examples of children and young people’s positive engagement in policy and practice (see CRFR briefing 1 Children and Young People’s ... -
Children and young people’s participation in policy-making: Making it meaningful, effective and sustainable
(Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2011-12)Children and young people’s participation is now a common policy and practice demand. Promoted by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), children and young people are increasingly involved in ... -
CRFR Newsletter January 2017
(Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2017-01)Includes articles on YEA (Young Edinburgh Action), CRFR International Conference, What Works Scotland, Digital Families, Women's whispers -
Children’s views on contact with non-resident fathers in the context of domestic abuse
(CRFR, 2016-05)The research was qualitative with separate in-depth interviews carried out with children and their resident mothers. A total of 18 children and 16 mothers participated. The age of child participants ranged from 8-14 years: ... -
Children's views on contact with non-resident fathers in the context of domestic abuse
(CRFR, 2016-05)In recent years the issue of children’s contact with non-resident parents when there are allegations of domestic abuse has been increasingly debated. Some commentators argue that in circumstances of domestic abuse, contact ... -
Face to Face: Relating to people with dementia until the end of life in care homes
(CRFR, 2016-12)People with advanced dementia can struggle to maintain relationships and connections. As a result they can become isolated or socially excluded, whether they live in their own home or in a care home. They can also struggle ... -
Young Edinburgh Action: Reinvigorating young people's participation in Edinburgh
(CRFR, 2016-09)Young Edinburgh Action (YEA) is an innovative approach to implementing the City of Edinburgh Council’s Young People’s Participation Strategy. It is informed by the views of young people and professionals, academic theory ... -
A 'pockets' approach to addressing financial vulnerability
(CRFR, 2016-03)This briefing paper outlines recent evidence on financial vulnerability among families in Scotland, and draws on the Healthier, Wealthier Children case study as an example of action that could help families both at risk ... -
Social assets, low income and child wellbeing
(CRFR, 2016-03)Social assets is a composite score that measures closeness and support from friends and family. Mothers having high levels of social assets removes the negative relationship between children’s social, emotional and behavioural ... -
Financial vulnerability, mothers' emotional distress and child wellbeing
(CRFR, 2016-03)Financial vulnerability is a broader measure of socioeconomic disadvantage than income poverty although there is overlap between the two. Financial vulnerability is associated with high emotional distress in mothers, which, ... -
Neuroscience, Policy and Family Life
(CRFR, 2016)Background: Research on the brain is increasingly drawn upon in policy-making and family services, with consequences for parenting advice and parenting practices. Especially in the early years of children's lives, infant ... -
South Asian women's experience of family abuse: The role of the husband's mother
(CRFR, 2016-02)This briefing explores South Asian women's experiences of family abuse, particularly the role of the husband's mother in these experiences. The author of PhD looked at abuse more generally in families and found that as ... -
Evaluating the Young Mothers' Service using contribution analysis: lessons learned
(CRFR, 2016-01)This briefing reports on an evaluation initiative conducted by the Early Intervention team of West Lothian Council, with support from CRFR. The briefing focuses on how this evaluation initiative worked for the Young Mothers’ ... -
CRFR Newsletter : September 2015
(CRFR, 2015-09)Newsletter sharing information about what's happening at CRFR
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