Social work with unmarried mothers and their children: Learning from the past
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Wed 27 May 26
12:00 - 13:00
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Online
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Event speaker
Professors Viviene (Viv) Cree and Robert (Bob) MacKenzie
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Event type
Lectures, talks and seminars
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Event organiser
Essex Business School
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Contact details
Melissa Tyler mjtyler@essex.ac.uk
This seminar is based on a project that has been a shared preoccupation for the last few years between Viviene Cree, Professor Emerita of Social Work at the University of Edinburgh, and Bob MacKenzie, Visiting Professor of Management Learning at the University of Chichester. Bob lived at a children’s home in Edinburgh in the 1940s and 50s.
Their talk, and the book it is based on, draws on his and other people’s reflections on this experience as well as on the life stories of – amongst others - a former housemother, now in her 90s, and two other former residents, now in older age. It contributes to the emerging ‘writing differently’ approach to research on organisations, and organised life.
Speakers
Viviene Cree is a Professor Emerita of Social Work Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Spanning a 40-year career, she has conducted research on a wide range of social work fields, often focusing on history, especially the lives of women and children. Her current research is on personal histories of migration, experiences of unmarried mothers in the 1940s and 50s, and the history of railway stations.
Co-author Bob MacKenzie is an editor and writer whose work explores the relationship between writing and conversation in academic practice. His work spans the public, private, voluntary and higher education sectors, and he has worked as a facilitator and researcher for government departments in the UK and internationally, international aid agencies, local authorities, NHS Trusts and GP practices, Social Services and Probation Departments, the civil service and Higher and Further Education Institutions. His collaboration with Viv draws on Bob’s personal experiences and reflections, and on other people’s life histories.
