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Be Yourselves Project

Forging the Links between Child Psychotherapy and Virtual Reality.

Co-producing a child maintenance assessment tool for the Departments of Social Welfare in Ghana

Dr Ebenezer Cudjoe is engaged in a project to co-produce a child maintenance assessment tool to be used by social workers in Ghana. Funded by the University’s International Impact Fund, the project will develop a child maintenance specific tool in a context where majority of cases handled by social service organisations are related to the neglect of the financial needs of children.

Dr Cudjoe is working together with colleagues from the University of Ghana and Flinders University, Australia to co-produce this tool. A key part of the project is working together with social workers in the co-production, as part of a practice research methodology. A has provided inputs for the project.

Institutions and Infant Care: Foundling Hospitals and Residential Homes for Babies in Twentieth-Century Europe

Dr Katharina Rowold (ÌÇÐÄVlog) and Dr Niamh Cullen (QUB) lead an AHRC-funded project which explores the comparative history of foundling hospitals and residential institutions for babies in twentieth-century Europe and their meaning, then and now.

The project has several objectives. Firstly, it draws together a range of scholars from different national contexts to explore the diverse trajectories of residential infant institutions, examining the contexts that reinforced the role of such institutions as well as the forces that eventually underpinned their disappearance.

Secondly, it fosters interdisciplinary dialogue about the representation and memory of residential infant homes, and considers what is, or should be, the role of public history in the memory and history of these institutions. Thirdly, it provides a space for people who have experienced the contemporary care system in England to contribute their personal reflections to the project.