Joint One-day Conference
9.30 am - 4 pm, Friday 29 September 2000
The Big Issue Conference Centre, College Street, Glasgow
A major one-day conference organised by the University of Glasgow and Children in Scotland that disseminated recent research findings on the role that violence plays in the everyday lives of girls and young women (aged 12-18 years) in the UK.
Despite increasing concern about the violent behaviour of girls and young women, little is actually known about their attitudes and experiences of violence. Drawing on recent ESRC funded research, key speakers discussed how violence features in the lives of girls and young women across the UK. In doing so, they provided information about young women’s pathways into violence; how they use violence; how they deal with potentially violent situations; and how they desist from using violence. The data presented challenged some of the traditional thinking about violence and provided a basis to explore the implications of the research for policy and practice.
Who Attended?
This conference was attended by researchers, academics, local authority elected members, as well as senior policy makers, managers and practitioners working with children and young people in the following areas: social work, education, youth work, community education, child protection, youth justice, probation services and adolescent mental health.
Highlights of the programme included:
Chair: Professor Betsy Stanko, Director of ESRC Violence Research Programme, Royal Holloway University of London
Girls' Lives in Context - Dr Anne Worrall, Department of Criminology, Keele University
A View from the Girls: Exploring Violence and Violent Behaviour - Dr Michèle Burman, Dr Jane Brown, and Susan Batchelor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Glasgow; Dr Kay Tisdall, Policy and Research Manager Children in Scotland, Department of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh
The Edinburgh
Study of Youth Transitions and Crime - Susan McVie and
Dr Lesley McAra, Centre for Law and Society, University of
Edinburgh
Physical
and Sexual Violence Amongst Children in Residential Settings:
Exploring Girls’ Experiences and Perspectives - Christine
Barter, NSPCC, London
Inter-Group
and Inter-Racial Violence - Ian Toon, Vauxhall Centre
for the Study of Crime, University of Luton
The
Violence Resilient School: Girls’ Experiences - Institute
of Education, University of London
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