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Title: How Families Matter for Social and Emotional Outcomes of 9-Year-Old Children and Growing Up in Ireland Policy Forum, with An Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny T.D., and Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Ms. Frances Fitzgerald T.D.

Date: Thursday 8th March 2012
Time: 11.30am – 14.00pm
Venue: Coach House, Dublin Castle

The Growing Up in Ireland study team cordially invites you to the launch of its latest report followed by Growing Up in Ireland – A Policy Forum, with An Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny, T.D. and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Ms. Frances Fitzgerald, T.D.

Report Launch:The latest in a series of research reports from the study, Growing Up in Ireland – How Families Matter for Social and Emotional Outcomes of 9-Year-Old Children, will be launched by Ms. Frances Fitzgerald T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.

Policy Forum: The report launch will be followed by a policy forum on issues arising from the Growing Up in Ireland study. The forum will be addressed by members of the Study Team, Senior Policy Makers, An Taoiseach, Mr Enda Kenny T.D. and Minister Frances Fitzgerald T.D.

Detailed schedule to follow.

RSVP: Claire Delaney at GUIlaunch@esri.ie by Monday 5th March 2012

Growing Up in Ireland is a Government study. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is funding it in association with the Department of Social Protection and the Central Statistics Office. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is overseeing and managing the study, which is being carried out by a consortium of researchers led by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Trinity College Dublin.
 
 

Date: Thursday 26 January 2012
Time: 10am to 2pm
Location: TCD School of Nursing & Midwifery, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2
Further information: www.childrensresearchnetwork.org

Event Summary:
There is a growing body of qualitative research data being made available in data archives in both Ireland and the UK. Examples of Irish qualitative data currently available for further analysis include Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) and Life Histories and Social Change in 20th Century Ireland. The Timescapes Research Programme, at the University of Leeds, hosts a wide variety of economic and social research data relevant to child and family researchers; data which is available to researchers in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Access to this data provides researchers with greater opportunities to explore the issues that affect children, their families and their communities and which may ultimately contribute to informing children's policy. In this the second master class of the Children's Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland, participants will learn about the various qualitative datasets that are publicly-available for research purposes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Key speakers:

• Dr Jane Gray from NUI Maynooth will explain the background to the establishment of Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA). She will look at the processes and procedures involved in lodging and accessing data in the archive and the criteria for assessing access requests.
• Brian Merriman from the Children’s Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin will provide details of the Growing Up in Ireland qualitative data available from IQDA, and will discuss his experience of preparing and lodging the GUI data in the archive.
• Dr Tara Murphy, as research manager for Childhood Development Initiative (CDI), Tara was responsible for preparing CDI qualitative evaluation data for lodging with IQDA; Tara will discuss her experience of this process.
• Brenda Phillips from the Timescapes Research Programme at the University of Leeds will describe the type of data that is collected and how researchers can access this data.

Date: Thursday 1st December 2011
Location: D4 Berkeley Hotel, Lansdowne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Further information: www.growingup.ie

The conference will be opened by Ms. Frances Fitzgerald T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, who will launch some Key Findings from the recently completed Infant Cohort (at 3 years)  as well as some of the first longitudinal findings from the study.

The Keynote speaker is Professor Edward Melhuish, Professor of Human Development at Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is an internationally recognised expert in the study of child development and childcare and has extensive experience with longitudinal studies. His research interests include child development, parenting, childcare and early education.
A total of 24 papers will be presented at the conference by researchers from a wide range of third level and research institutions. These will be based on data from Growing Up in Ireland’s Child and Infant Cohorts and will focus on a range of topics including health, parenting, education and childcare.
 
 

Date: Thursday 22nd September 2011
Venue: Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Further information: www.growingup.ie
 
Summary: This latest research from Growing Up in Ireland draws on in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with 120 nine-year-old children and their parents. These families are participating in and were selected from the larger Growing Up in Ireland quantitative study which is tracking the lives of 8,500 nine-year-old children.
 
Workshop on GUI Data at IQDA: The event will also mark the archiving and availability to researchers of the Anonymised Qualitative Data from Wave 1 of the Child Cohort now lodged in the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA). The initial launch event will be followed at 11.30am by a workshop session outlining the method used in the data collection for this phase of the study as well as a presentation on how researchers can access and use the data.
 
RSVP: Elizabeth Ryan at gui_qual@esri.ie by Monday 19th September 2011
Growing Up in Ireland is a Government study. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is funding it in association with the Department of Social Protection and the Central Statistics Office. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is overseeing and managing the Study, which is being carried out by a consortium of researchers led by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Trinity College Dublin.
 
 

Date: 16th and 17th September 2011
Location: Parade Tower, Kilkenny
Further information: http://oralhistorynetwork.wordpress.com/ 
Speakers include: Alistair Thomson (author of Moving Stories and Anzac Memories) and Guy Beiner (author of Remembering the Year of the French).
 
Discussions with oral history practitioners on:
- the practice, status and financing of oral history in Ireland
- the ethics of oral history projects
- the need for an oral history archive.
 
Workshops: Doing Oral History and Using Oral History for Research Purposes.
 
 

There is an interesting discussion about securing ethical approval for social network research on orgtheory.net
http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/unusual-irb-requests/#comments