Events

The Child's Ecology of Relations

This is the first in a series of five full day seminars to be held by the Child's Curriculum Committee, a group concerned with early child development and education. The seminar series, entitled The Well Connected Child: developing a relational approach for work with young children, aims to share knowledge between lead practitioners, managers and policy makers from different agencies working with early years in Scotland. The series will focus on the natural abilities of young children and what they and their families need for them to develop well, hurdles to best practice and what changes are needed in governance to implement well-conceived policy principles.

This first seminar will be led by Professor Colwyn Trevarthen of the University of Edinburgh.

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Event Date: 
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Event Host / Organisation: 
The Child's Curriculum Committee
Event Location: 
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde

Sentencing Decisions, Offender Experience and the Use of Electronic Monitoring

Recent developments in England and Wales propose one vision for the future use of Electronic Monitoring. But can EM be used in more productive, constructive and imaginative ways? Does EM have to be a cynical way of emptying prisons or can it be used in ways which are supportive of rather than antithetical to traditional values such as judicial independence, fair process and rehabilitation?

Speaking at the event will be Michiel Van der Veen, a Criminal Court Judge in the Netherlands who has been responsible for the re-design of probation supervision. He is currently responsible for the professionalisation of Electronic Monitoring in the Netherlands. Also speaking will be Delphine Vanhaelemeesch of the University of Ghent, who will explain her research into the impact of electronic monitoring on the lives of offenders and their families in Belgium.

The event will be chaired by Sheriff Tom Welsh QC, Director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland.

Event Date: 
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Event Host / Organisation: 
University of Strathclyde Humanities & Social Sciences
Event Location: 
Court-Senate Suite Lecture Theatre, Collins Building, Richmond Street, Glasgow
Relevent Web Links (Optional): 
http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/faculties/hass/law/clcj/SentencingandEM2page.pdf

Jean Kilbourne event

Online pornography, sexting and its impact on the behaviour of young people is a growing concern, leading to suggestions it may increase incidents of sexually inappropriate behaviour, dating violence and sexual bullying. But in a world that is increasingly technology led, how do we help young people make sense of imagery that reinforces potentially harmful and negative stereotypes of what it means to be a man or woman in the 21st century?

Jean Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and for her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. In the late 1960s she began her exploration of the connection between advertising and several public health issues, including violence against women, eating disorders, and addiction, and launched a movement to promote media literacy as a way to prevent these problems. A radical and original idea at the time, this approach is now mainstream and an integral part of most prevention programmes. She is the creator of the renowned Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women film series and the author of the award-winning book Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids (with Diane E. Levin).

Full details of how to apply for a place at this event will be announced shortly.

Event Date: 
Thursday, August 22, 2013 to Friday, August 23, 2013
Event Host / Organisation: 
Violence Reduction Unit
Event Location: 
Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh