8th International Foster Care Research Conference | Siegen 17-18th of September 2015
16th of September 2015 |
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20.00h | Welcome Dinner |
Venue: | N.N. |
17th of September 2015 |
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8.30h | Welcome Coffee & Registration |
9.00h 9.30h |
Welcome and Opening |
10.15h 10.45h |
Coffee break |
11.30h |
Presentation: Foster Care, Diversity, Difference and Belonging Speaker: Ann Phoenix, Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London |
12.30h | Lunch break |
13.30h | Parallel Working Groups: Session 1-4 |
English Track: Session 1-3 | |
Session 1
Chair: Dirk Schäfer, University of Siegen | Development of Foster Care |
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Speaker
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Title |
Roger Bullock / Dartington Research Unit | Planning foster care services |
Judith Pierlings / University of Siegen |
Kinship Care in Germany |
Christina S. Plafky / REES Centre, University of Oxford |
Developing Research-Mindedness across a foster care organization |
Session 2
Chair: Hans Grietens, University of Groningen | Voice of the Child |
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Nuria Fuentes-Peláez / University of Barcelona M. Angeles Balsells / University of Lleida Crescencia Pastor / University of Barcelona |
Listen to the voice of the children in the decision making: a challenge of the Child Protection System in Spain |
Daniela Reimer / University of Siegen |
Constructions and balances of normality of young people from foster care |
Claire Cameron / University College London |
Towards a theory of upbringing for children in foster care in Europe |
Session 3
Chair: Cinzia Canali, Fondazione Zancan | Birth Family and Contact |
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Carmen Hofer-Temmel / Karl-Franzens-University Graz Christina Rothdeutsch-Granzer / Karl-Franzens-University Graz |
Bridges between Families. Contact and its meaning for foster children, foster parents and birth families |
Séverine Euillet / University Paris-Nanterre Hélène Join-Lambert / University Paris-Nanterre |
Maintaining child-parent relationship in long term foster placements: a matter of representations |
Paulo Delgado / InED, Escola Superior de Educação do Porto João M. S. Carvalho / CICS.NOVA, Instituto Universitário da Maia Vânia S. Pinto / InED, REES Centre, University of Oxford |
What diversity means for contact in foster care? |
German Track: Session 4 |
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Session 4
Chair: Klaus Wolf, University of Siegen |
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Maria Mögel / Marie Meierhofer Institut für das kleine Kind, Zürich | Zugehörigkeitserleben in den Narrativem fremdplatzierter Vorschulkinder |
Karin Werner /Züricher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften |
Die subjektive Perspektive von Jugendlichen auf ihre Pflegekindsituation |
Thomas Swiderek / Bergische Universität Wuppertal |
Wie erleben Pflegekinder ihren Alltag in der Pflegefamilie?
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15.30h | Coffee, Tea and Cake |
16.00h | Parallel Working Groups: Session 5-8 |
English Track: Session 5-7 | |
Session 5
Chair: Carme Montserrat, University of Girona | Diversity |
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Speaker | Title |
Cinzia Canali / Fondazione Zancan Tiziano Vecciato/ Fondazione Zancan |
The development of foster care during the crisis: challenges for foster families and social workers |
Kirti Zeijlmans/ University of Groningen |
An overview of matching decision making literature |
María Teresa Díaz Tártalo / University San Pablo |
The motivations for fostering in a sample of non parental foster families from Madrid
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Session 6
Chair: Carolin Ehlke & Anke Kuhls, University of Hildesheim | Education |
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Nikki Luke / REES Centre, University of Oxford | The educational progress of looked after children in England: linking care and educational data |
Anat Zeira / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yifat Mor-Salow / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Transition to higher Education Care Leavers in Israel |
Patricia McNamara / La Trobe University Andrew Harvey / La Trobe University Lisa Anrewartha / La Trobe University |
Care leaver transition to university in Australia: Applying local and international evidence to improve participation and retention |
Session 7
Chair: Roger Bullock, Dartington Research Unit | Return and Break Down |
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Dirk Schäfer / University of Siegen | Factor birth parents. Special perspective on foster care |
Claire Cameron /University College London Clara Bombach /Zurich University of Applied Science Renate Stohler / Zürich University of Applied Science Andy Jespersen / University of Siegen |
Processes leading to breakdown of foster care placements |
João M. S. Carvalho / CICS.NOVA, Instituto Universitário da Maia Paulo Delgado / InED, Escola Superior de Educação do Porto Vânia S. Pinto / InED, REES Centre, University of Oxford |
How students evaluate and decide in child abuse situations, and the need to study criteria for removal and conditions for reunification |
German Track: Session 8 | |
Session 8
Chair: Klaus Wolf, University of Siegen |
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Annemaria Köhler, M.A. / FernUniversität Hagen |
Pflegeelternschulungen: Nützlich oder hinderlich? |
Corinna Petri / Universität Siegen | Perspektivklärung und Übergangsgestaltung in der Bereitschaftspflege |
Yvonne Gassmann / PflegekinderAktion Schweiz |
Verletzbarkeit durch Elternschaft
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18.00h | Closing |
20.00h | Conference Dinner at "Restaurant Brasserie" |
18th of September 2015 |
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9.00h | Parallel Working Groups: Session 9-12 |
11.00h | Coffee break |
11.30h |
Final Presentation: Current developments, challenges and tasks in Foster Care Research Speaker: June Thoburn / University of East Anglia |
12.30h |
Closing |