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 |
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9.00h 9.30h |
Welcome and Opening |
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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 | |
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Session 1
Chair: Dirk Schäfer, University of Siegen | Development of Foster Care |
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Speaker
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 |
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12.30h |
Closing |
