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Ginny Morrow: Short profile/CV/biog for Panel Members

Research interests: sociology and history of childhood; ethics and methods ofresearch with children; child labour and childrens work; childrens and young

peoples perspectives on their environments family and neighbourhoods, socialcapital; childrens rights and participation

HIGHER EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS1982 Open University Social Sciences Foundation Course D102 Pass1983-1987 University of Cambridge, Wolfson College: BA (Hons) Part I

Oriental Studies (Hindi & Indian Studies); Part II SocialAnthropology (Class 2:1)

1988-1992 University of Cambridge, Newnham College: Ph.D. Faculty ofSocial & Political Sciences A sociological study of the economicroles of children, with particular reference to Birmingham and

Cambridgeshire.

PROJECT GRANTS2008-2010 The ethics guidebook: an online training resource and practical

guide to ethics processes and procedures for social research.ESRC. Principal Investigator: Janet Boddy. Co-investigator: VMorrow.

2006-2007 Work, family and leisure in adult life: understanding the aspirationsof eleven-year-olds through their writing about the future. TheNuffield Foundation. Co-applicant with Dr Jane Elliott, CLS. PilotProject,

2003- 2004 Evaluation of Childcare Partnership Managers,Dept of Work &

Pensions, Grantholder: F Smith, PI: John Barker; Namedresearcher: V Morrow2003 Supporting children: exploring gender differences. A critical review

paper. Funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Grant holder andPI: V.Morrow

2002/3 The impact of out of school care on children and families DfES.Grantholder: F Smith, PI: John Barker; Named researcher: VMorrow

2002 Listening to children: Children, ethics and social research revisingand co-editing Alderson, P. (1995) publication, funded by R & DSection, Barnardo's. Grantholder: V Morrow

2002 The ethics of social research with children: a feasibility study for a

voluntary sector research ethics committee, funded by R & DSection, Barnardos. Grantholder1999-2001 Dr Gill Dunne, Dr Shirley Prendergast & Dr V Morrow: Making it

through: a comparative study of transition for lesbian and gayyoung people. ESRC project grant. Co-grantholder.

1995-1997 Children's definitions of family and kinship, funded by JosephRowntree Foundation. Principal Investigator & Co-Grantholder (withProf MPM Richards)

EMPLOYMENT2006- Reader in Childhood Studies, Institute of Education, University ofLondon

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2004-2006 Lecturer in Education, ECPE, Institute of Education, University ofLondon.

2002-2004 Research Lecturer, Dept of Health and Social Care/Centre forChild-Focused

Research, Brunel University.1998-2002 Senior Research Fellow, Gender Institute, London School of

Economics and Political Science. Research Project on Children,Young People, Health and Social Capital for the Health EducationAuthority/Eleanor Rathbone Trust.. Grantholder: Prof H Moore.Principal investigator: V.Morrow

2001-2002 Tutorial Fellow/Course Convenor Department of Sociology, LondonSchool of Economics, (0.5 fte)

1995.1997 Senior Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, Social &Political Sciences Faculty, University of Cambridge: JosephRowntree Foundation funded project.

1995.1998 Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, SPS Faculty,University of Cambridge. Preparing a literature review onTransitions to Adulthood as part of an interdisciplinary projectfunded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Grantholder: M.Richards.PI: V.Morrow

CO-EDITOR ofChildhood: A journal of global child research Published by Sage

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:In press 2008: Responsible children and childrens responsibilities? Siblingcaretaking and babysitting by school-age children. In Jo Bridgeman, Craig Lindand Heather Keating (eds) Responsibility, Law and the Family. Ashgate, London.

(2006) Understanding gender differences in context: implications for youngchildrens everyday lives in V. Morrow & P.Connolly (eds) Special issue,Genderand Ethnicity in Children's Everyday Lives, Children & Society. Vol 20, pp92-104.

(2004) Children's 'social capital': implications for health and well-being HealthEducation 104, No 4, 211-225.

(2001) Young people's explanations and experiences of social exclusion:retrieving Bourdieu's concept of social capital. International Journal of Sociologyand Social Policy, Vol 21, Nos 4/5/6, 37-63.

(1999) We are people too: Childrens perspectives on rights and decision-making in England. International Journal of Childrens Rights, 7, 149-170.

(1999) Conceptualising social capital in relation to the well-being of children andyoung people: a critical review The Sociological Review, 47, 4, 744-765.

(1996) Rethinking childhood dependency: children's contribution to the domesticeconomy in The Sociological Review, 44, 1, 58-77.

With P.Alderson (2004) Ethics, social research and consulting with children andyoung people. Barnardo's, Barkingside.

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(1994) Responsible children? Aspects of children's work and employmentoutside school in contemporary UK in B.Mayall (ed) Children's childhoods.Observed and experiencedLondon, Falmer Press.

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