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Organisers: Professor Peter Kraftl and Professor Sarah Mills (SSH, Geography & Environment)

The aim of this seminar is to bring together colleagues from across campus working on children and young people to discuss and create an interdisciplinary network of researchers working in this space. We know that there is lots of excellent work going on across campus and across disciplines, and we would like to find a way to bring colleagues together to discuss and develop that work even further.

Although for discussion at the seminar, the aim of the Network would be to create an inclusive, generative, interdisciplinary space for the discussion and progression of research about children and young people. The Network could include: regular informal meetings/sandpits; a strand for doctoral researchers/ECRs across campus to come together to share research/challenges; a mailing list (with a key aim to support responses to funding opportunities, requests for partners, opportunities for joint responses to eg Government inquiries).

Importantly, the aim of the seminar is not only to bring together colleagues in this space but to progress with a clear plan and timeframe for the establishment of a network and longer-term goals.

Please note that we are running this as an in-person only event, given the nature of the networking and discussion activities we are planning.

Seminar timetable

• 12pm-1pm: Lunch
• 1pm-1.15pm: Peter and Sarah introduce the concept for the Network, and aims of the seminar
• 1.15pm-2pm: ‘speed dating’ – introductions/networking
• 2pm-2.15pm: Short break
• 2.15pm-3.30pm: World Café tables discussing: key research themes; potential events; PhD/ECR network/support; approach to funding; outputs/impacts (suggest we invite participants from different Schools to act as facilitators, whilst Peter and Sarah circulate to hear different conversations)
• 3.30pm-4pm Plenary (reporting back, closing, next steps) – Peter and Sarah to lead
• 4pm: Close

Arrivals from 11.45am for a 12pm start.