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New Forms of Family: Risk, Intimacy and Relationships
a Seminar organised by the ESRC Social Contexts
and Responses to Risk Research Programme
Programme and Delegates
Speakers Notes
Photos from the Seminar
This seminar will examine how intimate relationships and
partnerships are changing under the impact of changes in employment, cultural
expectations and new directions in family policy. Professor
Jane Lewis from the Department of Social Policy at the London School of
Economics will present findings from her recent work on security and
uncertainty in partnering and intimate relationships. Professor
Carol Smart from the Department of Sociology, at the University of Manchester
will discuss her continuing research on commitment in gay relationships
and Civil Partnership.
The seminar is organised by the ESRC's Social Contexts and Responses
to Risk Programme (SCARR), which brings together sociologists, psychologists,
economists, experts on social policy, the media, socio-legal studies and
law and other social scientists to examine perceptions of and responses
to risk. The research covers sexual behaviour and partnering choices,
pensions and financial planning, industrial pollution, crime, transport
and environmental hazards. The network aims to contribute to public policy
by focusing on how people perceive and deal with risk and uncertainty
in everyday life settings, rather than the hypothetical contexts to which
social science theories often refer
Ms Victoria Macdonald, Social Affairs Editor at Channel 4, will chair
the event. We aim to attract an invited audience of approximately 80 guests
made up of civil servants, politicians, representatives of think tanks
and academics.
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