Conference presentation – 21st April 2022
Helen and Rose presented the initial findings from their analysis exploring the association between paternal and maternal involvement, and attainment in the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile at age five.
For further details about the conference, see here
Conference presentation – 2nd September 2021
Helen presented a paper that shows how our measures of paternal childcare engagement were derived using survey data from the Millennium Cohort Study. We use these measures to explore what influences paternal engagement from nine months to eleven years post-birth. The presentation reflects on some of the first findings from this analysis.
We will use these measures in our forthcoming analysis to explore how they might affect children’s educational outcomes.
You can download the presentation slides here.
Helen was interviewed by Kate Bottley on BBC Sunday Morning live on 20th June 2021 (Father’s Day) about how fathers’ roles had changed over the last fifty years.
Watch the clip here:
Professor Jennifer Tomlinson (University of Leeds) speaks to Helen about her research on what enables or hinders fathers’ childcare involvement, and how ways of working and caring in a child’s pre-school years sets up a pattern of caregiving that persists as the child grows older. Helen reflects on her earlier research and introduces this new project on father involvement and children’s education.
For more details, see here.
Listen to the podcast here.
Helen presented the project plans to FLaG members in a work in progress workshop chaired by Professor Sarah Irwin (one of the project’s advisory board members). Questions around the mechanisms behind fathers’ parenting as well as accounting for cultural factors and school context in our analysis were issues that were discussed.
Workshop slides here.
