Raising Children on the Inside I’ve spent a lot of my time in prison this summer, playing with babies and chatting with their mums. There are six prison mother and baby units in the UK, and they are all different....
Early intervention (EI) is greatly concerned with the idea of ‘life chances’. This is the ‘good’ that EI seeks to provide for its citizens, and a fair distribution of life chances for children during the early years is seen as...
When deliberating on the many claimed benefits for early intervention services a number of ethical questions arise: - Why should the government invest in early intervention programmes? - Why is early intervention ‘right’? - Why is early intervention ‘good’? These...
On Wednesday 13th April I was fortunate enough to attend ‘Policing Pregnancy: A one-day conference on maternal autonomy, risk and responsibility’, held at the Royal College of Physicians, London. The conference examined current behavioral advice given to pregnant women –...
Motivation for inclusion: Macintyre’s book, After Virtue, is one of the most important texts in the revival of Virtue Ethics. In it, MacIntyre argues that it is only by looking at the past and examining how society has evolved that...
Motivation for inclusion: Moral Laboratories is Mattingly’s second book, and is the result of her ethnographic work with African-American families raising children in the face of poverty and chronic illness. Mattingly’s work is an excellent example of how an ethical...
Motivation for inclusion: This relatively short paper is an excellent introduction to the idea of ‘social biologies’. In it, Pickersgill explores the ‘social turn’ in biology, explaining how findings in the fields of epigenetics and neuroscience have come to blur...
How does spending the early years in prison impact upon a child’s life chances? And what are the alternatives? Prison Reform and the UK Government A sad but true fact is that last year there were 100 babies in our...
BeGOOD Project Lead
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Postdoctoral Researcher Citizens:EIE
Postdoctoral Researcher Mothers:EIE
Investigates the conceptualisation and enactment of ‘good practice’ in early intervention in psychosis services, from the perspectives of service users and clinicians
Postdoctoral Researcher Citizens:EIE
Investigates the political and ethical dimensions of early intervention in maternal and child development
DPhil Student
Research Assistant - Citizens:EIE
Will investigate young people’s moral attitudes to, and judgments about a range of early intervention strategies
Research Assistant Psychosis: EIE
Former DPhil Researcher Mothers:EIE
Research Assistant Citizens:EIE
DPhil Student Citizens:EIE
