TCRU researches children, families and social change. Our work focuses on inequality, migration, gender, parenting and diverse families, and on connecting research to policy, practice and public understanding.
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Care-experienced young people are more likely to face mental health challenges – but are poor outcomes inevitable?
TCRU’s Veena Meetoo & @easprecher.bsky.social explore how caregiving can support wellbeing, identity & long-term networks of care.
Watch: bit.ly/4vrdS8C
@uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social
UCL Thomas Coram Research Unit
Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared research on family life, public services, care, migration, early years & inequality.
The thread running through it: research is most useful when people can find it, understand it & use it.
That’s why we created our Policy & Expertise Hub: tinyurl.com/yc3rz3cy
Great to see TCRU colleagues contributing to international work on leave policies, care and gender equality.
For more on TCRU research in this area, read our case study on parental leave reform: bit.ly/4sOhSyr
Happening tomorrow: @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social launches Esther’s Army. A timely discussion on gender, religion and political power.
New report from @smfthinktank.bsky.social explores child food insecurity in the UK.
TCRU’s Fair Food Futures project contributes evidence on why responses need local coordination, community food support and wider advice beyond food provision.
More about the project: bit.ly/3S1y1DQ
@ioe.bsky.social
How can local areas help families access support they're entitled to?
In The MJ, @clairelcameron.bsky.social shares what councils can learn from embedding welfare advice into trusted health & family services.
A practical route into child poverty prevention, early help & Family Hubs bit.ly/4uDqM3u
What does it mean to belong in academia?
In Claiming Space, Dr Amena Amer draws on interviews & participant photography to explore the experiences of Muslim women students & academic staff in UK universities.
bit.ly/3RWr07d
Marshgate Building, UCL East
Runs until 18 June
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Join us tomorrow for Care Leaves and Care Time for All, with Peter Moss, @andreadoucet.bsky.social, Joan Tronto & Nancy Folbre exploring how care leave can be reimagined for children, adults & older people. There's still time to book: bit.ly/4vrxeur
@umassdonahue.bsky.social
@umnpolisci.bsky.social
Good research does more than sit in publications.
It can help clarify problems, challenge assumptions and bring lived experience into policy conversations.
Our Policy & Expertise Hub brings together examples of how TCRU research speaks to policy and practice: tinyurl.com/yc3rz3cy
Why has “media bias” become a powerful political idea?
This week’s seminar looks at the history of “liberal media bias” in the US. What changes when we see journalism as part of politics and not separate from it?
28 May, 12–1pm, Gordon Sq
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@ioe.bsky.social
UCL Thomas Coram Research Unit
UCL Thomas Coram Research Unit
UCL Thomas Coram Research Unit
Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty. At the same time, around £24.1bn in benefits and social tariffs is expected to go unclaimed in 2025-26. ...
Care doesn’t look the same for everyone. This project shines a light on the complex relationships that shape the mental health of care-experienced young people, uncovering the different pathways through which support, connection, and environment can influence long-term wellbeing. Visit our website to watch the video in full and to discover UCL's strategy for Mental Health & Wellbeing. https://bit.ly/4uvYMy5
A.J. Bauer will track the rightward shift of structural media criticism in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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How do women become the political backbone of the Christian Right?
Join TCRU’s @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social for the launch of Esther’s Army, based on 10+ years of research into the women organising, mobilising and reshaping American politics.
2 Jun, 17:30, Gordon Sq.
Book now: bit.ly/4nAdpy6
UCL Thomas Coram Research Unit
Key results presentation of cost action @leave-policies.bsky.social
Margaret O'Brien & Alison Koslowski @tcru-ucl.bsky.social jirina Kocourkova, @jlammit.bsky.social, Gudny Eydal, @cassandraengeman.bsky.social
Food insecurity remains a major challenge in Britain 🍽️
We're calling on Government to:
📚 Introduce free school meals auto-enrolment
🏪 Tackle food deserts
💷 Tax incentives for food donation
Read more ⬇️
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