Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation: A Matter of Equality, Rights and Voice
Starts: 30 March 2012
A Conference for Young People, Practitioners and Policy Makers
Friday 30th March, 2012.
School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University (Glamorgan Building)
Co-hosted by:
Emma Renold (Cardiff University, Childhood Research Group)
and Keith Towler (Children’s Commissioner for Wales)
Booking Details
Please contact socsi-events@cf.ac.uk with any queries about the event.
Cost: Adults (£10), young people (no charge)
Further Information
Here is a bit more information about the day.
Full Event Programme - Available here
Full Workshop Programme - Available here
Event Poster - Available here
Below is the full programme of events for the day.
Programme
9.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.15 Introduction and Welcome (Emma Renold)
Growing up sexually as a children’s rights and equalities issue
- Keith Towler (Children’s Commissioner for Wales)
- Gwenda Thomas (Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services, Welsh Government)
10.15 - 12.00 What do we know about young sexualities and sexualisation?
Panel 1: Adult (s)experts
- Too much too soon? What kids tell us about ‘growing up sexually’? (Emma Renold, Cardiff University)
- Sexting , Sexualisation and Young People (Jessica Ringrose (IoE, University of London)
- Parents, sex and sexualisation (Sara Bragg, Open University)
15 minute break
Panel 2: Teen (s)experts
- The Domino Project: creating an SRE curriculum resource (Radyr Comprehensive)
- Where are the boys in ‘girl power’? (Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr)
- Diggon (Enough) – Drama performance addressing heteornormativity in schools (Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 13.45 Workshops
- Your Views: shaping the WAG cross-party group ‘Childhood, Sexuality, Sexualisation and Equalities’ (led by AM member Jocelyn Davies, Keith Towler and Emma Renold)
- Size matters: Can policy really change practice? (led by Anita Pilgrim and Sarah Oerton, Glamorgan University) - Using creative resources: an LGBT drama workshop (Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg ,Plasmawr)
- Fears on the frontline: teaching and learning SRE in schools (led by Cheryl Joscelyne, Senior Health Promotion Specialist)
- What’s it like to deliver a peer-led SRE lesson (Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr)
- Combatting young gender-based violence (Rebekah Burns, Cardiff Women’s Aid)
13.45 - 14.00 Break and refreshments
14.00 - 14.45 Workshops repeated
14.45 - 15.30 Onwards and outwards
Stakeholder panel: Christine Chapman (Chair of Children’s Committee), Jan Pickles (NSPCC), Cheryl Joscelyne, Siriol Burford (Deputy Head Teacher), 3 teen representatives.
Previous Childhood Research Group conference information can be accessed here.
Other information
Open To: Staff and Students