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Introducing Our Newest Public Engagement Fellow

Posted on January 14, 2010. Filed under: PE Fellowships, Uncategorized |

Dr Sue Milne

Researcher

Centre for Research on Families and Relationships

The University of Edinburgh

Sue Milne is a childhood sociologist with a specific interest in child-adult relations and relationships, including children’s participation in schools and in the adult world. She is based at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) which is a consortium research centre based at the University of Edinburgh, with partners at the University of Aberdeen,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University, UHI Millennium Institute and the University of Stirling. In addition to producing research relevant to key issues in families and relationships, the centre promotes and facilitates a network for all those with and interest in research on families and relationships. The centre aims to make research more accessible for use by policy makers, practitioners, research participants, academics and the wider public.

The aim of Sue’s Public Engagement Fellowship is to work with a local education authority at officer and school levels to use the GLOW Intranet to disseminate the findings from the ‘Having a Say at School Research Project’. The findings of this research project, which mapped and examined the workings of pupil councils in state and independent schools (primary, secondary and special) across Scotland, suggest that pupil councils would benefit from improved communications between pupils and with staff within and beyond individual schools. During her public Engagement Fellowship Sue will work together with pupils and staff to develop pupil council pages on GLOW over a number of months. The learning from this academic and local authority partnership will be applicable to other schools and local education authorities and enable  research knowledge to make long term impacts in the development of other areas of local authority policy and practice in addition to that of pupil councils.

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