Prof. Angela Abela from the Department of Child and Family Studies was invited to give the introductory keynote presentation at an international conference held at the UNESCO Child and Family Centre, University of Galway in Ireland together with her colleagues Dr Harriett Churchill, University of Sheffield and Dr Carmel Devaney from the UNESCO Child and Family Centre.
The 11th biennial International Conference entitled Promoting Equality through Family Support examined how social exclusion, discrimination, poverty, migration, displacement and the accompanying trauma can impact parenting and family life.
The title of the keynote was Family Support, Policy and Practice: a Multidimensional Conceptual and Developmental Approach to Promoting Equality which is based on their paper recently published in Children and Youth Services Review.