| Plenary
speakers
Friday
9 August
Mirjam Kalland , Ph.D., Researcher, Save the
Children, Finland
Title: Risk and protective factors for children in
foster care: a systemic approach (in PDF-format)
Mirjam
Kalland has ten years experience from working clinically
with families at risk. Her current research focuses on risk
and protective factors for children in foster care from a
systemic perspective and on intergenerational transmissions
of parenting and attachment representations among both
biological and foster parents to children in care.
Toril
Havik, Chief Psychologist of Center of Child Welfare
Research, University of Bergen, Norway
Title: A Child's voyage into foster care - needs,
thoughts and feelings
Toril
Havik is a clinical child psychologist and senior researcher
at the Center of Child Welfare Research, University of
Bergen, Norway. She has broad experience as therapist for
foster-children, and advisor for foster-parents and child
protection workers. She has done research on different
aspects of foster-care.
Saturday
10 August
Ingrid
Höjer, Researcher, Department of Social Work, Gothenburg
University, Sweden
Title: What impact has fostering on family relations
in the foster family? (in PDF-format)
Ingrid
Höjer is lecturer and researcher in social work at the
Department of Social Work, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
She has experience from many years of social work, both with
young people with social problem, foster children and foster
families. Her dissertation deals with family relations
within the foster family. She is now engaged in a new study
focused on the impact of foster care on biological children
of foster carers.
Olga Zviaguina, Dean, State Pedagogical University of
Karelia, Russia
Title: The meaning of a family for children from care
institutions (in PDF-format)
Olga Zviaguina is a teacher in State Pedagogical
University of Karelia and since 1997 has been researching
values and moral development of deprived teenagers. Her
special concern are children from orphanages, their moral
values, interests, life perspectives and their adjustment to
the society. Olga Svjagintseva has published several
articles about her subject, mostly on Russian language.
Sunday 11 August
Malcolm Hill Professor, Director of the Center for he
Child &Society, University of Glasgow, UK
Title: Young people in foster care: Laying the
foundations for adulthood
Malcolm Hill was a children's social worker in London for
ten years. For the last 20 years he has been working as a
lecturer and researcher at Edinburgh and Glasgow
Universities in Scotland. His particular research interests
have included children in foster and residential care and
who are adopted. He is currently the Director of the Center
for the Child & Society, which carries out research and
consultancy related to children's rights, child welfare and
children and crime. He is the Commissioning Editor of the
journal, Adoption & Fostering.
Melina Voipio, Dramaturgic, Finland
Title: How to grow up to be a subject in your own
life
Melina Voipio is dramaturgic as her profession and has
Master of Theatre and Drama. She knows child welfare closely
from her own experiences.
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