Ginny Morrow: Short profile/CV/biog for Panel Members

Research interests: sociology and history of childhood; ethics and methods of

research with children; child labour and children’s work; children’s and young
people’s perspectives on their environments – family and neighbourhoods, social
capital; children’s rights and participation

HIGHER EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

1982 Open University Social Sciences Foundation Course D102 Pass
1983-1987 University of Cambridge, Wolfson College: BA (Hons) Part I
Oriental Studies (Hindi & Indian Studies); Part II Social
Anthropology (Class 2:1)
1988-1992 University of Cambridge, Newnham College: Ph.D. Faculty of
Social & Political Sciences ‘A sociological study of the economic
roles of children, with particular reference to Birmingham and
Cambridgeshire’.

PROJECT GRANTS
2008-2010 The ethics ‘guidebook’: an online training resource and practical
guide to ethics processes and procedures for social research.
ESRC. Principal Investigator: Janet Boddy. Co-investigator: V
Morrow.
2006-2007 Work, family and leisure in adult life: understanding the aspirations
of eleven-year-olds through their writing about the future. The
Nuffield Foundation. Co-applicant with Dr Jane Elliott, CLS. Pilot
Project,
2003- 2004 Evaluation of Childcare Partnership Managers,Dept of Work &
Pensions, Grantholder: F Smith, PI: John Barker; Named
researcher: V Morrow
2003 Supporting children: exploring gender differences. A critical review
paper. Funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Grant holder and
PI: V.Morrow
2002/3 The impact of out of school care on children and families DfES.
Grantholder: F Smith, PI: John Barker; Named researcher: V
Morrow
2002 Listening to children: Children, ethics and social research revising
and co-editing Alderson, P. (1995) publication, funded by R & D
Section, Barnardo's. Grantholder: V Morrow
2002 The ethics of social research with children: a feasibility study for a
voluntary sector research ethics committee, funded by R & D
Section, Barnardo’s. Grantholder
1999-2001 Dr Gill Dunne, Dr Shirley Prendergast & Dr V Morrow: Making it
through: a comparative study of transition for lesbian and gay
young people. ESRC project grant. Co-grantholder.
1995-1997 Children's definitions of family and kinship, funded by Joseph
Rowntree Foundation. Principal Investigator & Co-Grantholder (with
Prof MPM Richards)
EMPLOYMENT
2006- Reader in Childhood Studies, Institute of Education, University of
London

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2004-2006 Lecturer in Education, ECPE, Institute of Education, University of
London.
2002-2004 Research Lecturer, Dept of Health and Social Care/Centre for
Child-Focused
Research, Brunel University.
1998-2002 Senior Research Fellow, Gender Institute, London School of
Economics and Political Science. Research Project on Children,
Young People, Health and Social Capital for the Health Education
Authority/Eleanor Rathbone Trust.. Grantholder: Prof H Moore.
Principal investigator: V.Morrow
2001-2002 Tutorial Fellow/Course Convenor Department of Sociology, London
School of Economics, (0.5 fte)
1995.1997 Senior Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, Social &
Political Sciences Faculty, University of Cambridge: Joseph
Rowntree Foundation funded project.
1995.1998 Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, SPS Faculty,
University of Cambridge. Preparing a literature review on
Transitions to Adulthood as part of an interdisciplinary project
funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Grantholder: M.Richards.
PI: V.Morrow

CO-EDITOR of Childhood: A journal of global child research Published by Sage

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
In press 2008: Responsible children and children’s responsibilities? Sibling
caretaking and babysitting by school-age children. In Jo Bridgeman, Craig Lind
and Heather Keating (eds) Responsibility, Law and the Family. Ashgate, London.

(2006) Understanding gender differences in context: implications for young

children’s everyday lives in V. Morrow & P.Connolly (eds) Special issue, Gender
and Ethnicity in Children's Everyday Lives, Children & Society. Vol 20, pp92-104.

(2004) Children's 'social capital': implications for health and well-being Health
Education 104, No 4, 211-225.

(2001) Young people's explanations and experiences of social exclusion:

retrieving Bourdieu's concept of social capital. International Journal of Sociology
and Social Policy, Vol 21, Nos 4/5/6, 37-63.

(1999) ‘We are people too’: Children’s perspectives on rights and decision-
making in England. International Journal of Children’s Rights, 7, 149-170.

(1999) Conceptualising social capital in relation to the well-being of children and

young people: a critical review The Sociological Review, 47, 4, 744-765.

(1996) ‘Rethinking childhood dependency: children's contribution to the domestic

economy’ in The Sociological Review, 44, 1, 58-77.

With P.Alderson (2004) Ethics, social research and consulting with children and
young people. Barnardo's, Barkingside.

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 (1994) ‘Responsible children? Aspects of children's work and employment
outside school in contemporary UK’ in B.Mayall (ed) Children's childhoods.
Observed and experienced London, Falmer Press.