Linzi Ladlow
@drlinziladlow.bsky.social
Sociology and Social Policy. Research Fellow in Family Research. Utilising qualitative longitudinal, creative and participatory methods to research with children, young people and families.
School governor.
Soon-to-be Leverhulme Trust ECF.
School governor.
Soon-to-be Leverhulme Trust ECF.
Pinned
I’m so pleased to share that I’ve been awarded a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship, beginning in January 2026. 🌱My project, Reframing Young Parenthood, explores how poverty and stigma shape the lives of young parents and their children across generations.
Looking forward to these symposiums and seeing colleagues today at the SPA conference!
The Family Policy Group is at @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social conference today #York2025 . Join us for 2 symposiums on Reproductive Justice. Thanks to @patriciahamilton.bsky.social and Sung-Hee Lee for organising and leading these sessions. We hope to see you there!
July 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Looking forward to these symposiums and seeing colleagues today at the SPA conference!
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The @followingyff.bsky.social are proud to support #FathersMentalHealth on International Father's Mental Health Day 2025 #IFMHD2025
To mark the occasion @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and I reflect on findings about young fathers and their mental health
followingyoungfathersfurther.org/blog/the-men...
To mark the occasion @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and I reflect on findings about young fathers and their mental health
followingyoungfathersfurther.org/blog/the-men...
June 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The @followingyff.bsky.social are proud to support #FathersMentalHealth on International Father's Mental Health Day 2025 #IFMHD2025
To mark the occasion @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and I reflect on findings about young fathers and their mental health
followingyoungfathersfurther.org/blog/the-men...
To mark the occasion @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and I reflect on findings about young fathers and their mental health
followingyoungfathersfurther.org/blog/the-men...
I’m so pleased to share that I’ve been awarded a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship, beginning in January 2026. 🌱My project, Reframing Young Parenthood, explores how poverty and stigma shape the lives of young parents and their children across generations.
June 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I’m so pleased to share that I’ve been awarded a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship, beginning in January 2026. 🌱My project, Reframing Young Parenthood, explores how poverty and stigma shape the lives of young parents and their children across generations.
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Does the UK have a family policy?
We are delighted to be hosting Professor Mary Daly for this timely event exploring the evolving relationship between the state and the family. Please sign up here if you’d like to join us.
📅2nd June
🕙 10am
📍 Zoom
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
We are delighted to be hosting Professor Mary Daly for this timely event exploring the evolving relationship between the state and the family. Please sign up here if you’d like to join us.
📅2nd June
🕙 10am
📍 Zoom
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
Exploring the Relationship between the State and the Family
Social Policy Association Family Policy Group and rEUsilience Research Project, University of Oxford
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May 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Does the UK have a family policy?
We are delighted to be hosting Professor Mary Daly for this timely event exploring the evolving relationship between the state and the family. Please sign up here if you’d like to join us.
📅2nd June
🕙 10am
📍 Zoom
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
We are delighted to be hosting Professor Mary Daly for this timely event exploring the evolving relationship between the state and the family. Please sign up here if you’d like to join us.
📅2nd June
🕙 10am
📍 Zoom
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
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📢New comic aimed at boys and young men to help normalise conversations about mental health📢
Young men told us that they often felt alone and isolated in their mental health. Men Minds wants to change this
Read or download the comic www.menminds.org/comic
Artwork created by @ellbalson.bsky.social
Young men told us that they often felt alone and isolated in their mental health. Men Minds wants to change this
Read or download the comic www.menminds.org/comic
Artwork created by @ellbalson.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📢New comic aimed at boys and young men to help normalise conversations about mental health📢
Young men told us that they often felt alone and isolated in their mental health. Men Minds wants to change this
Read or download the comic www.menminds.org/comic
Artwork created by @ellbalson.bsky.social
Young men told us that they often felt alone and isolated in their mental health. Men Minds wants to change this
Read or download the comic www.menminds.org/comic
Artwork created by @ellbalson.bsky.social
For anyone interested in learning what a more father-inclusive society would look like and how it can be achieved, this is article is excellent and essential reading
NEW PUBLICATION!
Father-inclusion: a sensitising concept and framing strategy for addressing the systemic exclusion of men as-fathers across services
Please DM me if you'd like access to a copy
DOI: doi.org/10.1332/2046...
Weblink: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Father-inclusion: a sensitising concept and framing strategy for addressing the systemic exclusion of men as-fathers across services
Please DM me if you'd like access to a copy
DOI: doi.org/10.1332/2046...
Weblink: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
May 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
For anyone interested in learning what a more father-inclusive society would look like and how it can be achieved, this is article is excellent and essential reading
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We are delighted to host Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant then Screwed. Please join us for this free webinar by signing up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...
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Social Policy Association Family Policy Group Webinar: Joeli Brearley
The Family Policy Group of the Social Policy Association is delighted to host Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant Then Screwed
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April 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
We are delighted to host Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant then Screwed. Please join us for this free webinar by signing up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...
Can’t wait for this!
📣 New event!
@familypolicyspa.bsky.social is delighted to host @joelib.bsky.social , founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, for a special webinar
📅 Monday 19th May
🕛 12noon-1pm
📍 Zoom
See full details and register for free now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...
@familypolicyspa.bsky.social is delighted to host @joelib.bsky.social , founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, for a special webinar
📅 Monday 19th May
🕛 12noon-1pm
📍 Zoom
See full details and register for free now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...
Social Policy Association Family Policy Group Webinar: Joeli Brearley
The Family Policy Group of the Social Policy Association is delighted to host Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant Then Screwed
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Can’t wait for this!
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The issues boys and men navigate are diverse and messy, linked to socioeconomic inequalities, geography and social history.
Blaming absent dads for the crisis of masculinity is too simplistic – many men want to be more involved
The issues boys and men navigate are diverse and messy, linked to socioeconomic inequalities, geography and social history.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The issues boys and men navigate are diverse and messy, linked to socioeconomic inequalities, geography and social history.
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New blog post! Dr Moldir Kabylova reflects on her research findings and lived experience to highlight how policies in Kazakhstan encouraging women to reduce their working hours reinforce traditional gender roles and contradict women’s aspirations for equality and professional grown.
New blog by Dr. Moldir Kabylova on the SPA website.
"Why policies encouraging women from Kazakhstan to decrease their work hours are at odds with what women want" ⬇️⬇️
social-policy.org.uk/spa-blog/why...
"Why policies encouraging women from Kazakhstan to decrease their work hours are at odds with what women want" ⬇️⬇️
social-policy.org.uk/spa-blog/why...
Blog - Why policies encouraging women from Kazakhstan to decrease their work hours are at odds with what women want - Social Policy Association
By Dr. Moldir Kabylova, University of Nottingham. Image credit: Moldir Kabylova. — Being used to hearing nationalistic and misogynistic slogans from members of the Kazakhstan [...]
social-policy.org.uk
March 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
New blog post! Dr Moldir Kabylova reflects on her research findings and lived experience to highlight how policies in Kazakhstan encouraging women to reduce their working hours reinforce traditional gender roles and contradict women’s aspirations for equality and professional grown.
It’s good to be back and making a familiar walk up to the University of Leeds! I’m here to present the FLaG lunchtime seminar. I’ll be talking about creative and participatory research with young parent families focusing on intergenerational photovoice: flag.leeds.ac.uk/events/creat...
March 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It’s good to be back and making a familiar walk up to the University of Leeds! I’m here to present the FLaG lunchtime seminar. I’ll be talking about creative and participatory research with young parent families focusing on intergenerational photovoice: flag.leeds.ac.uk/events/creat...
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You are invited to join us for the Inaugural Lecture of FYFF Director @profatarrant.bsky.social, Professor of Sociology
📅 Wednesday 26th March
🕕 18:00 – 19:00 (registration from 17:30)
📍 University of Lincoln (MB0312)
See full details and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...
📅 Wednesday 26th March
🕕 18:00 – 19:00 (registration from 17:30)
📍 University of Lincoln (MB0312)
See full details and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...
Inaugural Lecture: Anna Tarrant
LIAS are delighted to invite you to Professor Anna Tarrant's Inaugural Lecture
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March 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
You are invited to join us for the Inaugural Lecture of FYFF Director @profatarrant.bsky.social, Professor of Sociology
📅 Wednesday 26th March
🕕 18:00 – 19:00 (registration from 17:30)
📍 University of Lincoln (MB0312)
See full details and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...
📅 Wednesday 26th March
🕕 18:00 – 19:00 (registration from 17:30)
📍 University of Lincoln (MB0312)
See full details and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...
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NCRM is running a two-day online course on how to combine a variety of creative and participatory #ResearchMethods in your work.
The course, on 31 March and 1 April 2025, is led by @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and Dr Laura Way.
Book a place: buff.ly/0FMlXU3
The course, on 31 March and 1 April 2025, is led by @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and Dr Laura Way.
Book a place: buff.ly/0FMlXU3
March 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NCRM is running a two-day online course on how to combine a variety of creative and participatory #ResearchMethods in your work.
The course, on 31 March and 1 April 2025, is led by @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and Dr Laura Way.
Book a place: buff.ly/0FMlXU3
The course, on 31 March and 1 April 2025, is led by @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and Dr Laura Way.
Book a place: buff.ly/0FMlXU3
Love this! Beautiful and powerful artwork 🤩
Society doesn’t provide care experienced and/or disabled children & young people space to express creativity. Living Assessments gave them the opportunity to submit artwork on what ‘Home’ means to them. Explore the gallery: buff.ly/3ECzI42
February 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Love this! Beautiful and powerful artwork 🤩
Do you want to develop your knowledge and skills in using creative and participatory research methods? This interactive workshop includes: co-creation, researching with children, photovoice, ethics, analysis, impact... And you'll get to make your own zine! Sign up: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
Training course: Building Constellations of Creative and Participatory Research (online)
This exciting interactive workshop will develop your knowledge and skills in using creative and participatory research methods. Creative and participatory methods are increasingly being utilised by s
www.ncrm.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Do you want to develop your knowledge and skills in using creative and participatory research methods? This interactive workshop includes: co-creation, researching with children, photovoice, ethics, analysis, impact... And you'll get to make your own zine! Sign up: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
Take a look at the new Father-Inclusion Hub!
There was a real buzz at the launch event, wonderful to see so many people passionate about supporting dads and recognising the benefits this has not just for dad but the whole family. Excellent resources available here for free: fatherinclusion.org
There was a real buzz at the launch event, wonderful to see so many people passionate about supporting dads and recognising the benefits this has not just for dad but the whole family. Excellent resources available here for free: fatherinclusion.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Take a look at the new Father-Inclusion Hub!
There was a real buzz at the launch event, wonderful to see so many people passionate about supporting dads and recognising the benefits this has not just for dad but the whole family. Excellent resources available here for free: fatherinclusion.org
There was a real buzz at the launch event, wonderful to see so many people passionate about supporting dads and recognising the benefits this has not just for dad but the whole family. Excellent resources available here for free: fatherinclusion.org
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We're pleased to share that, in partnership with Only Mums & Dads, @profatarrant.bsky.social will be delivering a new short course on engaging fathers within the family justice sector
See full details and register here: www.omdtraining.co.uk/about-4
See full details and register here: www.omdtraining.co.uk/about-4
January 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We're pleased to share that, in partnership with Only Mums & Dads, @profatarrant.bsky.social will be delivering a new short course on engaging fathers within the family justice sector
See full details and register here: www.omdtraining.co.uk/about-4
See full details and register here: www.omdtraining.co.uk/about-4
I’m excited to share that me and Dr Laura Way will be running our popular @ncrm.ac.uk course again, ‘Building Constellations of Creative and Participatory Methods’. 31st March and 1st April online 10am-1pm.
Find out more and sign up here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
Find out more and sign up here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
Training course: Building Constellations of Creative and Participatory Research (online)
This exciting interactive workshop will develop your knowledge and skills in using creative and participatory research methods. Creative and participatory methods are increasingly being utilised by s
www.ncrm.ac.uk
January 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I’m excited to share that me and Dr Laura Way will be running our popular @ncrm.ac.uk course again, ‘Building Constellations of Creative and Participatory Methods’. 31st March and 1st April online 10am-1pm.
Find out more and sign up here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
Find out more and sign up here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
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🚨New article in Discourse & Society 🚨 Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions 🧵1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🚨New article in Discourse & Society 🚨 Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions 🧵1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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New article published in Methodological Innovations- 'Enhancing the participation of young and minoritised fathers in peer research: An intersectional reflexive analysis of methods and ethics': journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Dr Laura Way @profatarrant.bsky.social @drlinziladlow.bsky.social
Dr Laura Way @profatarrant.bsky.social @drlinziladlow.bsky.social
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:25 PM
New article published in Methodological Innovations- 'Enhancing the participation of young and minoritised fathers in peer research: An intersectional reflexive analysis of methods and ethics': journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Dr Laura Way @profatarrant.bsky.social @drlinziladlow.bsky.social
Dr Laura Way @profatarrant.bsky.social @drlinziladlow.bsky.social
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🎄Day 14🎄parent-infant relationships advent calendar.
Co-production with children is important when designing practice & policy. Babies have the same rights to be heard as other children (UNCRC). This guide from Scottish government helps address some practicalities
www.gov.scot/publications...
Co-production with children is important when designing practice & policy. Babies have the same rights to be heard as other children (UNCRC). This guide from Scottish government helps address some practicalities
www.gov.scot/publications...
Voice of the Infant: best practice guidelines and infant pledge
Co-produced by a short-life working group, on behalf of the Infant Mental Health Implementation and Advisory Group, which is part of the Scottish Government’s Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Progra...
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December 14, 2024 at 9:20 AM
🎄Day 14🎄parent-infant relationships advent calendar.
Co-production with children is important when designing practice & policy. Babies have the same rights to be heard as other children (UNCRC). This guide from Scottish government helps address some practicalities
www.gov.scot/publications...
Co-production with children is important when designing practice & policy. Babies have the same rights to be heard as other children (UNCRC). This guide from Scottish government helps address some practicalities
www.gov.scot/publications...
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How can participatory action research address complex challenges? A recent Lerning for Sustainability post explores collaboration, reflection action and co-design to empower groups for meaningful change.
#Sustainability, #Collaboration, #SystemsThinking, #AdaptiveManagement, #ActionResearch
#Sustainability, #Collaboration, #SystemsThinking, #AdaptiveManagement, #ActionResearch
Participatory action research: tackling today’s complex challenges - Learning for Sustainability
Participatory action research (PAR) offers a practical and inclusive approach to tackling today’s complex challenges. By combining collaboration, critical reflection, and iterative cycles of inquiry a...
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December 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM
How can participatory action research address complex challenges? A recent Lerning for Sustainability post explores collaboration, reflection action and co-design to empower groups for meaningful change.
#Sustainability, #Collaboration, #SystemsThinking, #AdaptiveManagement, #ActionResearch
#Sustainability, #Collaboration, #SystemsThinking, #AdaptiveManagement, #ActionResearch
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💥New: Rather than seeking to create yet another definition, Paul Jones explores how the term is used in practice by sociologists and what this reveals about lived experience more broadly.
#AcademicSky #SocialResearch #ResearchMethods
#AcademicSky #SocialResearch #ResearchMethods
What social scientists talk about when they talk about ‘Lived Experience’
Lived experience is a category of knowledge that is widely invoked across a range of social scientific research fields and the public sphere. Rather than seeking to create yet another definition, P…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 4:00 PM
💥New: Rather than seeking to create yet another definition, Paul Jones explores how the term is used in practice by sociologists and what this reveals about lived experience more broadly.
#AcademicSky #SocialResearch #ResearchMethods
#AcademicSky #SocialResearch #ResearchMethods
‘Recent years have seen the social security system attacked by funding cuts on one side and harmful rhetoric on the other, portraying it as a failure rather than a life-saving safety net…a strong social security system is the sign of a healthy society where everyone’s basic needs are met...’
UK child poverty is preventable, and the End Child Poverty Coalition has a plan to eradicate it: read the Coalition's Chair Joe Howes explain its eight tests for the government's child poverty strategy 👇
www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-c...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-c...
Child poverty is preventable – as a country we must do better for our children
The government must ensure that no UK child grows up in poverty, says the End Child Poverty Coalition. Here's how it can do that.
www.bigissue.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:55 AM
‘Recent years have seen the social security system attacked by funding cuts on one side and harmful rhetoric on the other, portraying it as a failure rather than a life-saving safety net…a strong social security system is the sign of a healthy society where everyone’s basic needs are met...’
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New friends on Bluesky I am running #creativemethods #readinggroup with The Binks Hub - we meet every Thursday morning and are open to all. Last one of term today. Pls send recommendations for readings 4 next year binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/join-our-cre...
Join our Creative Research Methods Reading Group – The Binks Hub
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December 5, 2024 at 9:08 AM
New friends on Bluesky I am running #creativemethods #readinggroup with The Binks Hub - we meet every Thursday morning and are open to all. Last one of term today. Pls send recommendations for readings 4 next year binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/join-our-cre...