The Centre for Childhoods & Social Justice is delighted to host Dr Brenda Herbert (UCL), to give a talk about her research followed by a book launch.
In this talk Brenda will discuss and reflect on her 18-month multimodal ethnography with children who had experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention in an inner London borough. Brenda will discuss why, despite her reluctancy, she decided to use a multimodal ethnographic method for her research. She will explore some of the ethical and methodological challenges of the research, including negotiating various tensions between her identities as a practitioner and researcher. Brenda will demonstrate how using a multimodal ethnographic methodology can decolonise research with children who are marginalised through racism, poverty, ableism and insecure immigration status, and challenge the colonial trope of the passive and damaged child.
This event is hybrid - teams link below.
Biography
Brenda Herbert is currently a British Academy Fellow at University College London (UCL). She was the Sociological Review Fellow 2024/25. Brenda is a BACP registered psychodynamic counsellor and has worked with children and families who have experienced domestic abuse for over twenty years in London.
Book launch for Brenda's book 'The Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse - Looking Beyond the Trauma Lens' will follow from 4:30-5:30pm.
Drinks provided!
Teams information:
Microsoft Teams meeting
Meeting ID: 395 565 220 898 1
Passcode: ws6Hs9RG