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Professor Debbie Watson

Debbie

Professor of Child and Family Welfare, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Email: debbie.watson@bristol.ac.uk

Profile

Debbie is a Professor of Child and Family Welfare and Director of the Brigstow Research Institute at Bristol and has experience of researching with a diverse range of children, young people and families. Her research is particularly concerned with identities, narratives and materialities of children and young people's lives and of human and non-human entanglements. She is an interdisciplinary researcher who uses co-productive and creative methods to co-create research with communities. She currently has two funded projects- one working with East London Dance company on a project called 'VR Dance' which is engaging young people at risk of criminalisation in hip hop and immersive technologies to explore risk, resilience and wellbeing. She is also Co-I on the newly funded ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures and will be exploring the intersections of digital technologies, futures thinking and care in the context of children and families lives.

Research

Publications

-Watson, D.L & Reid, J. (2021) Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction: troubling the discourse, Journal of Material Culture, 27 (2): https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835211049042
pp.107-123.
-Garstang, J., Watson, D. L., Pease, A. S., Ellis, C., Blair, P. S. & Fleming, P. J. (2021) Improving engagement with services to prevent Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) in families with children at risk of significant harm: a systematic review of evidence, Child: Care, Health and Development, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33929753/ pp. 1-28.
-Watson, D.L., Morgan, E. & Bull, K. (2021) Child-dog faeces assemblages and children’s engagements in activist art, Children’s Geographies, 19 (6): pp. 735-753. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2021.1893276
-Watson, D.L., Staples, E., Riches, K. (2020) ‘We need to understand what’s going on because it’s our life’: Using sandboxing to understand children and young people’s everyday conversations about care. Children and Society, 00:1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12432.
-Gray, S., Hahn, R., Cater, K., Watson, D.L., Williams, K., Metcalfe, T. & Meineck, C. (2020) Towards A Design For Life: Redesigning For Reminiscence With Looked After Children, CHI (Human-Computer Interaction), 25-30th April 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp.1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824

 

Expertise

Children and young people's identities and wellbeing; Children who are care experienced; Narrative and material memory; Children and families in low-income circumstances; Care and caring practices/ ethics; Sociodigital futures
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