07 December 2017
| Royal College of Physicians
Growing Up in Scotland: Annual Conference
The Growing Up In Scotland study has been tracking the lives of thousands of children for over a decade, producing great research and fascinating findings.
This year the Annual Conference will take place at Edinburgh's Royal College of Surgeons. Please join us for lively discussion of this year's findings as well as to hear about future plans for the survey and new and emerging analysis of GUS data.
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Speakers will include Mark McDonald, Minister for Childcare and Early Years, representitives from the Scottish Government, researchers who are using GUS data, and of course, the GUS team itself.
The event will be chaired by Alan Sinclair. Alan is a former Director of Skills for Scottish Enterprise and has spent time at the Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing, as well as the Work Foundation.
Conference programme
09:30 Arrival / Registration
09:45 Welcome from Chair, Alan Sinclair
09:50 Minister’s Speech, Mark McDonald MSP: Minister for Childcare and Early years
10:00 GUS Report: Maternal employment patterns & barriers to paid work, Line Knudsen, ScotCen
10:20 Policy Response, Victoria Beattie, Scottish Government
10:35 Break
11:00 GUS Report: Father-child relationships and child wellbeing, Dr Alison Parkes, University of Glasgow
11:20 GUS Report: Physical activity among Scottish children, Dr Paul McCrorie, University of Glasgow
11:40 Emerging research and fourthcoming results
12:10 GUS update, Paul Bradshaw, ScotCen
12:30 Ends
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