Meet the Scientific Committee Members working hard behind the scenes to create an engaging International Conference on Shared Parenting Vancouver 2020 agenda with interesting speakers, panelists and presenters.
Emily M. Douglas, Ph.D. Co-chair of the Scientific Committee
Dr. Douglas is a public policy scientist conducting research on child and family well-being, the child welfare system, fatal child maltreatment, family violence and divorced families, and corporal punishment. Professor and head of the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Edward Kruk, Ph.D. Co-chair of the Scientific Committee.
Dr. Kruk is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of British Columbia, specializing in child and family policy, who also practices family mediation in Vancouver, B.C. His recent research projects have focused on parenting after divorce, family mediation, and parental alienation. Author of Divorce and Disengagement: Patterns of Fatherhood Within and Beyond Marriage (Fernwood, 1993), Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Social Work and the Human Services (Nelson-Hall, 1997), Divorced Fathers: Children’s Needs and Parental Responsibilities (Fernwood, 2011), and The Equal Parent Presumption (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013), and has published widely in a variety of academic and professional journals.
Malin Bergström, Ph.D., is a child psychologist and scientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a specialist in studies concerning the effect on children with different child custody arrangements after divorce or separation. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal study designs, her research group has shown that children have better physical, mental and social outcomes if they live in a shared parenting arrangement compared to primarily living with only one parent.
Alexander Masardo, Ph.D. is Academic Subject Lead for the Early Years and Education Program at the University of Gloucestershire. His research specialization is in shared residence and parental residence after parental separation in the context of changing family forms. He has held academic positions at the Universities of Bath and the University of Birmingham, and Visiting and Honorary Fellowships at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and Centre for the Study of Global Ethics in the UK. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Family Studies.
Alexandra Lysova. Ph.D. Assistant professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Her work has explored a neglected issue in the study of partner violence, the interactional dynamics of violent incidents between intimate partners. Specifically, she examines women’s accounts of partner violence and identifies main classes of violent incidents depending on types of violent dynamics.
Chantal Clot-Grangeat, Ph.D. is Vice-President of ICSP and a psychologist in private practice. She is interested in differentiating conflict, judicialization and family violence. She co-chaired, with Michel Grangeat, the 4th International Conference on Shared Parenting, Strasbourg (France) 2018 on the theme: Shared Parenting, Social Justice and Children´s Rights.
Michel Grangeat, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Educational Science at the University Grenoble Alpes (France). He is a founding member of the ICSP. Michel’s specialty is the study of the activity of professionals of the human professions (teachers, social workers, caregivers, etc.) in the collective settings, i.e. when their activity achievement depends on several professionals. Recently, his work appeared in a special issue in the review ‘Droit de la famille’ (Family Law) that presented the main research outcomes on children benefits and losses in shared parenting arrangements.
Call for Papers is open now and the deadline is January 31st, 2020