Conference & Seminar Presentations

• “Human rights in an institutional setting: lessons from an evaluation of a human rights based approach at the State hospital”, Women, Punishment and Community Sanctions: Human Rights and Social Justice, Insight Scotland, Strathclyde University, 16th August 2010.
  
  
• “Human Rights in a Health Care Setting: Making it Work An Evaluation of The State Hospital human rights based approach”, 10th Annual IAFMHS Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 25th-27th May 2010.
  
  
• “Human Rights in a Health Care Setting: Making it Work An Evaluation of The State Hospital human rights based approach”, Research and Clinical Effectiveness Conference, The State Hospital, Carstairs, 6th May 2010.
  
  
• “A Human Rights-Based Approach at The State Hospital: Value to Society & Service Delivery”, 9th Annual IAFMHS Conference, Edinburgh, 30th November 2009, with Miller, A. & Milloy, S.
  
  
• “Pregnancy's good for your education!: dislike of and disengagement from school, teenage pregnancy and the route to social inclusion”, Department of Applied Social Science Seminar, University of Stirling, 17th October 2007. View PDF (82 KB)
  
  
• “Mainstream school: the major barrier to the education of pregnant young women in England?”, UK Social Policy Association July 2004 Conference: From Third Way to Which Way? 14th-16th July 2004. View PDF (56 KB)
  
  
• “The Education of School Age Mothers: Social exclusion, reintegration and the need for child care”, (with Selman P.) UK Social Policy Association July 2003 Conference: What works? Evidence, Research and Inference in Social Policy, July 2003. View PDF (226 KB)
  
  
• “Teenage Pregnancy in Young Women of School Age: an exploration of disengagement from the education system”, Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference Chicago, 15th-17th August 2002. View PDF (164 KB)
  
  
• “Teenage Pregnancy in Young Women of School Age: an exploration of disengagement from the education system”, (with Selman P.) UK Social Policy Association July 2002 Conference: Reconstituting Social Policy Queen’s University, Belfast, 24th-26th July 2002.
  
  
• “Overcoming the first hurdle – young people and access to sexual health services in Scotland, England, Finland and the Netherlands”, (with C. Silver), Helsinki: European Population Conference, 7th-9th June 2001. View PDF (70 KB)
  
  
• “A comparative exploration of social policy relating to teenage pregnancy in Finland & Scotland: key findings and policy implications”, National teenage Parent research and Practice Group, Newcastle, March 2001. View PDF (268 KB)
  
  
• “Findings from a comparative study of Finnish and Scottish policy” Public Health Seminar Series, Department of Public Health, Tampere University, Finland. April 2000
  
  
• “Understanding Social Problems: the cases of AIDS and teenage pregnancy” Department of Applied Social Science, Stirling University, Scotland. April 2000.
  
  
• “Teenage pregnancy and social policy – insights from Finland and Scotland”, National Teenage Parent Research and Practice Group, York, England. June 1999.
  
  
• “Teenage Pregnancy and Nursing”, Department of Nursing, Stirling University, Scotland. November 1998.
  
  
• “Social Policies directly and indirectly affecting teenage sexual behaviour in Finland: Implications for Scotland and the USA”, Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, San Francisco, September 1998.
  
  
• “Social policies and Teenage Pregnancy – initial comparisons from Finland and Scotland”, Public Health Seminar Series, Department of Public Health, Tampere University, Finland. May 1998.
  
  
• “Teenage Pregnancy – The role of social policy”, Public Health Seminar Series, Department of Public Health, Tampere University, Finland. November 1997.