Our project is publishing a range of resources and outputs including journal articles, a video for parents, policy briefs and evidence submissions. These will be added as they are produced and published. We also have our own blog where we share reflections from our project and around the issues and questions related to it.
Papers
- Calibrating families: data behaviourism and the new algorithmic logic, Gillies, V., Edwards, R. and Vannier Ducasse, H. (2024) Zeitschrift für Sozialreform: https://doi.org/10.1515/zsr-2024-0008
- Pre-problem families: predictive analytics and the future as the present, Edwards, R., Gillies, V., Gorin, S. and Vannier-Ducasse, H. (2024) Families, Relationships and Societies 13(2): 198-214
- The moral, the political and social licence in digitally-driven family policy and intervention: parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families, Edwards, R., Gillies, V., Gorin, S. and Vannier Ducasse, H. (2024) Social Policy & Administration 54(1): 228-245
- ‘Seen’ through records: parents’ access to children’s social care records in an age of increasing datafication, Gorin, S., Edwards, R., Gillies, V. and Vannier Ducasse, H. (2024) British Journal of Social Work, 54 (1): 228–245.
- ‘Problem-solving for problem-solving: data analytics to identify families for service intervention’. Edwards, R. Gillies, V. and Gorin, S. (2022). Critical Social Policy 47(2), pp.265-284.
- Data linkage for early intervention in the UK: Parental social license and social divisions, Edwards, R. Gillies, V and Gorin, S. (2021). Data & Policy 3(e34).
- Freedom of Information Requests on the Use of Data Analytics in Children’s Services: Generating Transparency, Gillies, V. and Gardner, B. with Edwards, R. and Gorin S. (2022) (Project Working Paper)
Policy briefings
- Policy Briefing Paper: Parents Views on Administrative Data Linkage and Analytics, Summer 2023
- Parents’ views on administrative data linkage and analytics, Edwards R., Gillies V., Gorin S., Ducasse H V
Book chapters
- Gillies, V. and Edwards, R. (2024) The Conservatives, family policy and the data revolution, in H. Bochel and M. Powell (eds) The Conservative Governments and Social Policy, pp.225-242, Bristol: Policy Press
- Do parents trust how data about their family is linked together? In, Livingstone, S. and Pothong, Kruakae (eds.) Edwards, R., Gillies, V. and Gorin, S. (2022). Education Data Futures: Critical, Regulatory and Practical Reflections. 5Rights Foundation.
Evidence submissions
- Written response to the UK Government Cabinet Office consultation on draft legislation to support identity verification, 28 February 2023
- The Governance of Artificial Intelligence – Written evidence to the Parliament Science and Technology Committee (2022)
- The Right to Privacy: Digital Data – Written evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (2022)
- Data: A New Direction – Written submission to the Department of Digital Culture, Media and Sport Public Consultation (2021)
- The role of public services in addressing child vulnerability – Written evidence for the House of Lords Public Services Committee (Select Committee)
External blogs
- Generating transparency where none exists: just how are data analytics used in children’s services, Data & Policy Blog, November 2021
- Is a breakdown in trust, transparency and social cohesion a price worth paying for more extensive data linkage? LSE Impact Blog, May 2021
Presentations
- Engaging voice about personal information: The Parental Social Licence project, ‘Personal information: the voice of children and families’ event, Ros Edwards, The Nuffield Foundation, 8 November 2023
- The moral, the political and social licence in digitally-driven family policy and intervention: parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families, Ros Edwards, Social Policy Association annual conference, 6 July 2023
- ‘Problem-solving for problem-solving: data analytics to identify families for service intervention’, International Symposium on Critical Policy Studies: Exploring the premises and politics of Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach, Ros Edwards, University of Karlstad, Sweden, 17-18th August 2022
- Problem-solving for problem-solving: data analytics to identify families for service intervention, Ros Edwards, British Sociological Association Conference, 2021
- Data linkage and early intervention – parental social licence and the embedding of marginalization, Ros Edwards, Social Policy Association annual conference, online, 7 July 2021
Other resources
- Parental data: an animation created by the research team with support from Cognitive Media Ltd, 2022