October 2025
Exploring the ethics of researching with children, this edited collection was published in the book ‘The Ethics of Unlocking Research with Children; Creativity, Agency and Change’ edited by myself and Sam Frankel and published by Emerald. Available online from 16 October (see link below) and in hard copy from 5 November.
July 2025
My research, “Empowering Children in Coping With Their Parents’ Separation: The Views of Young Adults Looking Back on Their Childhood Experiences”, has been published! Read it here
17th June 2025
17 June 2025 – ‘Giving voice and listening to children’s experiences of parental separation and divorce: ethical dilemmas in research’ paper given at International Child & Family Conference, University of Bristol, UK
JULY 2024 Updates
8/7/24
Blog post: ‘Childhood migration: Separated children’s experiences and issues of citizenship in Nepal’ by The Childhood, Law and Policy Network (CLPN). See link below
5/6/24 – Paper at Arts and Professional Studies day.
‘Empowering Children in coping with their parents’ separation.’ See link below:
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2024/6/18/apssresearchday
My book cited in: Hargreaves, C. et al. (2024). Uncovering private family law: how often do we hear the voice of the child? Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. Available at: https://www.nuffieldfjo.org.uk/resource/uncovering-private-family-law-how-often-do-we-hear-the-voice-of-the-child
Previous posts
Kay-Flowers, S. (2023) Exploring separated children’s experience of migration in Nepal, Children & Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12759
Kay-Flowers, S. (2023) Co-production in creative design to amplify childhood voices of parental separation In Frankel, S. (Ed) Establishing Child-Centred Practice in a Changing World Part B, Emerald,
Kay-Flowers, S. ‘Co-production in Creative Design to Amplify Childhood Voices of Parental Separation’ In Frankel, S. (2023) (Ed) Establishing Child Centred Practice in a Changing World, Part B, Emerald Publishing Limited (forthcoming)
28 and 29 November 2022 – Experiences of separated children in Nepal webinar; dissemination of findings from International, collaborative QR research project
25 November 2022 – Kay-Flowers, S, Kadambari, P & Lama, N (2022) Experiences of separated children in Nepal report published – read a copy of the report here
22 November 2022 – ARC Conference, Burlington Hotel, Birmingham
Article published September 2022 in Social Work Review
Understanding ‘Home’ in Covid Times – Exploring Children’s Experiences of Family Relationships in the Context of ‘Intensity of Togetherness’ and the ‘Isolation of Being Apart
http://www.swreview.ro/index.pl/editorial-numar-3-2022-ro
My research cited in Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (2021) Children’s experience of private law proceedings: Six key messages from research, Nuffield FJO. Available at
Dr Sue Kay-Flowers: ‘Explaining the Framework for Understanding Children’s Accommodation of Parental Separation’ (15 minute video)
https://ljmu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3b56b8a7-1e45-46bc-a78b-ac7f00eed572
Kay-Flowers, S. (2020) How to handle the next lockdown and Christmas – some tips for recently separated parents, 05.11.20. Available at: https://theconversation.com/how-to-handle-the-next-lockdown-and-christmas-some-tips-for-recently-separated-parents-147811
Kay-Flowers, S (2020) Children of separated parents: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Transforming Society blog, 29.09.20. Available at: http://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2020/09/29/children-of-separated-parents-the-impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Dr Susan Kay-Flowers 