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:
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
June 2023
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,
November 2022
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
September 2022
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
April 2022
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
May 2021
A Review of my Book appears in the new edition of Journal of Youth and Adolescence
February 2021
In February I was interviewed by two undergraduate students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore as part of their research into young people’s experience of divorce. Their aim was to interview young people and experts in the field. They have been kind enough to share a copy of their finished article, which can be accessed through the link below.
‘Confronting Divorce in Today’s Society’ by Tham Ya and Z’en Peck
January 2020
A workshop for academics, practitioners and social work students at Kadambari Memorial College, Kathmandu, Nepal
09.01.20 Interview with Mr Ghanshyan Dahal at Babylon National School, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Events 2019
November 2019
‘Supporting children in ‘accommodating’ parental separation and divorce’, presentation at ‘Facilitating the Attachment Aware School – Making it work in your setting’
2019 ARC Annual Conference – Birmingham 21.11.19
November 2019
‘Understanding children’s ‘accommodation’ of parental separation and divorce’, joint seminar between Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) and Childhood & Youth Studies Research Group, Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSE), University of Edinburgh – 05.11.19
October 2019
‘Childhood Experiences of Separation and Divorce’, Rainbows Registered Directors CPD Conference, Hindsley Hall, Leeds – 05.10.19
September 2019
‘Framework for understanding children’s accommodation of parental separation’ presentation, A Sharing Dialogue on Prisoner’s Children with Ms Indira Ranamagar, Prisoners Assistance Nepal, School of Education, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) – 19.09.19
August 2019
‘Understanding children’s accommodation of parental separation and divorce; a framework for practitioners working with children and families’ presentation, The International Coalition for Children with Incarcerated Parents (INCCIP) Conference, University of Huddersfield – 12.08.19
July 2019
‘Parental separation and support strategies’ presentation, Little League Sports (LLS), Liverpool – 15.07.19.
June 2019
‘Creating a bricolage with young people to research childhood experiences of separation and divorce: challenges, rewards and outcomes’ presentation, The Collaboration, Creativity and Complexities Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University – 27.06.19
April 2019
Interview with Radio City in relation to proposed reforms to divorce laws – 09.04.19
March 2019
‘Parental separation and support strategies’ presentation, St Nicholas RC Primary School, Liverpool – 06.03.19
January 2019
‘Parental separation and support strategies’ presentation, National Babylon School, Kathmandu, Nepal – 14.01.19
‘Designing research with young people’ and ‘Framework for understanding children’s accommodation of parental separation’ presentation, Social work department, Kadambari Memorial College, Kathmandu, Nepal – 11.01.19
Dr Susan Kay-Flowers 