Publications

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. 

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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

Chapter

Kay-Flowers, S. (2023) ‘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)

Short Article

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

Academic Article

Kay-Flowers, S. (2020) Moving between home and school, the experiences of children of separated parents; discussions with education professionals, Pastoral Care in Education. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2020.1827283

Blog

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/

Blog

Kay-Flowers, S. (2019) Understanding children’s ‘accommodation’ of parental separation and divorce, CRFR blog, 07.10.19. Available at: http://crfrblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/understanding-childrens-accommodation.html

Short Article

Kay-Flowers, S. (2019) Here’s what young people say helped them get through their parents’ divorce, The Conversation, 04.09.19. Available at: https://theconversation.com/heres-what-young-people-say-helped-them-get-through-their-parents-divorce-121907

Artefact

Kay-Flowers, S. (2019) Framework for understanding children’s accommodation of parental separation, Bristol, Policy Press. Available at: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/asset/7308/kay-flowers-appendix-six-in-colour.pdf

Book

Kay-Flowers, S. (2019) Childhood Experiences of Separation and Divorce, Bristol, Policy Press. Available at: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/childhood-experiences-of-separation-and-divorce