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Professor Steve Mckay’s project on Child Maintenance

Nuffield Foundation

Professor Steve McKay has an ongoing project on child Nuffield Foundationmaintenance (funded by Nuffield Foundation) with a research team of Stephen McKay (Lincoln University), Ms Caroline Bryson (BPSR), Professor Ira Ellman (Arizona State University) and Joanna Miles (Cambridge University)

A grant amount of £198,674 has helped the project span from November 2011 and will last until March 2014. The excerpt below is taken from the Nuffield Foundation website:

This study will assess whether the British public believes the government should require non-resident parents to pay child maintenance to support their children. It will provide the first detailed examination of how muchmaintenance it believes it should require in different family circumstances.

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Professor Judith Allsop contributes to RD Lawrence Biography

Life of RD Lawrence

A book on the founder of Diabetes UK – Dr RD LawrenceLife of RD Lawrence has been published together with consultants in this specialty, with the support of the pressure group Diabetes UK. Professor Judith Allsop contributed to the book by describing and appraising the formation of the BDA.

Jane Lawrence, the author of the biography describes what she found in this blog. Here’s an excerpt from the post:

Many people with an interest in diabetes know that Dr RD Lawrence (or RDL, as he was known) was an aspiring surgeon at King’s College Hospital (KCH), London, whose diabetes had been diagnosed by chance in 1920. (read more)

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Communities in care

Communities in Care Review

Hicks’ work funded by the AHRC in association with the Heritage Lottery Fund has ended with researchers from media, sports, education, English and history involved in the project to support five community groups. Entitled Communities in care: a scoping review to establish the relationship of community to the lives of looked after children and young people, the scheme was awarded £31,408. You can see a review of the Scheme by clicking here.