• Studying
      Here
      • Chat with a Magdalen student
      • As an Undergraduate
        • Courses We Offer
        • Joint Schools
        • How to Apply
        • Information for applicants 2021/22
        • Freshers – 2022
        • Funding Your Course
        • Choral Scholars
        • Open Days and Visits
        • International Students
        • Visiting Students
        • Commonly Asked Questions
      • As a Graduate
        • Application Process
        • Selection Criteria
        • Clinical Medicine
        • Funding Your Course
        • Scholarships and Awards
        • Visiting Students
      • Second BA
      • Outreach
        • Schools Event Booking Form
        • Virtual Events
        • Virtual Humanities BAME Study Day 2022
        • Next Steps South Yorkshire
        • Law at Magdalen Programme
        • Outreach Resources
    • Living
      Here
      • As an Undergraduate
      • As a Graduate
      • Environment
      • Student Life
      • Student Profiles
        • Adam, Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE)
        • Amy, History
        • Betsy, Jurisprudence with Legal Studies in Europe
        • Catrin, Human Sciences
        • Eleanor, French and Linguistics
        • Nadia, Medicine
        • Parth, Biochemistry
        • Ryan, English
        • Seb, Music
      • Catering
      • Magdalen College Welfare Support
      • Information for care-experienced students
      • Societies
        • The Florio Society
        • The Atkin Society
        • The Sherrington Society
        • The Magdalen College Trust
          • Accomodation
      • Glossary
    • Discover
      Magdalen
      • College History
        • The College Buildings
        • The 43 Presidents
        • Famous Alumni
        • Nobel Laureates
        • Conversation Pieces
      • Research at Magdalen
      • Visiting Magdalen
      • News
      • B&B Room Reservation
      • Shop
    • People at
      Magdalen
    • Chapel
      & Choir
      • The Chapel
        • Chapel Services
        • Chapel People
        • Sunday Addresses and Sermons
        • Learning and Fellowship
        • Some Magdalen Sermons
        • The Organ of Magdalen College
      • The Choir
      • Choir Recordings
      • Services and Music List
    • Library
      & Archives
      • COVID-19: Information for Library Users
        • Library Click and Collect
        • Borrowing books whilst self-isolating
      • Libraries
        • New Library & St. Swithun’s Library
        • SOLO (Library catalogue)
        • History of Magdalen College Libraries
      • Archives
        • About the Archives
        • Access to the Archives
        • Online Catalogues
        • Hogarth – Lawrence – Wilson Projects
        • Magdalen Hall
        • Magdalen College School
      • Library & Archives Contact Details
      • Conservation
        • The Medieval Title Deeds Project
        • The Conservation of the Daubeny Library
        • The Conservation and Preservation of Greek Manuscripts at Magdalen College
      • Online Exhibitions
      • Illuminating Magdalen
      • Library & Archive News
    • Alumni
      & Friends
      • Alumni Area
        – Log in
      • Useful Information
      • Alumni News
      • Alumni Events
        • Webinar Recordings
      • Supporting Magdalen
        • Making a Gift (UK)
        • Making a Gift (Outside UK)
        • Giving in your Will
        • Fundraising Priorities
        • Recognising Your Support
      • Involving our Alumni
      • Publications
        • Publications Archive
      • Development and Alumni Relations Office Team
      • Social Media Hub
    • Conferences
      & Events
      • Magdalen News and Events
      • Residential Conferences
      • Day meetings
      • Private Dining
        • Sample Menus
    Home > Research at Magdalen > Calleva Research Centre > Changing Lives
    • An unbroken tradition of learning since 1458
    • Engaging environment for study and friends
    • Welcoming students from all backgrounds
    • Building on excellence
    • A warm community
    • Academic and athletic experiences
    • A community of enquiry and discovery
    • An environment for growth
    • Nurturing arts and culture

    Changing Lives

    Changing Lives: childhood experience, cumulative risk, and supportive environments across the life course

    Lucy Bowes and Siân Pooley

    ‘Changing Lives’ focuses on children who experience the most significant forms of adverse experience, from socio-economic deprivation to discrimination and violence. Our aim is to investigate how families, peers, communities, and the state make a difference to people’s lives. We are particularly interested in the complex and diverse impacts of both harmful and supportive relationships, measured in the short- and long-term. ‘Changing Lives’ is an interdisciplinary project that innovatively brings together the complementary strengths of research from medical sciences and humanities to ask new questions about how experience affects the unfolding of human lives.

    Three cross-disciplinary themes characterise our research:

    • Evaluating the impact of policies and interventions on young people’s lives
    • Placing children’s experiences and perspectives at the centre of research
    • Examining inequalities in childhood and cumulative disadvantage across the life-course

    We are grateful for funding from the Wellcome Trust, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the Calleva Foundation.

    Relevant publications by project members

    Carolina Guzman Holst and Lucy Bowes, ‘Bullying and Internalizing Symptoms’, in Peter K. Smith and James O’Higgins Norman (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Bullying: A comprehensive and international review of research and intervention (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2021), Chapter 31. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/9781118482728

    Siân Pooley and Jonathan Taylor (eds), Children’s experiences of welfare in modern Britain (London: University of London Press, 2021). https://www.sas.ac.uk/publications/children%E2%80%99s-experiences-welfare-modern-britain

    Jonathan Taylor, ‘“The Borough Council have done a great deal … I hope they continue to do so in the future”: children, community and the welfare state, 1941-55’, in Siân Pooley and Jonathan Taylor (eds), Children’s experiences of welfare in modern Britain (London: University of London Press, 2021), Chapter 6. https://www.sas.ac.uk/publications/children%E2%80%99s-experiences-welfare-modern-britain

    Michelle Degli Esposti, Snehal M. Pinto Pereira, David K. Humphreys, Richard D. Sale, and Lucy Bowes, ‘Child maltreatment and the risk of antisocial behaviour: A population-based cohort study spanning 50 years’, Child abuse & neglect, 99 (2020), 104281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104281

    Jonathan Taylor, ‘“[Her] hostess … is anxious to have her back when she is cured”: The impact of the evacuation of children on wartime local services, England, 1939–1945’, Medical Humanities, 46 (2020), 44-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011784

    Michelle Degli Esposti, David K Humphreys, Benjamin M Jenkins, Antonio Gasparrini, Siân Pooley, Manuel Eisner, and Lucy Bowes, ‘Long-term trends in child maltreatment in England and Wales, 1858–2016: an observational, time-series analysis’, The Lancet Public Health, 4: 3 (2019), 148-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30002-7

    Michelle Degli Esposti, Jonathan Taylor, David K. Humphreys, and Lucy Bowes, ‘iCoverT: A rich data source on the incidence of child maltreatment over time in England and Wales’, PLoS ONE, 13: 8 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201223

    Knowledge exchange, public engagement, and events

    ‘Care in the time of COVID’, led by Rosie Canning, Aoife O’Higgins, and Jonathan Taylor in 2020. ‘Care in the time of Covid’ received submissions from nearly 200 people from across the United Kingdom who have care experience. More than 170 participants opted to share their anonymised contributions with future researchers. These diary submissions, along with participants’ questionnaire responses, will be deposited with the UK Data Service.

    By sharing expertise with Magdalen College Oxford, the College was able to introduce new policies to support care-experienced students and to establish an outreach programme with Oxfordshire Virtual School for Looked After Children and Care Leavers. The collaboration was led by Aoife O’Higgins and Siân Pooley in 2020.

    A workshop, convened by Siân Pooley and Jonathan Taylor in 2020, shared new historical research on ‘Children’s experiences of welfare in modern Britain’. The event formed the starting point of an edited book published in 2021.

    In 2018, Lucy Bowes and Siân Pooley were invited to give the keynote lecture at the NSPCC and BASPCAN (now the Association of Child Protection Professionals) Child protection trainer of the year conference on ‘Inspiring good practice through training’.

    Conference papers, posters and presentations

    ‘“So they automatically put a label on yer”: Disability and mainstream education in England, 1945-1970′, conference paper by Samantha McCormack, presented at ‘The Intellectual Lives of Children’ colloquium, Oxford University (2021)

    ‘The impact of school-based antibullying interventions of internalizing symptoms: A systematic review and metanalysis’, conference paper by Carolina Guzman Holst, presented at World Anti-bullying Forum, Stockholm, Sweden (2021)

    ‘”Well, the major thing for me about school then was that I wasn’t there a great deal”: disability and educational inequality in post war England’, conference paper by Samantha McCormack, presented at the Society for History of Childhood and Youth annual conference (2021)

    ‘Care in the time of COVID’, conference paper by Rosie Canning and Aoife O’Higgins, presented at the International Network on Transitions to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC) (2021)

    ‘Childhood experiences of disability and specialist provision in England, 1918-1970’, seminar paper by Samantha McCormack, presented at the Centre for the History of Childhood, Oxford University (2020)

    ‘“The Borough Council have done a great deal … I hope they continue to do so in the future”: Children, Community and the Welfare State, 1935-1955’, conference paper by Jonathan Taylor, presented at workshop on Children’s Experiences of Welfare, Oxford University (2020)

    Project members

    Lucy Bowes (associate professor, Department of Experimental Psychology)

    Carolina Guzman Holst (D.Phil. student, Department of Experimental Psychology)

    Samantha McCormack (D.Phil. student, Faculty of History)

    Sînziana Oncioiu (post-doctoral research associate, Department of Experimental Psychology)

    Siân Pooley (associate professor, Faculty of History)

    Former project members

    Michelle Degli Esposti (D.Phil. student, Department of Experimental Psychology), currently post-doctoral researcher and statistical consultant, Federal University of Pelotas, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Oxford.

    Aoife O’Higgins (post-doctoral research associate, Department of Experimental Psychology), currently Director of Research, What Works for Children’s Social Care.

    Jonathan Taylor (history post-doctoral research assistant), currently Senior Research Associate, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.

    BUILDING OUR FUTURE: Magdalen's Campaign to raise £7.5m to redevelop the New Library How you can help

    Connect with us

    Get in touch

    Magdalen College
    Oxford
    OX1 4AU
    United Kingdom

    T: +44 (0)1865 276000

    Contact us

    Media Enquiries

    Job Vacancies

    Find us

    • Studying
      Here

      • Chat with a Magdalen student
      • As an Undergraduate
      • As a Graduate
      • Second BA
      • Outreach
    • Living
      Here

      • As an Undergraduate
      • As a Graduate
      • Environment
      • Student Life
      • Student Profiles
      • Catering
      • Magdalen College Welfare Support
      • Information for care-experienced students
      • Societies
      • Glossary
    • Discover
      Magdalen

      • College History
      • Research at Magdalen
      • Visiting Magdalen
      • News
      • B&B Room Reservation
      • Shop
    • People at
      Magdalen

    • Chapel
      & Choir

      • The Chapel
      • The Choir
      • Choir Recordings
      • Services and Music List
    • Library
      & Archives

      • COVID-19: Information for Library Users
      • Libraries
      • Archives
      • Library & Archives Contact Details
      • Conservation
      • Online Exhibitions
      • Illuminating Magdalen
      • Library & Archive News
    • Alumni
      & Friends

      • Alumni Area
        – Log in
      • Useful Information
      • Alumni News
      • Alumni Events
      • Supporting Magdalen
      • Involving our Alumni
      • Publications
      • Development and Alumni Relations Office Team
      • Social Media Hub
    • Conferences
      & Events

      • Magdalen News and Events
      • Residential Conferences
      • Day meetings
      • Private Dining
  • Copyright © Magdalen College, Oxford 2022 | Equality | Other policies | Strategic Plan | Internal Pages | Gender Pay Gap Magdalen College is a Registered Charity, No.1142149
    This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We will assume that you are ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Read More
    Privacy & Cookies Policy