Narratives of varied everyday lives and linked approaches (NOVELLA), UCL Institute of Education London

Virginia Morrow

Collaborating Partner of Family Lives and the Environment

Virginia Morrow is the Collaborating Partner of Family Lives and the Environment project. Virginia joined Young Lives full-time in January 2011, as Senior Research Officer. Her research focuses on children's work in developed and developing countries, sociological approaches to the study of childhood and children's rights, the ethics of social research with children, children's understandings of family, and children and 'social capital'. She has held research positions at the University of Cambridge (Centre for Family Research), LSE (Gender Institute), Brunel University, and a teaching post at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she ran the MA Sociology of Childhood & Children's Rights for seven years, where she was Reader in Childhood Studies. She has published extensively, and has been a member of numerous Advisory Groups and Research Ethics Committees. She has been co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research since 2006.

Virginia works with Gina Crivello and Emma Wilson, and they all collaborate with Natasha, Janet and Catherine over access to and secondary analysis of Young Lives Qualitative data. She is also currently writing a working paper with Janet and Rowena about the ethics of secondary data analysis, due end 2012.