Maggie Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 5814134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maggie Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maggie |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4077-5890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ostensibly small moments and their ethical implications in research with care experienced children and young people
Over recent decades, a focus on children’s rights has led to their increased involvement in research. However, ethical reflections on dynamics which shape and produce children’s voice within research encounters remain under-explored. Social work research involving children on sensitive topics must balance their right to participate with avoiding harm. This paper reflects on two vignettes from our longitudinal study on care-experienced children in…
Learning in and beyond the classroom
Separated children, seeking protection in a new country unaccompanied by parents or customary caregivers, have the right to education yet many face difficulties accessing appropriate provision. We analysed data from Scotland across different types of provision: one specialist programme for separated children and four areas providing a mixture of mainstream and adapted classes. Drawing on situated learning theory and the concept of communities of …
Safeguarding Children Living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians
This 131-page companion Good Practice Guide from Coram BAAF provides, through its seven chapters, a detailed exploration of themes from fifty-two serious/significant case reviews carried out in England, Wales and Scotland between January 2007 and July 2019. The reviews related to ninety-eight children. Although the aim was to draw cases from the four nations, no reviews from Northern Ireland and only one from Scotland were accessed, due to differ…
Changes and Continuities in Adoption Social Work
This article charts changes and continuities in the social work role in adoption since 1968. The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 established the Children’s Hearing System, Scotland’s unique approach to child welfare in which lay volunteers make decisions on compulsory intervention relating to children. Although the Act was not intended to reform adoption practice, it has had two major impacts. First, as adoption moved from ‘relinquishment’ to mor…
In-between and beyond
This article explores the use of digital images as part of the adoption process. Based on a series of semi-structured interviews with adoptive parents, social workers and foster carers, it explores the responses of these stakeholders and reflects on the value and effect of digital images as they are employed when a child is placed for adoption. The research reveals how the kinds of information ‘moving images’ can offer become significant, not jus…
Infant domestic adoption
BACKGROUND: Adoption studies can cast light on environmental influences on development, but heterogeneity in preplacement experiences often complicates interpretation of findings. METHODS: We studied infant-adopted samples drawn from the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts and examined mental health, well-being, physical health and externalizing outcomes at mid-life. Outcomes for adopted cohort members were compared with those of (a) individuals …
Infant domestic adoptions followed up to adulthood
Studies of adult outcomes of infant domestic adoptions are considered: the range of psychological and behavioural outcomes recorded, the current state of knowledge summarised and the importance of the chosen comparison groups discussed. The social context of infant adoptions is described. Findings from our follow-ups of British infant adoptions in the post-World War 11 period are then briefly reported and set alongside the previous studies. In th…
Further analysis of the British Chinese Adoption Study (BCAS)
This paper seeks to contribute to debates about how people's adult lives unfold after experiencing childhood adversity. It presents analysis from the British Chinese Adoption Study: a mixed methods follow-up study of women, now aged in their 40s and early 50s, who spent their infant lives in Hong Kong orphanages and were then adopted by families in the UK in the 1960s. Sixty-eight women participated via questionnaires and face-to-face interviews.…
The best three days of my life’
This article examines one of the less frequently considered elements of riots: the emotions to which they give rise. Based on testimony from interviews with people who took part in the 2011 England riots, it explores the curiosity which drew many onto the streets, the excitement and fear involved in such quickly unfolding and unpredictable events, the impunity that many felt being part of such large crowds, together with the sense of ‘empowerment…
The biggest gang’? Police and people in the 2011 England riots
Conflict with the police is a staple of civil disorder and the English riots of 2011 were no exception. The antagonism towards the police expressed by the rioters varied in intensity – from a low-level anger stemming from occasional negative experiences on the one hand to outright, visceral hostility on the other – but was visible everywhere riots took place. Leading politicians dismissed this hostility as nothing more than the typical wariness c…
Fifth International Conference on Adoption Research (Icar5), 7–11 January 2016, Auckland, New Zealand
Superiority in English and German
Do the grammars of English and German contain a ban on moving the lower of two wh-phrases (Superiority), or is the lower acceptability due simply to the complexity of processing the longer dependency that results when the lower wh-phrase is moved? The results of four acceptability-judgment studies suggest that a pure processing account is inadequate. Crossing wh-dependencies lower the acceptability of both German and English questions but with a …
Residential Child Care
The Poor Relations
The British Chinese Adoption Study
Follow-up studies of adopted adults are very important in contributing to the development of policy and practice when placing children in families following early adversity. This article describes the development of a methodology for one such study due to be completed in 2012. The files of 100 ethnic Chinese girls adopted from Hong Kong into British families in the 1960s were made available and originally analysed in 2007. As the files recorded d…
Assessing Community Connectedness and Self-Regard in a Mid-Life Follow-up of British Chinese Adoptions
In the field of international adoption there has been a long-standing concern that transracially adopted people experience social dislocation from both their communities of origin and the communities in which they grew up. Alan Rushton, Margaret Grant, John Simmonds and Julia Feast of the British Chinese Adoption Study team explore this notion in relation to a sample of 72 ex-orphanage, Hong Kong-born women adopted into British families in the 19…
South Asia Pacific Crisis. National Development and the World Community
The biggest gang’? Police and people in the 2011 England riots
Conflict with the police is a staple of civil disorder and the English riots of 2011 were no exception. The antagonism towards the police expressed by the rioters varied in intensity – from a low-level anger stemming from occasional negative experiences on the one hand to outright, visceral hostility on the other – but was visible everywhere riots took place. Leading politicians dismissed this hostility as nothing more than the typical wariness c…
The best three days of my life’
This article examines one of the less frequently considered elements of riots: the emotions to which they give rise. Based on testimony from interviews with people who took part in the 2011 England riots, it explores the curiosity which drew many onto the streets, the excitement and fear involved in such quickly unfolding and unpredictable events, the impunity that many felt being part of such large crowds, together with the sense of ‘empowerment…
Assessing Community Connectedness and Self-Regard in a Mid-Life Follow-up of British Chinese Adoptions
In the field of international adoption there has been a long-standing concern that transracially adopted people experience social dislocation from both their communities of origin and the communities in which they grew up. Alan Rushton, Margaret Grant, John Simmonds and Julia Feast of the British Chinese Adoption Study team explore this notion in relation to a sample of 72 ex-orphanage, Hong Kong-born women adopted into British families in the 19…
The Poor Relations
The British Chinese Adoption Study
Follow-up studies of adopted adults are very important in contributing to the development of policy and practice when placing children in families following early adversity. This article describes the development of a methodology for one such study due to be completed in 2012. The files of 100 ethnic Chinese girls adopted from Hong Kong into British families in the 1960s were made available and originally analysed in 2007. As the files recorded d…
South Asia Pacific Crisis. National Development and the World Community
The British Chinese Adoption Study
Follow-up studies of adopted adults are very important in contributing to the development of policy and practice when placing children in families following early adversity. This article describes the development of a methodology for one such study due to be completed in 2012. The files of 100 ethnic Chinese girls adopted from Hong Kong into British families in the 1960s were made available and originally analysed in 2007. As the files recorded d…
Assessing Community Connectedness and Self-Regard in a Mid-Life Follow-up of British Chinese Adoptions
In the field of international adoption there has been a long-standing concern that transracially adopted people experience social dislocation from both their communities of origin and the communities in which they grew up. Alan Rushton, Margaret Grant, John Simmonds and Julia Feast of the British Chinese Adoption Study team explore this notion in relation to a sample of 72 ex-orphanage, Hong Kong-born women adopted into British families in the 19…
Residential Child Care
The Poor Relations
Superiority in English and German
Do the grammars of English and German contain a ban on moving the lower of two wh-phrases (Superiority), or is the lower acceptability due simply to the complexity of processing the longer dependency that results when the lower wh-phrase is moved? The results of four acceptability-judgment studies suggest that a pure processing account is inadequate. Crossing wh-dependencies lower the acceptability of both German and English questions but with a …
The best three days of my life’
This article examines one of the less frequently considered elements of riots: the emotions to which they give rise. Based on testimony from interviews with people who took part in the 2011 England riots, it explores the curiosity which drew many onto the streets, the excitement and fear involved in such quickly unfolding and unpredictable events, the impunity that many felt being part of such large crowds, together with the sense of ‘empowerment…
The biggest gang’? Police and people in the 2011 England riots
Conflict with the police is a staple of civil disorder and the English riots of 2011 were no exception. The antagonism towards the police expressed by the rioters varied in intensity – from a low-level anger stemming from occasional negative experiences on the one hand to outright, visceral hostility on the other – but was visible everywhere riots took place. Leading politicians dismissed this hostility as nothing more than the typical wariness c…
Fifth International Conference on Adoption Research (Icar5), 7–11 January 2016, Auckland, New Zealand
Further analysis of the British Chinese Adoption Study (BCAS)
This paper seeks to contribute to debates about how people's adult lives unfold after experiencing childhood adversity. It presents analysis from the British Chinese Adoption Study: a mixed methods follow-up study of women, now aged in their 40s and early 50s, who spent their infant lives in Hong Kong orphanages and were then adopted by families in the UK in the 1960s. Sixty-eight women participated via questionnaires and face-to-face interviews.…
In-between and beyond
This article explores the use of digital images as part of the adoption process. Based on a series of semi-structured interviews with adoptive parents, social workers and foster carers, it explores the responses of these stakeholders and reflects on the value and effect of digital images as they are employed when a child is placed for adoption. The research reveals how the kinds of information ‘moving images’ can offer become significant, not jus…
Infant domestic adoption
BACKGROUND: Adoption studies can cast light on environmental influences on development, but heterogeneity in preplacement experiences often complicates interpretation of findings. METHODS: We studied infant-adopted samples drawn from the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts and examined mental health, well-being, physical health and externalizing outcomes at mid-life. Outcomes for adopted cohort members were compared with those of (a) individuals …
Infant domestic adoptions followed up to adulthood
Studies of adult outcomes of infant domestic adoptions are considered: the range of psychological and behavioural outcomes recorded, the current state of knowledge summarised and the importance of the chosen comparison groups discussed. The social context of infant adoptions is described. Findings from our follow-ups of British infant adoptions in the post-World War 11 period are then briefly reported and set alongside the previous studies. In th…
Changes and Continuities in Adoption Social Work
This article charts changes and continuities in the social work role in adoption since 1968. The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 established the Children’s Hearing System, Scotland’s unique approach to child welfare in which lay volunteers make decisions on compulsory intervention relating to children. Although the Act was not intended to reform adoption practice, it has had two major impacts. First, as adoption moved from ‘relinquishment’ to mor…
Safeguarding Children Living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians
This 131-page companion Good Practice Guide from Coram BAAF provides, through its seven chapters, a detailed exploration of themes from fifty-two serious/significant case reviews carried out in England, Wales and Scotland between January 2007 and July 2019. The reviews related to ninety-eight children. Although the aim was to draw cases from the four nations, no reviews from Northern Ireland and only one from Scotland were accessed, due to differ…
Learning in and beyond the classroom
Separated children, seeking protection in a new country unaccompanied by parents or customary caregivers, have the right to education yet many face difficulties accessing appropriate provision. We analysed data from Scotland across different types of provision: one specialist programme for separated children and four areas providing a mixture of mainstream and adapted classes. Drawing on situated learning theory and the concept of communities of …
Ostensibly small moments and their ethical implications in research with care experienced children and young people
Over recent decades, a focus on children’s rights has led to their increased involvement in research. However, ethical reflections on dynamics which shape and produce children’s voice within research encounters remain under-explored. Social work research involving children on sensitive topics must balance their right to participate with avoiding harm. This paper reflects on two vignettes from our longitudinal study on care-experienced children in…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)