Julia Feast
Biographic Data
| ID | 6463440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Feast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Feast |
| SIGNATURE | FEAST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | BAAF |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Letter
Can the UK’s birth registration system better serve the interests of those born following collaborative assisted reproduction
The life and work of John Triseliotis
John Triseliotis died on 29 September 2012, aged 83. He was a pioneering figure in the field of adoption and fostering whose work and policy influence will benefit social workers, researchers and others involved in adoption and child welfare for many years to come. In addition to his wider influence, John regularly reviewed books for this journal and was always very willing to comment on submissions, most recently a study of illegal practices in …
The British Chinese Adoption Study: Planning a study of lifecourse and outcomes
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…
Adoptive Fathers' Experiences of Search and Reunion
Most research looking at the role of adopters in the adoption, search and reunion process has tended to focus on the experiences of either the adoptive mother or both adoptive parents as a unit. As a result, the role of the adoptive father has had a much lower profile in the literature and research available to practitioners and professionals. Julia Feast, Fiona Kyle and John Triseliotis seek to redress the balance by analysing data from a previo…
The Use of Discretion in a 'Cinderella' Service: Data Protection and Access to Child-Care Files for Post-Care Adults
This paper focuses on policy implementation and, in particular, the workings of ‘street-level bureaucracy’ in a small, marginalised area of welfare provision, namely post-care adults seeking access to their care records. The work arises from research mapping UK service provision in this area, via questionnaires and interviews with key actors in local authorities and voluntary organisations. The study was prompted by widespread but largely anecdot…
Access to Information: Progress and Perils
Julia Feast discusses BAAF's role in securing the right of adopted people to have access to information about their origins and how perceptions regarding this right have changed over time
A Childhood on Paper: Managing Access to Child Care Files by Post-Care Adults
Although the potential importance of care-file information for those formerly in care has long been recognised, little is known about requests for access to such records, whether in terms of scale or how requests are dealt with. The survey reported here by Jim Goddard, Julia Feast and Derek Kirton was carried out to address this gap. It was conducted in two stages during 2004 and 2005. The first stage comprised a postal questionnaire to local aut…
After Adoption: Direct Contact and Relationships
A Childhood on Paper: Accessing Care Records under the Data Protection Act 1998
Open adoption records, the human rights of adopted people, and discrimination: The case of Odièvre v France 2003
The recent judgement by the European Court of Human Rights in the Odièvre v France case has denied some adopted people the right to access identifying information about their family of origin. Yet, in the UK, adopted people have enjoyed the right to access identifying information for many years. The evidence from practice and research has demonstrated the positive benefits adopted people and their birth and adoptive relatives have gained from an …
Long-Term Implications for Families Formed by Surrogacy or Donor-Assisted Conception
Adoption Search and Reunion: The Adoptive and Birth Parents' Perspective
Age at placement and adult adopted people's experience of being adopted
Older age at placement has long been recognized as a risk factor in successful adoption outcomes. The findings of the present study emerged as part of a larger study that looked at the adoption experiences and reunion outcomes of 472 adults who had either searched for or been sought by one or more of their birth relatives. As part of the investigation, adopted adults were asked to evaluate their adoption experience. Age at placement was used as a…
Searching, Reunion and Transracial Adoption
Derek Kirton, Julia Feast and David Howe Report on findings from qualitative interviews with transracially adopted adults, carried out as part of a research project by The Children's Society. Findings show that those adopted transracially shared many experiences with other adopted people, including almost invariably feeling that they have gained from searching and/or reunion. For many transracially adopted people, issues of racial and ethnic iden…
Work in Progress
Adopted Adults Who Search for Background Information and Contact with Birth Relatives
As part of its work with adopters, adopted people and their birth relatives, the Children's Society Post-adoption and Care Counselling Research Project is engaged in a number of studies looking at adopted people's experiences of seeking background information and contact with birth relatives. Between 1988 and 1995, project workers provided advice and counselling beyond initial contact to 366 adopted people seeking information and possible reunion…
Openness and Opportunities—Review of an Intermediary Service for Birth Relatives
In Adoption & Fostering 17 2, Julia Feast and Janet Smith considered some of the issues raised by The Children's Society's intermediary service for birth relatives. Here they describe how they have evaluated this work, and how it has influenced The Children's Society's policies and procedures
Working on Behalf of Birth Families — the Children's Society Experience
In July 1991 The Children's Society revised its policies to provide a more active service to the birth relatives of adopted people. Julia Feast and Janet Smith consider some of the issues and dilemmas which arise when agencies decide to act as intermediaries for birth family members wanting information about or contact with adopted adult relatives
Working in the Adoption Circle — Outcomes of Section 51 Counselling
Adopted Adults Who Search for Background Information and Contact with Birth Relatives
As part of its work with adopters, adopted people and their birth relatives, the Children's Society Post-adoption and Care Counselling Research Project is engaged in a number of studies looking at adopted people's experiences of seeking background information and contact with birth relatives. Between 1988 and 1995, project workers provided advice and counselling beyond initial contact to 366 adopted people seeking information and possible reunion…
A Childhood on Paper: Managing Access to Child Care Files by Post-Care Adults
Although the potential importance of care-file information for those formerly in care has long been recognised, little is known about requests for access to such records, whether in terms of scale or how requests are dealt with. The survey reported here by Jim Goddard, Julia Feast and Derek Kirton was carried out to address this gap. It was conducted in two stages during 2004 and 2005. The first stage comprised a postal questionnaire to local aut…
Access to Information: Progress and Perils
Julia Feast discusses BAAF's role in securing the right of adopted people to have access to information about their origins and how perceptions regarding this right have changed over time
A Childhood on Paper: Accessing Care Records under the Data Protection Act 1998
Searching, Reunion and Transracial Adoption
Derek Kirton, Julia Feast and David Howe Report on findings from qualitative interviews with transracially adopted adults, carried out as part of a research project by The Children's Society. Findings show that those adopted transracially shared many experiences with other adopted people, including almost invariably feeling that they have gained from searching and/or reunion. For many transracially adopted people, issues of racial and ethnic iden…
Working on Behalf of Birth Families — the Children's Society Experience
In July 1991 The Children's Society revised its policies to provide a more active service to the birth relatives of adopted people. Julia Feast and Janet Smith consider some of the issues and dilemmas which arise when agencies decide to act as intermediaries for birth family members wanting information about or contact with adopted adult relatives
Can the UK’s birth registration system better serve the interests of those born following collaborative assisted reproduction
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…
Adoptive Fathers' Experiences of Search and Reunion
Most research looking at the role of adopters in the adoption, search and reunion process has tended to focus on the experiences of either the adoptive mother or both adoptive parents as a unit. As a result, the role of the adoptive father has had a much lower profile in the literature and research available to practitioners and professionals. Julia Feast, Fiona Kyle and John Triseliotis seek to redress the balance by analysing data from a previo…
After Adoption: Direct Contact and Relationships
Working in the Adoption Circle — Outcomes of Section 51 Counselling
The Use of Discretion in a 'Cinderella' Service: Data Protection and Access to Child-Care Files for Post-Care Adults
This paper focuses on policy implementation and, in particular, the workings of ‘street-level bureaucracy’ in a small, marginalised area of welfare provision, namely post-care adults seeking access to their care records. The work arises from research mapping UK service provision in this area, via questionnaires and interviews with key actors in local authorities and voluntary organisations. The study was prompted by widespread but largely anecdot…
Age at placement and adult adopted people's experience of being adopted
Older age at placement has long been recognized as a risk factor in successful adoption outcomes. The findings of the present study emerged as part of a larger study that looked at the adoption experiences and reunion outcomes of 472 adults who had either searched for or been sought by one or more of their birth relatives. As part of the investigation, adopted adults were asked to evaluate their adoption experience. Age at placement was used as a…
Openness and Opportunities—Review of an Intermediary Service for Birth Relatives
In Adoption & Fostering 17 2, Julia Feast and Janet Smith considered some of the issues raised by The Children's Society's intermediary service for birth relatives. Here they describe how they have evaluated this work, and how it has influenced The Children's Society's policies and procedures
The British Chinese Adoption Study: Planning a study of lifecourse and outcomes
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…
Working in the Adoption Circle — Outcomes of Section 51 Counselling
Working on Behalf of Birth Families — the Children's Society Experience
In July 1991 The Children's Society revised its policies to provide a more active service to the birth relatives of adopted people. Julia Feast and Janet Smith consider some of the issues and dilemmas which arise when agencies decide to act as intermediaries for birth family members wanting information about or contact with adopted adult relatives
Openness and Opportunities—Review of an Intermediary Service for Birth Relatives
In Adoption & Fostering 17 2, Julia Feast and Janet Smith considered some of the issues raised by The Children's Society's intermediary service for birth relatives. Here they describe how they have evaluated this work, and how it has influenced The Children's Society's policies and procedures
Adopted Adults Who Search for Background Information and Contact with Birth Relatives
As part of its work with adopters, adopted people and their birth relatives, the Children's Society Post-adoption and Care Counselling Research Project is engaged in a number of studies looking at adopted people's experiences of seeking background information and contact with birth relatives. Between 1988 and 1995, project workers provided advice and counselling beyond initial contact to 366 adopted people seeking information and possible reunion…
Work in Progress
Searching, Reunion and Transracial Adoption
Derek Kirton, Julia Feast and David Howe Report on findings from qualitative interviews with transracially adopted adults, carried out as part of a research project by The Children's Society. Findings show that those adopted transracially shared many experiences with other adopted people, including almost invariably feeling that they have gained from searching and/or reunion. For many transracially adopted people, issues of racial and ethnic iden…
Age at placement and adult adopted people's experience of being adopted
Older age at placement has long been recognized as a risk factor in successful adoption outcomes. The findings of the present study emerged as part of a larger study that looked at the adoption experiences and reunion outcomes of 472 adults who had either searched for or been sought by one or more of their birth relatives. As part of the investigation, adopted adults were asked to evaluate their adoption experience. Age at placement was used as a…
Adoption Search and Reunion: The Adoptive and Birth Parents' Perspective
Open adoption records, the human rights of adopted people, and discrimination: The case of Odièvre v France 2003
The recent judgement by the European Court of Human Rights in the Odièvre v France case has denied some adopted people the right to access identifying information about their family of origin. Yet, in the UK, adopted people have enjoyed the right to access identifying information for many years. The evidence from practice and research has demonstrated the positive benefits adopted people and their birth and adoptive relatives have gained from an …
Long-Term Implications for Families Formed by Surrogacy or Donor-Assisted Conception
After Adoption: Direct Contact and Relationships
A Childhood on Paper: Accessing Care Records under the Data Protection Act 1998
A Childhood on Paper: Managing Access to Child Care Files by Post-Care Adults
Although the potential importance of care-file information for those formerly in care has long been recognised, little is known about requests for access to such records, whether in terms of scale or how requests are dealt with. The survey reported here by Jim Goddard, Julia Feast and Derek Kirton was carried out to address this gap. It was conducted in two stages during 2004 and 2005. The first stage comprised a postal questionnaire to local aut…
Access to Information: Progress and Perils
Julia Feast discusses BAAF's role in securing the right of adopted people to have access to information about their origins and how perceptions regarding this right have changed over time
Adoptive Fathers' Experiences of Search and Reunion
Most research looking at the role of adopters in the adoption, search and reunion process has tended to focus on the experiences of either the adoptive mother or both adoptive parents as a unit. As a result, the role of the adoptive father has had a much lower profile in the literature and research available to practitioners and professionals. Julia Feast, Fiona Kyle and John Triseliotis seek to redress the balance by analysing data from a previo…
The Use of Discretion in a 'Cinderella' Service: Data Protection and Access to Child-Care Files for Post-Care Adults
This paper focuses on policy implementation and, in particular, the workings of ‘street-level bureaucracy’ in a small, marginalised area of welfare provision, namely post-care adults seeking access to their care records. The work arises from research mapping UK service provision in this area, via questionnaires and interviews with key actors in local authorities and voluntary organisations. The study was prompted by widespread but largely anecdot…
The British Chinese Adoption Study: Planning a study of lifecourse and outcomes
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…
The life and work of John Triseliotis
John Triseliotis died on 29 September 2012, aged 83. He was a pioneering figure in the field of adoption and fostering whose work and policy influence will benefit social workers, researchers and others involved in adoption and child welfare for many years to come. In addition to his wider influence, John regularly reviewed books for this journal and was always very willing to comment on submissions, most recently a study of illegal practices in …
Can the UK’s birth registration system better serve the interests of those born following collaborative assisted reproduction
Letter
Psychology (16 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (5 works)