Adoption UK: Health Intelligence and Adoption

Related content

• Research output

• A Law of Blood-ties - The 'Right' to Access Genetic Ancestry

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Genetic stigma in law and literature: orphanhood, adoption, and the right to reunion

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Accessing (familial) justice and challenging traditional norms of permanence: an analysis of recent caselaw involving (en)forced adoptions in England and Wales

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Adoption and special guardianship

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Conceptualizing the ‘right’ to avoid origin deprivation: international law and domestic implementation

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Special Issue - Introduction: origin deprivation, adoptee rights, and the need for truth recovery and redressive law reform

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Marian Hotel, a play by Caitriona Cunningham, performed at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 21–23 November 2024, directed and produced by Patricia Byrne, Sole Purpose Productions, with a cast led by Aoibh Johnson

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Activities

• Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture 10th Biennial Conference [2026]

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

• KESS (Knowledge Exchange, NI Assembly) The child’s right to genetic ancestry as a key element of the best interests principle in adoption, donor and surrogacy contexts: reforming adoption law in Northern Ireland

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar

• TRUSTEE KINSHIP CARE NI

  Activity: Consultancy types › Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation

• KEYNOTE TALK AND SEMINAR 'THE RIGHT TO ORIGIN'

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference

• Stakeholder Roundtable event for NI Assembly - Consultation re: Draft Redress and Public Inquiry Bill/ Mother and Baby Institutions] Hansard recording

  Activity: Consultancy types › Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation

• Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture - Executive Committee (External organisation)

  Activity: Membership types › Membership of board

• Avoiding Origin Deprivation and Genetic Identity Losses

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

• AdoptNI (External organisation)

  Activity: Membership types › Membership of board

• Invited contribution (as Country Expert) to the CHIP (UNICEF) assessment of Ireland’s domestic adoption system ('Developing a best practice framework and reform roadmap to enable the Government of Ireland to reform its domestic adoption system to ensure better outcomes for all parties involved, especially the child')

  Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

• Avoiding Origin Deprivation and Genetic Identity Losses - guest talk for AdoptNI

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Press/Media

• Thrivingadoptees.com Podcast

  Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

• Navigating the Holidays

  Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

• Genetic Stigma in Law & Literature: (2024) Palgrave MacMillan, SocioLegal Series)

  Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

• Two LawPod Episodes - Avoiding Origin Deprivation and Genetic Identity Losses- Interviews with Participants at the 2023 QUB Law and Humanities 4-day Symposium on Adoption and Kinship Rights. Interviewees (academics from S Korea, Australia, Sweden, Canada, and England) spoke of their research, activism, and lived experiences as adoptees/adoptive family members. Links to the symposium papers are included.

  Press/Media: Other

• Patience and Persistence Podcast for Thrivingadoptees.com

  Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

• Adoptees On Podcast Episode 284

  Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

• Prizes

• £10 k Global Research Partnership Development Award

  Prize: Other distinction