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Background
Esmeranda joined CRSP in April 2008. Her research career began in August 1992. Over the years she has acquired vast experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods.
She has been involved in academic research at the Home Science Department, University of Ghana; Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa and the Institute of Child Care Research, Belfast. The greater part of her career has been as a policy researcher with the Ghana National Commission on Children, where she focused on a range of child welfare issues and children’s rights. She obtained her PhD in 2008 from Queen’s University Belfast.
Her research interests include child welfare, child protection, children’s rights, and cross national research in children and family social policy.
Current projects
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the New Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB)
The Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), in partnership with the Centre for Children and Family Research (CCFR), undertook an evaluation of the effectiveness of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) in England. The issues covered by this study are central to the current government agenda for children’s services, underpinned by the Children Act 2004, to ensure an integrated approach to service provision and that children are safeguarded and their welfare promoted. This project, sponsored by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health, commenced in January 2008 and completed in March 2010.
Related Publication
France, A., Munro, E. R., Meredith, J., Manful, E. and Beckhelling, J. (2009) Effectiveness of the New Local Safeguarding Children Board in England: Interim Report. DCSF Report Report RR126.
Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements (FEMCIT)
This project, sponsored by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 7, commenced on 1st February 2007 and will complete in January 2011.
The project includes 10 Work Packages. Dr Line Nyhagen Predelli, leads Work Package 4. Each Work Package will gather new empirical data from three or four EU member states and aims to develop new theoretical knowledge about contemporary gendered citizenship in a multicultural context.
Sponsor: European Commission
Project related publications
Nyhagen Predelli, L., Perren, K., Halsaa, B., Thun, C. and Manful, E. (2008). Women’s Movements: Constructions of Sisterhood, Dispute and Resonance. The Case of the United Kingdom. FEMCIT WP4 Working Report No. 2, available at www.femcit.org
Sandu, A., Nyhagen Predelli, L., Halsaa, B., Thun, C. and Manful, E. (2009). Women’s Movements: Constructions of Sisterhood, Dispute and Resonance. The Case of Spain. FEMCIT WP4 Working Report No. 3, available at www.femcit.org
Recent Projects
School Sports Co-ordinator Partnership - impact study
CRSP is part of a consortium, led by the Institute of Youth Sport, which is evaluating the effectiveness of the School Sports Partnership Programme in delivering its policy objectives.
The School Sports Partnership Programme is a joint initiative of the Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and involving Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust, launched in September 2000. The programme's aims are to:
- increase the participation of school age children in sports,
- improve the standards of performance, and
- increase the number of qualified and active coaches.
The programme has so far put into post more than 8,000 key personnel, whose task it is to co-ordinate sport and sport teaching activities by creating local networks of schools linked to specialist sports colleges.
The impact study commenced in 2003 and will be completed by 2008. It has both quantitative and qualitative components. The evaluation team will gather part of the information through a questionnaire distributed to all Partnership Development Managers and to a sample of School Sport Coordinators and Primary Link Teachers. Further, more detailed, information will be gathered through a series of case studies focused on individual partnerships. Twenty in depth case studies will be compiled in each of the five years of the study. Of these, five will be longitudinal studies.
The consortium includes the Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy, the Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy Research Group, the British Heart Foundation National Centre (all based at Loughborough University), and the Centre for Developing and Evaluating Lifelong Learning (University of Nottingham). The project is being conducted in association with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Sponsor: Department of Education and Skills, Department for Media, Culture and Sport, Sport England and Youth Sport Trust
Recent Publications
Manful, E. (2010) Children's participation: radio as a medium in Ghana in Cox, S., Robinson-Pant, A., Dyer, C. and Schweisfurth, M. (eds) Children as Decision Makers in Education: Sharing Experiences Across Cultures. London: Continuum.
Journal articles
Manful, S. E. and Manful, E. (2010) Improving the lives of Ghanaian children: complementing the global agenda with a structural social work approach. International Journal of Social Welfare, 19 (1), 115–123.
Manful, E. and McCrystal, P. (2010) Conceptualisation of Children's Rights: What Do Child Care Professionals in Northern Ireland Say? Child Care in Practice, 16(1). 83-97.
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