Senior Lecturer, Department of Education and Community Studies, University of Huddersfield
Dr James Reid, is a senior lecturer in childhood studies at the University of Huddersfield. He qualified as a social worker and worked with children and families before moving to university teaching and research. He has undertaken projects developing services for vulnerable individuals and communities including working with Unicef in central Asia. More recently, his work has centred on the sociology of maternal and child health and questions of how women's experiences are understood and mediated by policy and practice. He has undertaken extensive scoping work in Finland, Vietnam and Zambia to understand the 'baby box' phenomenon and the potential of continuing colonisation.
Baby box: child welfare experts say use of sleep boxes could potentially put infants' lives at risk
Jan 27, 2020 03:21 am UTC| Life
Having a baby can be expensive. So its maybe not surprising that many retailers around the world have cottoned on to the success of Finlands baby boxes a package aimed to set up new parents and their bundle of joy. The...
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