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Professor Adele Jones
HAVING completed vital research into child abuse and how it can be prevented, Professor Adele Jones is determined to ensure that her findings reach a global audience. So now she will talk to the world…
A webcast is the most up-to-date way that academic experts can conduct a seminar, deliver a lecture or hold a conference that has no global boundaries. But although Adele, who is professor of Childhood Studies at Huddersfield, was once a participant in a web-based seminar organised by the World Health Organisation, this will be the first time that she and her work have been the focus.
The event takes place on Tuesday, 3 August, and has been arranged by the international organisation Stop It Now!, which works against child abuse. Adele will travel to the Stop It Now! headquarters in Massachusetts, USA, in order to deliver the webcast, which will consist of three 50-minute sessions in which she presents key findings from her 2009 study of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean, carried out with Action for Children, commissioned by UNICEF and partly funded by the Department for International Development.
“It will be a very demanding day, but a fantastic thing to do,” says Adele. She will not speaking continually for every 50-minute session, because there will be breaks while she deals with questions posted by registered participants. And although Adele will be addressing an audience on the World Wide Web, there will be a gathering of fellow experts in the studio.
The webcast is scheduled to begin at 9am Eastern Daylight Time in the USA on 3 August, meaning that the session begins at 2pm in the UK. Would-be participants can register by visiting http://www.stopitnow.com/latest_news_caribbean_research_webcast. The aim is that the webcast will attract participants from all around the world, including the Caribbean, India and Africa.
Adele’s research was into the problem of child abuse in the Caribbean but she says that her findings and her methodology are globally relevant and she has been contacted by people working in the field around the world.
Having completed the research in 2009, Adele is now deeply involved in the all-important follow-up phase.
“We are seeking to demonstrate that our research has impact,” she says. “A lot of work is going into the dissemination of our findings. The webcast will be an important part of this.”
Meanwhile, Adele has been so impressed by the work of Stop it Now! that moves are being made to cement a close relationship between the organisation and the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Applied Childhood Studies, of which Adele is the Director. The hope is that there will be collaborative research, further work in the Caribbean and a PhD scholarship.
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