Her book “Making Sense of Motherhood” was published in 2005 and explores the transition to motherhood in different cultural contexts. Tina Miller has been engaged by the World Health Organisation as an expert advisor and she has also presented her work at UNICEF headquarters in New York. 

Two parallel sessions follow the keynote address. The session titled “Supported Mothering” begins with Ellen Brady, a final year psychology student from University College Dublin, who has researched the experience of parents using an Irish parenting website. She will be followed by two speakers from the University of Huddersfield, UK. Andrew Duggan, a child and family therapist, will address mother-blame in the context of mental well-being.

His colleague Adele Jones, Professor of Childhood Studies, will reflect on a black woman’s perspective on adoption and mothering, framed in a letter to a social worker. Last in this session is Fionnuala O’Fiannachta, Celbridge La Leche League, who will give a personal perspective on supporting mothering in modern Ireland.

Máire Leane, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies in UCC, begins the second parallel session called “Constructing Mothers”. She will use a feminist approach in her discussion of how we can understand mothers, mothering and motherhood in contemporary Ireland.

She is followed by Noelia Igareda, associate professor of Philosophy and Law at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Igareda’s topic is motherhood as a subject of law. Angela O’Connell, a PhD student from National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) will discuss ideals of motherhood from a lesbian feminist standpoint in her talk. Concluding this session is the VOICE group, with the title “The Mother of Consumerism: Why We Feel Our Newborn Will Only Be Happy in a €1000 Buggy!”

VOICE is a European research collective exploring motherhood from a consumer perspective and will be represented by the three Irish-based members Lisa O’Malley, senior lecturer in marketing (UL), Andrea Prothero, associate professor in marketing (UCD) and Susi Geiger, senior lecturer in marketing (UCD).

  For more information about the speakers and the programme please see the website www.armi.ie

The Conference takes place on Saturday, May 24, O’Rahilly Building, Room 156 commencing at 9.30am.

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