# Event Details - **Event Name**: Book Launch: Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join the Critical Childhood Studies Centre in welcoming author Brenda Herbert (UCL Social Research Institute).About this EventThe Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse: Looking Beyond the Trauma LensBy Brenda Herbert (Policy Press/Bristol University, February 2026)Discussions on children who have experienced domestic abuse often focuses on trauma and risks, and little is known about their lives beyond abuse. This risks pathologising children and reinforcing colonial and patriarchal social norms. This groundbreaking book challenges dominant narratives by drawing on an 18-month multimodal ethnography with children in an inner London borough.Offering a radical and holistic perspective on children’s personhood, this book situates their everyday lives within broader global debates on childhood, decolonisation and social justice. It engages with the works of Black feminist, decolonial and Indigenous scholars, calling for a fundamental rethinking of how we support and understand children who have experienced domestic abuse.ABOUT THE EVENTWe are pleased to have Dr Kirrily Pells (UCL) and Dr Utsa Mukherjee (Brunel) as respondents to the book.Open to all. Please register to attend. This book launch is organised by the Critical Childhood Studies Centre. The Centre is a home for world-leading scholarship about childhood as a socio-political, cultural, and historical phenomenon in diverse global contexts. The Centre provides a focal point for faculty and students at all levels in UCL to engage in innovative and multi-disciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement geared towards achieving social justice with and for children and young people.For more information, email us at critical.childhood@ucl.ac.uk or join our mailing listAbout the SpeakersBrenda HerbertBritish Academy Post-doctoral Fellow at UCL Social Research InstituteHer research project is titled 'The (Un)Making of Happy Childhoods'. It is a multimodal ethnography with primary school aged children. Brenda's previous research was with children who had experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention. She was the Sociological Review Fellow 2024/25, and her PhD thesis will be published as a monograph by Policy Press/Bristol University Press in February 2026.More about Brenda HerbertKirrily PellsAssociate Professor in Childhood at UCL Social Research InstituteMy research, teaching and public engagement are in the field of critical childhood studies and my work concerns global childhoods and children's rights especially in relation to violence, memory, peace, and social justice. Across my research projects is a focus on creative arts, arts-based methods, and co-production. At UCL I am a member of the Critical Childhood Studies Research Group.More about Kirrily PellsUtsa MukherjeeSenior Lecturer in Education at Department of Education, Brunel University of LondonUtsa's research interests broadly centre around the following axes: Children's everyday lives with a particular focus on generational order, parenting strategies, and children's agency; Intersection of race and class within parenting ideologies and family practices; Reproduction of social inequalities in the context of leisure; Critical race theory approaches to the study of childhood and parenting; South Asia and global South Asian diaspora; Critical sexuality studies.More about Utsa Mukherjee - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/book-launch-everyday-lives-of-children-who-have-experienced-domestic-abuse/100001974982229012 - **Event Categories**: art, sports, workshops, fine-arts, literary-art, nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Room 822, UCL Institute of Education - **lat**: 51.52301629999999 - **long**: -0.1279042 - **full address**: Room 822, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Book Launch: Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/0ed5951780dc6f28a11d4488a4890b635914bc66170eefbd8011e9edf560c39b-rimg-w1200-h675-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1763803018 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Book Launch: Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse being held? - **A:** Book Launch: Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse takes place on Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Room 822, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Book Launch: Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse? - **A:** Book Launch: Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse is organized by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS). ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Book Launch: Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/0ed5951780dc6f28a11d4488a4890b635914bc66170eefbd8011e9edf560c39b-rimg-w1200-h675-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1763803018", "startDate": "2026-03-12", "endDate": "2026-03-12", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/book-launch-everyday-lives-of-children-who-have-experienced-domestic-abuse/100001974982229012", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Room 822, UCL Institute of Education", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "20 Bedford Way", "postalCode": "WC1H 0AL", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.52301629999999", "longitude": "-0.1279042" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join the Critical Childhood Studies Centre in welcoming author Brenda Herbert (UCL Social Research Institute).", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-12", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/book-launch-everyday-lives-of-children-who-have-experienced-domestic-abuse/100001974982229012" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/book-launch-everyday-lives-of-children-who-have-experienced-domestic-abuse/100001974982229012", "price": 0, "name": "Attendance in-person at UCL" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/ucl-institute-of-advanced-studies-ias/22749917", "description": "The UCL Institute of Advanced Studies is a space dedicated to intellectual freedom where disruptive thinking is not only allowed but encouraged and supported. 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