Projects:
- Foundling Museum a small exhibit in the Foundling Museum about Hannah Brown, an amazing foundling who wrote about Loss, Stigma and Shame and was published at the turn of the 20th Century.
- Care Experience & Culture, a digital archive, the first of its kind that features care experienced literature, spoken word, academic material, sport and Film/TV with initial funding from The Welland Trust.
- Conversations for care was a knowledge exchange project set up to engage people in the care community through #CareConvos, monthly Twitter chats and outreach activities at the University of Oxford.
- Care in the time of Covid was a project that explored the day to day lives of care experienced adults in the UK during COVID-19 and how they was coping and what helped them. The team also wanted to record their experiences in history.
- No Typical Care Story Dr. Delyth Edwards and Dr. Rosie Canning developed questions inspired by the data from this study, to direct informal educators in museums, heritage, and science communication.
- A Portrait of Care was a collaboration with University of Southampton, Widening Participation department and Dr Aoife O’Higgins. It was an online exhibition via Instagram using self-portraiture as a way to combat the negative stereotypes people have about children in care.
- Art Exhibition at Care Experienced Conference board member and curator with Yusuf McCormack (1963-2021) and Rod Kippen. Photography, painting, sculpture, mixed media, poetry, written work and other mediums were exhibited at the Care Experienced Conference 2019.
- Your Life Your Story 2017 & 2018 Rosie organised a writing event inviting writers and artists to run workshops which took place during Care Leavers Week.
- Every Child Leaving Care Matters set up the social media campaign and petition.
- Friern Barnet Library set up social media campaign, supporting community/occupiers to re-open library.
Articles/chapters:
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Taylor, Jonathan, Siân Pooley, Rosie Canning, Aoife O’Higgins, and Lucy Bowes, ‘The Perceived Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Care-Experienced People’, The British Journal of Social Work, 2024, bcae038
- A Portrait of Care: People who grew up in care retell their stories through art in Southampton
- Chapter ‘The Pink Cat: An exploration of the ways Care Experienced People Navigate Inheritance.’ Inheritance Matters: Kinship, Property, Law (Hart Bloomsbury; 21 Sep 2023)
- ‘Rosie Canning & Dee Michell: In Conversation.’ Fostering Families Summer Issue-2023
- ‘Every one of us has a different story’: a historic portrait of care system success Observer (July 2022)
- Children’s Commissioner for England. A digital archive of care experienced people in fiction, on screen and in real life
- Chapter ‘The Stories in my Story’ published in Brightness of Stars: Stories from Care Experienced Adults to Inspire Change – (Lisa Cherry, Routledge; 3rd edition 2022)
- A Portrait of Care: Combating the negative stereotypes people have about children in care
- A Portrait of Care: Exhibition breaks down stereotypes and stigma of being in care.
- Care Convos: A new online project engages the care community on a range of topics
- The Care Experience Conference. Write up from a talk at the Oxford Children’s Rights Network at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
- Your Life, Your Story: The Therapeutic Care Journal
- Diverse Author Day on Twitter: Words of Colour
- Chapter ‘Like a Duck to Water’ published in Steering the Mothership – (Ed. Lisa Cherry) Spring Publishing, 2014
- Various articles published for Every Child Leaving Care Matters
- Friern Barnet Library: Reopened by the Community Big Issue
- Numerous articles published in The Greenacre Times, a small community magazine.
- A good day cycling: Mass Observation Communities Online
Conferences/Talks:
- ‘Holding Homes, Shifting Seasons’. Choral Contemplations, Somerville Chapel, Somerville College, Oxford. 5 May 2024 ‘Seasons, Homes and Hiraeth in Muswell Hill’.
- The Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY), University of Sussex. 14 December 2023 – ‘Thinking through Family: Narratives of Care Experienced Lives by Prof. Janet Boddy.’
- A Portrait of Care. John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton. 15 November 2023
- Qualitative methods in studies of identities and attachment: mothers and children’s perspectives. Department of Education, University of Oxford. 31 October 2023 ‘Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked after children by Mariela Neagu.’
- London Foundling Hospital History: An Online Conference. 23-24 June 2023 – ‘What Hannah Did Next’.
- Keynote Virtual School Cheshire West & Chester Council: Books, Reading and Libraries. 16 March 2023
- Compassion and Care – Emotions and Experience in the Care of Children through History. The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester, Deansgate, M13 9PP. 23-24 March 2023 – ‘The Home’.
- Storytelling: Intangible Inheritances Oxford Brookes University, 20-21 June 2022 – ‘Inheritance and Care Experience’.
- Care Experience & Culture Book Club – Memoir & Autobiography
- Podcast – Trauma, Resonance, Resilience Feb 2021. Dee Michell and Rosie Canning join Lisa Cherry to talk about a new Digital Archive called Care Experience and Culture.
- Interview during National Care Leavers Week Oct 2020 about Portrait of Care with University of Southampton, Media Department.
- Podcast – with Emily Harrison, University of Southampton_360 Degrees about NCLW Oct 2020.
- Interview with BBC Radio Solent Oct 2020 about A Portrait of Care.
- Oxford Children’s Rights Network, Nov 2019, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford – ‘Pursuing Recognition for Care Experience People: Lessons from the Care-Experienced Conference 2019’
- The Adoption and Fostering Podcast, Oct 2019. Episode 74 – The Care Experienced Conference.
- Care Experience Conference, April 2019, Liverpool Hope University – ‘PhD Journey -Creativity and Serendipity’ and PhD Poster ‘Hiraeth’.
- English: Shared Futures, July 2017, Newcastle University – ‘Shared Responsibility: Auto/Biography and the Ethics of Representation’.
- Tenth Annual GradNet Conference: “Myth vs. Reality”, March 2017, University of Southampton – ‘The Danger of the Single Story’.
- Creativity and Serendipity, January 2017, University of Southampton – ‘From Pip to Potter to Southampton’.
- Handle with Therapeutic Care, October 2016, The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities and The Care Leavers Foundation – ‘Care Leavers in Fiction’.
- BSA Auto/Biography, The Presentation of the Self, July 2016, Wolfson College, Oxford – ‘Orphans and Care Leavers in Fiction’.
- Agency – Creating Empowerment through therapeutic childcare and education, November 2015, Glyndŵr University – ‘The impact of living in care on the construction of coherent narratives of identity and how this is represented in contemporary fiction’.
- Flying on the Ground, New Beginnings Conference, October 2014, Brathay Trust – ‘Hiraeth – Finding a Fictional Home’.
Awards:
- University of Southampton Doctoral College Director’s Award, Citizenship & Community. Helping to build and sustain the research community through an exceptional personal contribution. (2022)
- University of Southampton Humanities: awarded the Maureen Taylor Bursary, (2017).
- First Flash Fiction in Bath Bursary, (2017)
- English: Shared Futures – Travel Bursary, (2017)
- University of Southampton Humanities PGR Student Research Fund: contribution for travel and attendance at the English: Shared Futures Conference, (2017)
- University of Southampton Humanities PGR Student Research Fund: contribution for travel and attendance at the Agency – Creating Empowerment through therapeutic childcare and education Conference, (2015), BSA (British Sociological Association) Auto/Biography, Wolfson College, Oxford (2016).
Workshops:
- Your Life, Your Story Workshop, NCLW Oct 2017-2018
- Finchley in Fiction, part of Finchley Literary Festival, 2016
- The Walking Writer Workshop, part of Finchley Literary Festival, 2015
- Writers Workshop Group, 2013-2019
Writers Retreats:
- Agatha Christie’s house, Greenway, Devon. Winter 2023
- Agatha Christie’s house, Greenway, Devon. Winter 2022
- Agatha Christie’s house, Greenway, Devon. Spring 2022
- Agatha Christie’s house, Greenway, Devon. Spring 2018 & 2019
- Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, Flintshire
- Agatha Christie’s house, Greenway, Devon. Spring 2017
- St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Oxfordshire. Summer 2013-2016
Reader:
- Sensitivity Reader for author of Care Experience Novel 2022
- Sensitivity Reader for author of Care Experience Novel 2021
- Sensitivity Reader for author of Care Leaver Novel 2019
- Reader/Organiser, Greenacre Writers Short Story Competition, 2012-2016
- Sensitivity Reader for author of Care Leaver Novel, 2016
- Sensitivity Reader for author of Care Leaver Novel, 2015
- Reader for Radio Two’s 500 Words competition for children under 13, 2012-13
Book Reviews:
- Various book reviews & conversations with Care Experienced authors 2015-ongoing
- Bone by Bone (2015) by Sanjida Kay
- The Gap of Time (2015) by Jeanette Winterson
- Half a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (2015) by Katarina Bivald
- But We All Shine On – The Remarkable Orphans of Burbank Children’s Home (2014) by Paolo Hewitt
- Things we have in Common (2015) by Tasha Kavanagh
- The Paying Guests (2014) by Sarah Waters
- The Girl with all the Gifts (2014) by Mike Carey
- Liccle Bit (2015) by Alex Wheatley
- Mothering Sunday (2016) by Graham Swift
- The English Daughter (2017) by Maggie Wadey
- My Name is Leon (2016) by Kit de Waal
- The Brightness of Stars by Lisa Cherry
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Publications as editor:
- Greenacre Writers Anthology Vol 3 (co-editor, 2014
- Greenacre Writers Anthology Vol 2 (co-editor), 2013
- Greenacre Writers Anthology Vol 1 (co-editor), 2011
Fesitvals:
- Finchley Literary Festival, 2016, Talk – Orphans in Fiction with Antonia Honeywell.
- Finchley Literary Festival 2014-2016 – Organiser
- Greenacre Writers Literary Festival, 2012-2013 – Organiser