Invited and keynote academic presentations
Main, G. (2019) ‘Child poverty and well-being: The importance of children’s perspectives’. Child Maltreatment and Well-being: Challenges across borders, research and practices. Berlin, March 21st-22nd.
Main, G. (2018) ‘A Work in Progress: Incorporating children into theorising, defining and measuring child poverty’. Fifth Peter Townsend Memorial Conference, Bristol, November 2018 (invited).
Main, G. (2017) ‘Fair Shares and Families: A study of intra-household allocation between adults and children in the UK’. Presented as part of the University of New South Wales Social Policy Research Centre Seminar Series, October 2017 (invited).
Main, G. (2016) ‘Children’s access to material resources and subjective well-being in 15 diverse countries’. Fourth Peter Townsend Memorial Conference, Bristol, July 2016 (invited).
Main, G. (2016) ‘Youth unemployment in Australia and the UK’. Presented as part of the University of New South Wales Social Policy Research Centre Seminar Series, April 2016 (invited).
Main, G. (2014) ‘Child poverty and social exclusion in the UK’. Presented as part of the University of New South Wales Social Policy Research Centre Seminar Series, December 2014 (invited).
Bradshaw, J. and Main, G. (2014) ‘How many poor and deprived children are there in the UK?’. Presented at the Third Peter Townsend Memorial Conference: Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK in London, June 2014 (invited).
Main, G. and Bradshaw, J. (2014) ‘What do children need?’. Presented at the Third Peter Townsend Memorial Conference: Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK in London, June 2014 (invited).
Main, G. (2014) ‘Childhood poverty, inequality, and social exclusion’. Speaker at the International Conference of the Fondazione Zancan in Padua, Italy, June 2014 (invited plenary).
Invited and keynote policy and practice presentations
Main, G. (2020) ‘Including children’s perspectives on child poverty’. Child in the City International Seminar in Leeds, November 21st-22nd.
Main, G. (2019) ‘Finding children in ‘child poverty’: Participatory approaches’. Human Rights City York conference, December 10th.
Main, G. (2019) ‘Children, Families and Disadvantage’. DWP Areas of Research Interest workshop, London, January 19th.
Main, G. (2014) ‘Child poverty and social exclusion in Scotland and the rest of the UK’. Presented at the Poverty and Social Exclusion in Scotland and the UK conference in Edinburgh, August 2014 (invited).
Main, G. (2012) ‘Poverty, material deprivation, and children’s well-being’. City of York Council No Wrong Door conference on 23/10/12 (invited).
Main, G. (2011) ‘Using children’s understandings of poverty to inform child poverty measurement’. Presented to the Children’s Society Roundtable in Portcullis House on 31/10/11 (invited).
Academic conference presentations
Main, G. (2022) ‘Barriers to Education: What children tell us about how poverty prevents school engagement in the UK’. 8th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators, Brazil, May 25th.
Main, G. (2019) ‘Child poverty in research, policy and practice’. Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators, Estonia, August 27th-29th.
Main, G. (2018) ‘Fair Shares and Families: Developing a child-centric model of intra-household sharing’. Childhood Vulnerability Conference, Frankfurt, December 2018.
Main, G. (2018) ‘Fair Shares and Families: Investigating children’s and families’ perspectives on intra-household sharing’. FISS Conference, Sigtuna, June 2018.
Main, G. and del Moral-Espin, L. (2018) ‘Towards a Children-Centric Approach to Child Poverty’. European Sociological Association RN04 Conference, Lisbon, May 2018.
Main, G. (2018) ‘Fair Shares and Families: A child-centric model of intra-household sharing’. Childhood and Materiality Conference, Jyvaskyla, May 2018.
Smith, A. and Main, G. (2017) ‘Missing Out: Adapting a UK child-derived deprivation index for Canadian youth’. ISCI Conference, Montreal, June 2017.
Main, G. (2017) ‘Fair Shares and Families: Early findings from a UK study on children’s and families’ perspectives on intra-household allocation’. ISCI Conference, Montreal, June 2017.
Main, G. (2016) ‘Children’s access to material resources and subjective well-being in 15 diverse countries’. BERA Conference, Leeds, September 2016.
Main, G. (2016) ‘Child poverty in the UK in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis’. Foundation for International Studies on Social Security Conference, Sigtuna, June 2016.
Main, G. (2016) ‘Children’s access to material resources and subjective well-being in 15 diverse countries’. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, London, June 2016.
Main, G. (2015) ‘Intra-household distributions and children’s subjective well-being’. Presented at the International Society for Child Indicators Conference in Cape Town, September 2015.
Main, G. (2015) ‘Youth unemployment in Australia and the UK’. Presented at the International Society for Child Indicators Conference in Cape Town, September 2015.
Main, G. (2015) ‘Inequality, material well-being, and subjective well-being: Exploring associations for children across 15 diverse countries’. Presented at the International Society for Child Indicators Conference in Cape Town, September 2015.
Main, G. (2015) ‘Youth unemployment in Australia and the UK’. Presented at the Social Policy Association Annual Conference in Belfast, July 2015.
Bradshaw, J. and Main, G. (2014) ‘The impact of austerity on children’s well-being’. Presented at the Social Policy Association Annual Conference in Sheffield, July 2014.
Bradshaw, J. and Main, G. (2014) ‘Austerity: Children are the victims in the UK’. Presented at the Questioning Austerity: Realities and Alternatives Conference in York, July 2014.
Main, G. and Bradshaw, J. (2013) ‘Child poverty and deprivation’. Presented at the Social Policy Association Conference in Sheffield, July 2013.
Main, G. and Bradshaw, J. (2013) ‘Children’s necessities’. Presented at the Social Policy Association Conference in Sheffield, July 2013.
Main, G. (2013) ‘Overlaps in dimensions of child poverty – comparing parents’ and children’s conceptions’. Presented at the International Society for Child Indicators Conference in Seoul in May 2013.
Main, G. (2012) ‘A child-derived material deprivation index’. Presented at the International Society for Child Indicators ESF PhD Mentoring Workshop, in Heidelberg on 13/9/12.
Main, G. (2012) ‘Child poverty, child deprivation, and children’s subjective well-being’. Presented at the Social Policy Association Conference in York on 17/7/12.
Main, G. (2011) ‘Developing a child-centric measure of child poverty’. Presented at the International Society for Child Indicators Conference in York on 27/7/11.
Hampden-Thompson, G. and Main, G. (2011) ‘Educational outcome and indicators of young people in England by family structure’. Presented at the International Society for Child Indicators conference in York on 27/7/11.
Policy and practice conference presentations
Main, G. and Mahony, S. (2018) ‘Fair Shares and Families’. Launch event for policy makers and practitioners, London, September 2018.
Main, G. (2017) ‘Fair Shares and Families’. Presentation to the Cevea International Summit on Child Poverty, Copenhagen, December 2017 (invited and funded).
Main, G. (2017) ‘Fair Shares and Families: How can children’s experiences and perspectives on poverty help in policy development?’. Department for Education SARD seminar series, delivered on May 16th (Sheffield) and June 12th (London) to DfE civil servants (invited and funded).
Main, G. (2016) ‘Child poverty and social exclusion’. Contribution to panel discussion on ‘What are the Causes of Social Exclusion?’, held at Chatham House, London on 16/9/16 (invited).
Invited speaker roles
2023: Invited speaker at the ATD Fourth World event on child poverty in the UK.
2022: Invited speaker at the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls.
2022: Invited speaker at the UNICEF Pakistan National Dialogue on ‘Putting Children First: Identifying Issues and Defining Solutions to Address Children’s, Especially Girls’, Deprivation in Pakistan’.
2021: Invited speaker at the 2021 United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child International Day of Discussion on the Rights of Children in Alternative Care.
Convenor and chair roles
Convenor and chair of two panels on ‘Child Poverty and Children’s Subjective Well-being’ at the International Society for Child Indicators conference in Montreal, June 2017.