Daily Archives: March 9, 2026

When Gifted Children Became Subjects

Non-Verbal Testing, Hypnosis, and the Experience of Being Studied Institutional Context: Bristol in the 1980s During the 1970s and 1980s, research into children’s cognition expanded significantly across the United Kingdom. Educational psychologists, universities, and schools increasingly explored non-verbal intelligence, spatial … Continue reading

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How Race Shapes Systemic Responses to Abuse in Foster Care:

An Analysis Informed by Lived Experience in the 1980s and 1990s Introduction Entering foster care as a mixed race child meant entering a system already structured by racialised assumptions about vulnerability, behaviour, and credibility. From the outset, I was placed … Continue reading

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