On Monday, May 4, the University of Lille hosted the closing session of the CPED «Parenting» working group.
For a year, this group has gathered a fortnight of establishments around a common goal: to tangibly equip higher education and research to build equality policies considering all family structures.
This morning was an opportunity to present four resources stemming from this collective work—lexicon, documentation, practical guide (to be published), and mapping—intended as directly usable resources for institutions. Many thanks to Lucille Marissal, Angelina Etiemble, Hermeline Pernoud, and Anaël Jeannin for coordinating this working group and presenting the deliverables, as well as to all the contributors.
Two round tables allowed us to deepen these issues starting from supplementary remarks :
- The first one, hosted by Christine Morin Messabel, Vice-President for Equality, Discrimination, VSS, and Social Action at Lumière University Lyon 2, was dedicated to Parental inclusivity :
- Christine Gruson, a sociologist at the University of Lille, shared her work on mothers with intellectual disabilities.
- Romain Quesnel, Head of Student Life at the University of Poitiers and co-director of the Student Life Network (R2VE), presented their initiatives for student parents.
- The second animated video by Léa Gimenez, Project Manager for Professional Equality at the University of Lille, was dedicated to work-life balance :
- Laura Verquere, a lecturer at the University of Lille and winner of the CPED’s 2024 dissertation prize, highlighted the challenges surrounding paternity leave and, more broadly, the balance between personal and professional life in higher education and research
- Alizée Letellier, project manager for equality and quality of work life at Grenoble INP – UGA, presented their parental support program.
Thank you to the teams at the University of Lille for their welcome, and to everyone present for the richness of the discussions.
CPED is therefore pleased to share its second deliverable with you: Resources on Parenthood. For a Culture of Equality in Higher Education and Research. Its objective is to provide an initial overview of the literature on parenting in the broadest sense. You will find very diverse resources there (suggestions of researchers to invite to events, journals, books, comics, podcasts, scientific articles, etc.) classified by themes (parenting with disabilities, conjugal and intra-familial violence), with the same structure as the Glossary of Parenting to maintain consistency.
Click the image to download the deliverable:
The third resource produced by the CPED working group is a National mapping of structures supporting parenting. To better support the equality and diversity missions of higher education institutions and members of the university community, we offer a census of associations (blue) and structures (orange) Recommended locales by members of CPED, who assist all families without distinction. For each center, you will find the activities offered (parenting coffee hours, legal support, themed workshops, etc.), the topics covered (LGBTQI+/queer parenting, adolescence, domestic and intra-family violence), as well as the target audience: adults and/or minors.
For any requests for additions, please do not hesitate to write to us, this first version may be updated later.