Lived Experience of Adoption Reunion

13/09/2022

Hi All

I wanted to say a big thank you to those members of the various groups that have participated in my research. It has been really wonderful to hear your adoption reunion journey, and I feel extraordinarily privaledged to have been able to spend that time with you.

If anyone else is interested, I will be doing interviews up to the end of November. Please feel free to email me at pg512@live.mdx.ac.uk

18/08/2022

I wanted to say a big 'thank you' to all the Groups that have allowed me to post about my research. The response has been completely overwhelming. I am working through the responses and will email / Facebook message all that have replied to my posts.

18/07/2022

18/07/2022

An update on my research:
I have changed my participant criteria, which was approved by the ethics committee via chair action. The new criteria are as follows:
1) Age Criteria: 25 years of age to 75 years of age
2) Time since reunion: minimum 1 year since reunion
3) Time post reunion: Maximum 10 years post reunion

I am going to be setting up interviews starting 26th September.

If you are eligable and would like to take part please do contact me.

23/02/2022

Thank you to Adopt South West for your support

https://www.facebook.com/AdoptSouthWest

We particularly need families to adopt siblings, older children and children with additional needs. Please consider adopting across all age ranges and stages of life: 0 to 2 years, 1 to 3 years, 2 to 4 years and older.

16/02/2022

Thank you to Adoption Family Finder for the support
https://www.facebook.com/Adoption-Family-Finder-1013362648704170/

Adoption Family Finder's is dedicated to helping adoptees and biological family find each other and bring about change in the secrecy related to adoptions.

12/02/2022

Update on Research
Over the past few months I have had a great deal of interest in the study. Thank you to everyone that responded, expressed an interest or reached out to make contact. Also, A big thank you to those that have shared the research with others.

Unfortunately, the interest I have had has not come from the research population I am interested in. This has promted me to consider changing my populaton crieteria. I have thought long and hard over this and decided to continue with my original criteria, that being:
1) An age range of individuals between 25 - 35 years
2) Have found one or more biological parent/s
3) It has been at least 2 years since reunion
4) It has been no longer than 5 years since reunion

I would like to try for a bit longer to find indivuiduals within these parameters as I do feel they are under represented in the current literature.

25/10/2021

Thank you to PAC-UK for their support and for sharing my research request for participants.

https://www.facebook.com/PACUKAdoption/

Specialist therapy, advice, support, counselling & training for all affected by adoption & permanency