A challenging, emotive, important and invigorating day at the second Workshop of HauntingIssues in collection with NSCAP in Leeds. Thank you to the practitioners for sharing their knowledge and experience with us of Spectral children and ghosts in the nursery of therapy.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our second workshop yesterday, to Lucy Arnold for organising, and to NSCAP in Leeds for hosting. What a productive and powerful day, full of interdisciplinary exchange!

Delighted to be in Dublin for a round table on The Spectral Child and the Law. This conversation will bring together creative writers, clinicians and legal scholars to think about a range of topics pertaining to the law and the child, both historically and in our present moment.

Scholars of childhood, borders and haunting: Following HauntingIssues workshop 1 in June 23, abstracts are sought for a proposal for a special issue of Children's Geographies ‘The Spectral Child at the Border’ See link for further details of the proposed issue: 1drv.ms/w/s!Al7Lm7fsUV…

Visit our Blog for a new post from Lucy Arnold on ‘The Kids Who [Don’t] Come Back: Thoughts on “Ghost Children” and the Post-Covid Education Landscape’ sway.cloud.microsoft/GDltIdiqxke4eZ…

HauntingIssues have our final workshop today at the wonderful Common Room, Newcastle. Looking forward to a day with of discussions around the Spectral Child and the Anthropocene.

A wonderful welcome to Newcastle and to the day from our Co-I Professor Katy Shaw who gave an exciting update on what the network has achieved to date.

Our second session of the morning saw colleagues from New Writing North update us on one of the engagement projects which has emerged from the network - a creative writing initiative with students from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community.

The excellent Dr Emily Vincent (dremilyvincent.bsky.social) starting our first academic panel with a discussion of the spectral child and the eco gothic.

Ahead of our 'Spectral Child on Screen' film festival Hyde Park Picture House Lucy Arnold has written a contribution to the Hyde Park Picture House journal, on the phenomena of the cinematic ghost child in contemporary film. You can read it here: hpph.co.uk/journal/phanto…

Such a pleasure to introduce our final screening for the Spectral Child on Screen series. Abrahamson’s ‘The Little Stranger’ remains profoundly eerie, poignant and beautiful. Huge thanks to Hyde Park Picture House for collaborating with us.