A portolio of research work : including an investigation of an exploration of non-resident fathers’ experiences of separation from their children, within the context of involvement in the UK family legal system, using interpretative phenomenological analysis.

The Research Dossier includes an initial review of the literature on fathers who are non-resident, due to separation or divorce, written from a social-constructionist perspective and two subsequent pieces of research. The first piece of research is a qualitative exploration of non-resident fathers’ experiences of separation from their children, within the context of involvement in the UK family legal system. The second, a quantitative piece of research, investigates the impact of fathers’ residency status i.e. resident, married/cohabiting fathers living with their children, and non-resident, on fathers’ sense of belongingness, of alienation and of positive well-being