Glasgow researcher awarded adoption services fellowship

Sharon Graham's own son was adopted 10 years ago.

Susan Ripoll

A research assistant at Glasgow University has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to develop services to help reunite adoptive children and their birth parents.

Sharon Graham will spend three weeks in Australia and three weeks in New Zealand as part of the programme.

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