CYS events

Details of Childhood and Youth Studies Research Group events.

Ongoing virtual activities

Childhood and Youth Studies Research Group members and our colleagues are facilitating a range of virtual activities, including daytime and evening writing retreats and reading groups, open to all. If you are interested, please email our CYS Research Group for more information.

Email CYS Research Group

Past events

Annual Childhood Studies Jamboree

Date: 11 March

SIPP Project Final Webinar ─ Working with low-income communities to improve early childhood education: Lessons from an international action research project

Date: 23 April

Visit the SIPP project website

Children and Society Special Issue Launch: Conceptualising and Researching Child and Youth Activism 

Date: 24 April

Co-edited by Laura Wright, Emma Davidson, Kristina Konstantoni, Marlies Kustatscher, Karina Padilla and Kay Tisdall from the University of Edinburgh

Making Space for Coproduction with Children and Young People in Research

Date: 2 May

Child-led and free play in Non-Governmental Organisations/Third Sector and Community based initiatives: Opportunities and Challenges

Date: 15 May

Webinar co-hosts

Children and Young People Multimodal Gatherings

Date: 28 May

Facilitators
Video

Children and Young People Hub Hybrid Workshop: How to be successful in getting an ESRC Standard Grant 

Date: 25 June

CYP Thematic Hub event: Research Collaborations and Summer Social Event

Date: 25 June


Annual Childhood Studies Jamboree 2023

Date: 13 March

Children and Young People Hub Seminar Series: Health and Mental Wellbeing of Children and Young People

Manifesto making with young people: environmental politics in education | 18 May
Speakers
  • Lynda Dunlop (University of York)
  • Lizzie Rushton (IOE and UCL)
Recording and slides
Young people creating a mentally healthy society | 31 May
Speakers
  • Christina McMellon (University of Edinburgh)
  • Isla Jamieson-Mackenzie (TRIUMPH Youth Advisory Group)
Recording and slides
Youth work as initial mental health support for children and young people across Scotland and England | 31 May
Speakers
  • Andie Reynolds (University of Edinburgh)
  • Alison Ni Charraighe (Northumbia University, Newcastle)
Recording and slides
'I thought I was normal': Meanings of weight and bodies in children ─ Preliminary ‎findings of a qualitative study in Santiago, Chile | 27 June
Speaker
Recording and slides
Exploring views and understanding of wellbeing and harm in children’s competitive sport: Reflections from a youth rugby club | 27 June
Speaker
Slides

Children and Young People Thematic Hub End of Year Research Presentations and Social 

Date: 8 June 2023

Children and Young People Thematic Hub Opening Event and Methods Matching

Date: 11 Oct 2023

Book Launch Webinar: Critical Childhood Studies - Global Perspectives

Date: 9 Nov

Speakers
Further information

In conversation with Professor Genevieve Dingle

Date: 24 Nov

Hosted by: 

CYP Thematic Hub Research and Social Winter Festive Event

Date: 30 Nov


Children and young people’s voices in research: The example of World Vision UK

Date: 19 Jan

Speaker: Dr Carine Le Borgne

Videos and slides

The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Migrant deservingness in the UK’s free school meal debates

Date: 1 Feb

Speakers: Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson, UCL Social Research Institute

Video and slides

Creative participatory research in practice: finding sources of inspiration

Date: 2 Feb

Speakers:

Co-directors of the Binks Hub

Video

The Emotional Relations of Children’s Participation Rights 

Date: 1 Mar

Annual Childhood Studies Jamboree 2022

Date: 14 March

Promoting Transformative Competencies and Employability in Young People Through Outdoor Learning

Date: 5 April

Speaker: Dr Jule Hildmann

Download the slides of Dr Hildemann's presentation

CYP Hub Webinar Series on Ambivalent Activism

Dates: 6 May, 1 July, 9 Sep

Series Coordinators
  • Prof Akwugo Emejulu, University of Warwick
  • Dr Marlies Kustatscher, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Callum McGregor, University of Edinburgh

CYP Hub in-person Workshop: Participatory music and movement with children and young people

Date: 3 May

Presenters: Manuel Gomez, Yeiner Belalcazar and Julian Garcia from Mr Klaje musician collective.

CYP Hub-CREAN Online Webinar ─ Building Back Better? Learning from crises for children’s human rights

Date: 10 May

Speakers
  • Prof. Philip D. Jaffé (Professor at the University of Geneva and Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child)
  • Young people from #CovidUnder19
  • Karl Hanson (Director of the Centre for Children's Rights Studies and Full Professor in Public Law at the University of Geneva)
  • Ton Liefaard (Vice-Dean of Leiden Law School, UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights at Leiden University, the Netherlands)
  • Kay Tisdall (Professor of Childhood Policy at the University of Edinburgh)

PhD presentation: Children's experiences of living with cleft lip and palate: Stigma, emotions and ‘ambiguous agency’

Date: 26 May

Speaker: Liliana Arias-Urueña

CYP Hub Webinar: Transforming communities through youth-led social change, social innovation and social enterprises - Learning from young people’s initiatives in Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, India and Malaysia

Date: 28 June

Videos

Children and Young People Thematic Hub Opening In-person Meeting (hybrid event)

Date: 12 Oct

Building a Capabilities Framework with Children and Young People

Date: 12 October

Speaker
Video

Skills, Knowledge, and Values in Youth Voter Activism: an Informal Civic Education Case Study

Date: 15 Nov

Speaker
Slides

Children and Young People Thematic Hub Holiday Research Presentations and Social (hybrid event)

Date: 1 Dec


Webinar: Implementing Children’s Rights in Scotland – Developing Systems of Child-Friendly Complaints, Remedy and Redress | 4 February 2021

The recording and associated resources are available online (under the sub-heading 'Bringing children's rights into Scottish law').

Arts, Health, and Play Conference ─ Bridging the Gap between Arts and Play for Health and Wellbeing in Research, Policy and Practrice

Date: 15-19 February 2021

Keynote speakers
  • Dr Rosie Perkins (Reader in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music)
  • Dr Wendy Russell (Senior Lecturer in Play and Playwork at University of Gloucestershire)

Online Cross-College Childhood and Youth Research Seminar Series: Seminar 3

Date: 3 March

Topics
Speakers
  • Simona Di Folco (Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology at the School of Health in Social Science)
  • Vernon Gayle (Professor of Sociology and Social Statistics in the School of Social and Political Science)

Online Cross-College Childhood and Youth Research Seminar Series: Seminar 4

Date: 21 April

Topics
Speakers
  • Claire Houghton (Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research, School of Social and Political Science)
  • Lesley McCara (Professor of Penology, Edinburgh Law School)
  • Kay Tisdall (Professor of Childhood Policy, Moray House School of Education)

Online Cross-College Childhood and Youth Research Seminar Series: Seminar 5

Date: 26 May

Topics
  • Deaf researchers as co-enquirers
  • Social media and migrant children
Speakers

Watch Seminar 5

The 9th International Froebel Society Conference

Date: 1-4 June

Theme: Froebel 2021 - Visions of Social Justice, Equity and Integrity in the Year of Childhood

Gatekeepers or facilitators: navigating consent with young people in specific contexts

Date: 9 June

Speaker 
  • Emily Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh
Video and slides

Webinar: Women, Young Children and COVID-19: Stories from Brazil, Eswatini, Palestine and South Africa 

Date: 10 June 2021

Panellists
  • Lizette Berry, Senior Researcher, Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
  • Linda Biersteker, Senior Research Associate, Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
  • Dr Malcolm Bush, Senior research and policy consultant, International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood at PUC-Rio (Brazil)
  • Clement Dlamini, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Eswatini (Eswatini)
  • Dr Ahmed F. Fasfous, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Bethlehem, (Palestine)
  • Irene Rizzini, Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and President of the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood at PUC-Rio (Brazil)
  • Dr Fortunate Shabalala, Senior lecturer and Head of Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Eswatini (Eswatini)
  • Dr Rabab Tamish, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Bethlehem University (Palestine)

Keynote listener: Kay Tisdall, Professor of Childhood Policy at the University of Edinburgh, responded to and shared concluding reflections on the panel and audience discussion.

Further information

SIPP project website

TRIUMPH co-production webinar series: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about co-producing research with young people

Dates: 21-24 June

Presentations
  • Involving young people in research
  • Talking co-production
  • Multiple faces of Youth Advisory Groups
  • Co-production Clinic: Talk to the experts (TRIUMPH YAG members)

Discourse analysis in practice: Illuminating childhood and youth policies 

Date: 28 Sep

Presentations
Speakers
  • Chair: Autumn Roesch Marsh, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Edinburgh
  • Alexandra Jundler, PhD Student in Social Work, University of Edinburgh
  • Ruth Friskney and Fiona Morrison - Centre for Child Wellbeing and Protection at the University of Stirling
  • Laura Weiner, PhD student at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh

Child activism to end child marriage

Date: 11 Oct

Speakers
  • Dana Buzducea (Vice President, Advocacy and External Engagement, World Vision International)
  • Kay Tisdall (Professor of Childhood Policy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Lamia (Young Leader, Bangladesh)
  • Bill Forbes (Global Lead, Child Protection and Participation, World Vision International)
  • Patricio Cuevas-Parra (Director, Child Participation and Rights, World Vision International)
  • Sally Burnheim (Deputy Director, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children)
  • Mary (Young Leader, Ghana)
  • Brittany Persinger (Chair, World Vision International)
Video

From gestures to the design of early learning technologies

Date: 17 Nov

Part of the Cross-College Childhood and Youth Research Webinar Series 2021/22

Speaker
Video

SIPP Public Webinar ─ Enabling participation in early childhood education

Date: 8 Dec 

Organiser

Seminar & Book Launch ─ Schooling for One and All? Inclusion, rights and the challenge of diversity

Date: 16 Jan

Speaker: Neville Harris, Professor of Law, University of Manchester

Launch of SOCRR 2019 and the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland

Date: 28 Feb

Observatory of Children's Human Rights Scotland

No boundaries? Families, social class and the use of the public library 

Date: 23 April

Speaker: Dr Emma Davidson

'Making Children's Rights Real': The opportunities of incorporating the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Date: 27 May

Speaker: Professor Kirsten Sandberg, Univeristy of Oslo

Children's rights in the time of COVID-19

Date: 7 July

Speakers
  • Prof Laura Lundy (Co-director of hte Centre for Children's Rights, Queen's University, Belfast)
  • Dr Patricio Cuevas-Parra (Director, Child Participation and Rights, World Vision International)
  • Prof Kay Tisdall (Professor of Childhood Policy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Dr Najat Maalla M'jid (UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children)
  • Prof Ann Skelton (University of Pretoria, Member UN Committee on the Rights of the Child)

Restorative Justice in Education: Discussing international practices, exploring the future for Scotland 

Date: 28 September 2020

Speakers 
  • Professor Dorothy Vaandering, Canada
  • Dr. Maija Gellin, Finland
  • Mr. Chris Straker, England
  • Professor Gillean McCluskey, Scotland

Webinar: 31st Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

Date: 18 Nov

Speakers
  • Prof Kay Tisdall (Co-Director of Childhood and Youth Studies Research Group, University of Edinburgh)
  • Prof Ton Liefaard (Vice-Dean for Education of Leiden Law School, Prof of Children's Rights at Leiden University)
  • Dr Patricio Cuevas-Parra (Director of Child Participation and Rights, World Vision International)
Video and presentation

Connecting the linguistic, cognitive, and social dots in research on child bilingualism

Date: 9 December

Speaker
  • Antonella Sorace (Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the British Academy)
Video

7th Annual Childhood Studies Jamboree

Date: 6 March

What Do Child-Centred Practices and Spaces Look Like . . .  and Why Bother?

Date: 7 March

Speakers: Dr Lynn McNair, OBE and Luke Addison

The childhood of Ba'Aka children and their rights to education

Date: 8 March 

Speaker: Dr Urzsula Markowska-Manista, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

Language, Place and Identity: A Dissemination Workshop in Edinburgh 

Date: 11 March

Speakers
  • Professor Antonella Sorace - Director of Bilingualism Matters at University of Edinburgh
  • Louise Glen - Senior Education Officer at Education Scotland
  • Eòghan Stewart - Gaelic Professional Development Officer at SCILT
  • Jim Whanell - Chair of the Learning Committee at Bòrd na Gàidhlig

Language, Place and Identity: A Dissemination Workshop in Inverness

Date: 14 March

Speakers
  • Professor Antonella Sorace - Director of Bilingualism Matters at University of Edinburgh
  • Bernard Chisholm - Director of Education and Children's Services at Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
  • Calum Alex MacMillan - Development Manager Fèisean nan Gàidheal
  • Dr Clare Daly - Project Manager at Highland Migrant and Refugee Advocacy (HiMRA)

The Impact of Community-Based Universal Youth Work in Scotland

Date: 5 April

Speaker: Dr Ian Fyfe, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

Transforming children’s rights? Dilemmas, challenges and implementation 

Date: 1 May

Speakers
  • Professor Helen Stalford
  • Professor Kay Tisdall
  • Professor Sheila Riddell
  • Margaret Doyle
  • Annie Sorbie

Understanding children and young people's privacy

Date: 5 June 2019

Speakers
  • Dr Julian Burton (Rutgers University)
  • Hamide Elif Üzümcü (University of Padova, Italy)
Presentation slides

A CERES Conversation on 'Getting it right for every child: Is our education provision racially literate?'

Date: 20-21 June 2019

Young people's political participation in Brazil and threats to democracy

Date: 19 Sept

Speaker: Professor Irene Rizzini, Professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and President of the International Cente for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

International Day of the Girl - Exploring Child Activism to End Child Marriage

Date: 11 Oct

Download the Child Activism to End Child Marriage leaflet (PDF)

Understanding children’s ‘accommodation’ of parental separation and divorce

Date: 5 Nov

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