Spotlight

'You Respond' FREE 134 page Guide

The You Respond. Promoting effective project participation by young people who have experienced violence. A guide to to good practice through training and development is now available.

 

 

Reading Group

For more details, see the reading group page

Latest News

Exploring Childhood Studies in the Global South: Africa in Focus Conference: 16 May

For information visit our events page.

4th International Conference 9 - 11 July

Information and registration details are on the conference page.

Newsletter

The second edition of the CSCY newsletter can bedownloaded here. Copies of previous editions can be found on our activities page.

Winner of the Childhoods Today Competition announced ...visit the Postgrad page for details.

Research Seminars

click here for details .

Guidance document on ethical considerations

... can be found on our Postgrad page.

Listen to Us Too!

Important messages from a study about the lives of disabled teenagers. Go to our Knowledge Transfer page.

CSCY Research Interest Groups

Go to our activities page.

Childhoods Today

Childhoods TodayCSCY E-journal Childhoods Today, is available on-line.

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Welcome to the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth

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The ICOSS building, the Centre's home

CSCY is an interdisciplinary research centre  for the study of childhood and youth.

It has seven core objectives:


•to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of childhood and youth that can inform policy and academic debates

 

•to break new theoretical ground in childhood and youth studies informed by the diverse experiences and perspectives of children and youth

 

•to develop methodological approaches to the study of childhood and youth that can cross disciplinary boundaries and epistemologies

 

•to become a Centre of excellence for postgraduate research in childhood and youth studies

 

•to maintain and further develop partnerships with policy and user communities, locally, nationally and internationally

 

•to build international collaborations for the comparative academic study of childhood and youth

 

•to disseminate research findings to children and young people.

 

 

 

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