Postgraduate Contact

For information regarding CSCY Postgraduate events please contact:

Dawn Lessels
Tel:  0114 222 6069
Fax:  0114 222 8341
E-mail: d.j.lessels@shef.ac.uk

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Postgraduate Information

Childwatch

Childwatch International recognises
the journal Childhoods Today as an excellent
model to promote the development of
young scholars.

 

Childhoods Today Prize

In 2010 the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth (CSCY), which produces the journal, Childhoods Today, launched a prize for the
best article to be published in the journal in 2010 and 2011. After reading all the articles published in those 2 years, the panel of 3 judges set up by CSCY has chosen the following article for the prize: Tadesse Jaleta Jirata's 'Changes of Position Cause Changes of Relation: Insights for Reflexive Ethnographic Research with Children', Vol. 5, Issue 1 (August 2011). We would like to congratulate Tadesse on this accomplishment and would also like to thank the judges for giving us their time.

Due to the success of this competition we are £100 in vouchers for the best article in 2012/2013 to be published in Childhoods Today.


 Guidance document on ethical considerations in research with children and young people

Ethical considerations in research with children and young people occur at all stages of the research process. They should be considered as an ongoing and reflexive part of the research process throughout the life of a research project. A copy of a CSCY ethical document can be downloaded here.


Collaborative Ethnography as a model for public engagement and knowledge exchange
A series of mini seminars for post graduate and early career researchers


To increase public engagement and facilitate knowledge exchange we need to find ways to increase collaboration, adopt community perspectives and disseminate our findings beyond an academic audience.

This project proposes collaborative ethnography as a powerful research approach for achieving these ends. A series of mini seminars and a major seminar will explore collaborative ethnographic research as a vehicle for public engagement and knowledge transfer. We are interested in exploring the process of dialogue and action research between researchers, community research participants and policy makers.

A series of mini seminars for post graduate students and early career researchers will provide a forum to share practice and experiences, and to debate the challenges and questions that arise when we seek to give ownership and steer of research to those whom the research seeks to benefit.

Who is it for: post graduate and early career researchers from across all faculties of University of Sheffield who are interested in collaboration in research and ethnographic approaches.


When: the first mini seminar will focus on collaboration in research design, and will take place 27th April in the morning
Who: for more information, to discuss your involvement n the mini seminars or to book a place, please contact Abi Hackett a.hackett@sheffield.ac.uk. Deadline for booking a place on the first seminar is 20th April.

 

Recent event

Wednesday 21st March, 10.00-4.00pm, ICOSS

Innovatory Methods in Qualitative Research with Children and Young People.

 

This was a a research day for postgraduate students, we were very excited to be able to offer two key note speakers at this conference.  Both speakers are working at the cutting edge of their areas in terms of research methods and talked through their methods and their approach to data analysis. 

Julia Bishop has extensive experience as a folklorist and researching traditions and tropes in children's playground games. A recent ESRC funded projects carried out across The Institute of Education  in London, and The School of Education at The  University of Sheffield has also documented findings at The British Library. You can find information here: http://www.bl.uk/playtimes

More recently Julia has been exploring ways of using 'head cameras' to understand the experience of being involved in children's clapping games. 

We were also very lucky to be able to welcome Camilla Morelli who has recently returned from the Amazon where she has been gathering further data. She talked about her collection and analysis of children's drawings. 

Following on from this were several presentational workshops where after short presentations delegates were able to participate in making sense of data and discussing analytical approaches. 

Programme :

11-12.00 - RJulia Bishop: Reasons for Rhythm: Multimodal Perspectives on Musical Play

12.00 – 12.45 Camilla Morelli: Concrete paths in the rainforest: children's drawings and imagining in peruvian Amazonia

12.45-1.45 Lunch and networking

1.45 -2.30 – Parallel Session One:  Choose from - Alice Palmer and Karen Nina I Danao

2.30-3.15 – Parallel Session Two: Choose from - Melanie Hall and Dylan Yamada Rice

3.15-3.30 plenary - sharing plans for next CSCY post-graduate sessions.

Over 25 students attended this event.

 

ICOSS building

 

 

Childhoods Today eJournal

Details are available for our Childhoods Today eJournal.

Past Events

We have a page with details of past postgraduate events at CSCY.

Past Summer School Events for Postgraduates

Details are available on the summer school page.

Current research students and their topics

Our postgraduate students are involved in a wide variety of research. There's a list of students and their topics which will give you an idea of the scope of research that we do.