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As a legacy to Pat Engle, the Bernard van Leer Foundation, along with her friends and colleagues, have established the Patrice L Engle Dissertation Award For Global Early Child Development to provide opportunities for junior scholars from or working in developing countries to conduct dissertation research in global early child development.
The creation of the BCTR in 2011 represents a consolidation and expansion of programs and resources previously housed in the Family Life Development Center and the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center.
The Center will foster research to understand and discover solutions to human problems across multiple levels of analysis (individual, interpersonal, community, organizational, governmental), as well as to identify, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based and cost-efficient practices and programs. The BCTR will also focus on research that informs policy issues and debates. Further, the Center will engage stakeholders at the local, state, and national levels in more effective partnerships with CHE researchers. In these efforts, the Center responds to the call in the University Strategic Plan to “strongly connect extension and outreach to on-campus research and educational strengths.”
Established in 1991 to increase the number of lawyers working in children's rights, the Programme on International Rights of the Child was the first university based centre on the international rights of the child.
Building a Region Fit for Children: Promoting Child Rights Through Research is the title of the third annual Caribbean Child Research Conference, to be held in Jamaica 21 - 22 October. Researchers, policy makers and practitioners will meet to discuss the role of research in strengthening children's rights in the region.
Registration is now open for the 2013 Early Childhood Summit in Boston, co-sponsored by the Boston Children's Museum, the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, and Strategies for Children. This daylong summit on Friday, April 5, 2013, will bring together neuroscientists, pediatricians, educators, business and museum professionals, and policymakers to develop a broad partnership dedicated to improving outcomes for children.
The seminar was organized by the Research Program on Infancy and Childhood- Documentation Center at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. The objective was to discuss central issues on childhood agency in diverse social contexts and the changing implications of the role that adults may have in its promotion as facilitators, mediators or promoters of this process.
This conference will bring together papers that discuss the extent of inequalities in key indicators of children’s human capital and well-being, especially how inequalities change and evolve, and the factors that mitigate or reinforce early inequalities and explain their evolution over time.
In October 2009, Childwatch Latin American and the Caribbean Regional Network organised a regional meeting in Buenos Aires at the Universidad Lomas de Zamora. The Regional Network also organized a conference with the title Calidad de Vida y Derechos de los Niños, Niñas y Jovenes en América Latina.
The Childwatch Central and Eastern Europe Regional Network has identified the care of children in institutionalized settings as one of the most important topics for vulnerable groups of children in the CEE region. A regional seminar on the topic, titled “Children in Care”, was organized in the Czech Republic in September 2010 in Department of Social Work, Charles Unversity in Prague. Participants represented institutions in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, USA, Great Britain and Norway. Main organizer was PhDr. Hana Pazlarová representing Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at Charles University in Prague.
Established in 2003, Institute for Labour and Family Research – ILFR (formerly Centre for Work and Family Studies) has research work as its main activity. It is focused on the sociological study in the field of social and family policy, labour market and employment policy, industrial relations and working conditions and in the field of occupational safety and health. Current priorities are social protection and support for young researchers.
December issue of the Center on the Developing Child newsletter includes; Working paper: The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain; A study on the effects of global adversity, two generations at a time, and a special journal supplement Journal Features Center Affiliates' Work on Biology of Early Adversity.
www.developingchild.harvard.edu
Young Lives is a unique 15-year study of 12,000 children in 4 countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) that aims to challenge policymakers to effect change. Young Lives newsletter includes all the latest news, research, analysis and events.
The Structured PhD in Child and Youth Research in association with the Children's Research Centre, School of Social Work and Social Policy and Trinity International Development Initiative is pleased to host a Public Lecture by Dr. Virginia Morrow, Young Lives, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
Place: Neil Hoey Theatre, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
Time: Monday 29th April 2013, 4pm
This special issue showcases research on the 90% of the world's adolescents growing up in the “majority world” (i.e., Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean). Articles were solicited that addressed three focal areas by (1) evaluating existing developmental models or proposing culturally based approaches to studying adolescent development; (2) describing successful models of interventions to improve the well-being of youth; and (3) examining how global factors are experienced locally by adolescents.
5th Annual Greenville Family Symposium Changing the Culture: Towards Healthy and Just Communities.
Student pre-conference: The Rights of People with Disabilities.
April 11-12, 2013
Deadline for Abstracts: January 21st, 2013
Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group - call for submission of articles to the fourth issue of the CP MERG Newsletter to be published in June.
Deadline Monday 21 May 2012
Three Childwatch International member institutions will take part in a new international project funded by Jacobs Foundation, Zurich. CINDE Colombia , NOVA Norway and The University of Girona, Spain , will join other prominent research institutions world wide in an interdisciplinary research project for child-wellbeing.
This special issue showcases research on the 90% of the world's adolescents growing up in the “majority world” (i.e., Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean). Articles were solicited that addressed three focal areas by (1) evaluating existing developmental models or proposing culturally based approaches to studying adolescent development; (2) describing successful models of interventions to improve the well-being of youth; and (3) examining how global factors are experienced locally by adolescents.
International Social Service and the International Reference Centre for the Rights of Children Deprived of their Family (ISS/IRC) have published the last monthly review n°02/2013.
Young People Leaving Care: Supporting Pathways to Adulthood By Mike Stein, explores the journey from care to adulthood through the main challenges these young people face: in being in settled accommodation, in fulfilling their potential in education, employment or training, and in achieving and maintaining good health and a positive sense of wellbeing.
Presented by Sallie Newell and Anne Graham
Centre for Children and Young People, Southern Cross University
Lismore, Australia
Contact: Tel 02 66203613 Fax 02 66203243 Email:
ccyp [at] scu.edu.au
For more info: http://ccyp.scu.edu.au/index.php/68/