An International Symposium for Practitioners, Policy Makers, and Students in Social and Health Sciences.
Deadline for submission of Abstracts for Panels, Papers, and Posters and for applications for student scholarships: December 15, 2011
The Child Helpline International has issued a Briefing Paper about the psychological and mental health issues of children in top 9 HDI countries in 2010. CHI intends to publish such papers periodically.
The ISA Forum will be organised in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 1-4, 2012. The Forum will provide an array of opportunities for a global dialogue about transformative change.
Online abstract submission from August 25 to December 15, 2011.
The Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) programme is an inter-agency research cooperation initiative involving the International Labour Organisation (ILO), UNICEF and the World Bank.
Yippee is a three-year research project funded under the EU Framework 7 Program on Youth and Social Inclusion. Its aim is to encourage and enable young people who were in out-of-home care at 16 to remain in post-compulsory education. This is becoming an essential step towards achieving social integration in adulthood. Five European member states, representing different welfare regimes form the project partnership. They are England (coordinator), Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Spain
The International Center on Research and Policy on Children at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (CIESPI/PUC-Rio) announces the publication of Closing the gap between rights and realities for children and youth in urban Brazil: Reflections on a Brazilian project to improve policies for street children. The publication was written by Malcolm Bush of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and Irene Rizzini, professor at PUC-Rio and director of CIESPI.
This report provides the results from a comparative international study of the models of children’s participation in family law processes related to post-separation care arrangements.
This monumental piece of work – covering nine thematic sections in thirtysix intellectually heavy weight chapters, mobilising forty-four contributors from sixteen different countries – breaks new ground in its efforts to address the challenge of kutiwa kasumba that has been Africa’s burden since the colonisation of the continent and since its assimilation of western education. Kutiwa kasumba is a Kiswahili term that can best be translated as ‘brainwashing’. It was manifest in the doctrine that pretended that Africa had no history prior to its contact with western explorers. The doctrine also pretended that Education meant simply schooling and was therefore synonymous with education western-style, western values and western content.
The new Young Lives Round 3 Survey Reports and Executive Summaries are now available online.
A Special Edition of Child & Family Social Work will review developments within the conceptualization of family and kinship in social work and begin to shape the agenda for future research, policy and practice.
NEW Deadline for first submission of papers: 1st May 2012.
Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid is a new Directorate–General responsible for designing EU development policies and delivering aid through programmes and projects across the world.
Beyond 2015 is an international campaign aiming to kick-start and accelerate the post-2015 (and post Millennium Development Goals) planning process.
Under the guidance of the Social Protection Specialist and in consultation with senior staff, the main objective of this assignment is to provide technical and research products in relation to advancing the child sensitive and integrated approach to social protection systems.
Deadline: 28 October 2011
This report synthesizes a high-level Consultation convened by IDS and the UN Millennium Achievement Fund, which brought together leaders in the UN, NGOs, research institutions and governments to discuss the problem of global inequalities and the agenda to address them.
On the basis of field experiences and research, stakeholders, social sciences researchers and jurists will discuss on the way in which children rights are currently shaping childhood and children in Southern societies. This workshop will take place on Friday 25 November at the University of Liege.
Faculty of Social Sciences of the Lomas de Zamora National University in Argentina has established UniCom: “University-Community Relations”
To celebrate the 10th year of the establishment of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield University, this conference addresses the theme of diversity in the lives of children and young people. 9th - 11th July 2012, Sheffield, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 31st January 2012.
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre has launched ResearchWatch. ResearchWatch will make available thoughtful ideas and analysis on child research and issues, in a digestible, stimulating and bite-size format.
Children, Youth and Environments has just published a special theme issue on place-based education, guest edited by Elisabeth and Robert Barratt.
Migration into Ireland is one of the biggest demographic changes to affect Irish society since the famine. This book reports on social relations between migrant and local children and offers a unique perspective on the migration experience. Based on a large scale, intensive study in inner-city Dublin, this book gives us children’s frank and unbiased perspectives on multi-cultural Ireland.
New research by Ipsos MORI for UNICEF UK has shown that children in the UK feel trapped in a "materialistic culture" and do not spend enough time with their families.
The outcomes of the recent 3rd International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) conference, which took place at the University of York, UK between July 27-29, 2011 are now available on the ISCI website.
A “Global Summit on Childhood” conference will be held in Washington, DC, March 28-31 2012, presented by the Association of Childhood Education International.
Call for papers deadline: October 15 2011
A special issue of Children, Youth and Environments shall examine the interplay between the communities in which children live, the physical parameters of these environments and the nature and incidence of violence experienced by children and young people - that is, the socio-ecological factors which moderate or aggravate violence against children.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2011