On Friday 11 January 2019, the ERC Connectors Study team held the project closing event ‘Exploring childhood publics’. In this blog post Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis reflect on the crossroads that are endings and beginning, and talk about future plans in the form of the Children’s Photography Archive, an unintended outcome of the Connectors Study.

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Melissa and Christos reflect on methods in multimodal ethnography to think about how these might relate to knowledge exchange

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On Friday morning last week (24/07/2016) the UK woke up to the outcome of the referendum vote on EU membership. The blogosphere, social media and mainstream media are awash with attempts to make sense of what happened, as have my own conversations with others over the last three days. These ‘furious’ sense making activities that …

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Melissa Nolas examines the way that children’s civics and political actions are understood in the media and in the public consciousness

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Rebecca Webb explains the influence of Rancière’s work on the project, and how notions of ‘rights’ and the ‘political’ child can be interrupted and disrupted by our participants

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Activism, citizenship, social consciousness and beyond: what are circuits of social action? Dr Nolas explores the what and when of childhood social action

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At our team meeting yesterday the subject of blogging came up again – it is a permanent fixture on our agenda. What do we blog about? How often? A lot or a little? The use of blogs in social science research is a recurrent theme in the academic blogosphere. My vision for Connectors is that …

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Dr Nolas explores the 'neighbourhood' through a child's eye: play spaces, geographical mapping and the creation of childhood publics

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