In this post Melissa Nolas, co-director of Childhood Publics research programme, reflects on childhood, animals, and nature, and what children's photographs and experiences from the ERC Connectors Study tell us about these themes, which might provide one way of understanding children's action on climate change. 

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Dr Martin Bittner reflects on his own research and experiences of working across cultures, exploring a theory and methodology of translation

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A special issue that Melissa, Vinnarasan and me have edited for Contemporary Social Science,’Political activism across the life course‘ has just been published! The publishing of the issue rounds up a journey we set off on about a year ago, in our “Activism on the edge of age” workshop – which we organised last June …

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On April 26 this year I had the opportunity to participate and contribute to a workshop on improving responses to child sexual exploitation (CSE) that was organised by the University of Bedfordshire’s International Centre Researching Child Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Trafficking. I don’t know anything about CSE, although a couple of the publicised cases in …

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Children's map-making can move beyond representations to critically project desires and critique relationships to life beyond the domestic and private

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I started writing this post en route back from Manchester and the British Sociological Association 2017 Annual Conference where the Connectors Study research team attended to present our work. We are in the process of re-writing an article on childhood publics and political talk in childhood for a Special Issue we are co-editing in Contemporary …

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CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Contemporary Social Science Political activism across the life-course. Papers are invited that explore how citizens participate in society. What leads them to participate, and what are the consequences of their participation? These are important policy and practice relevant questions about political activism, defined as responding to matters of common …

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Exploring the relationship between childhood and public life: Collaborative writing across disciplines, countries, and technologies

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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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Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis question some of the epistemological issues of social scientists reacting immediately to public events

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