About us
Vision and members of our Childhood and Youth Studies research group.
Vision
To make a transformative contribution to realising children and young people’s human rights by undertaking and promoting inter-disciplinary research, teaching, policy and practice.
As a group we …
- Work collaboratively and encourage dialogue, within and across disciplines and sectors, in research-related activities involving children and young people.
- Work with a social justice agenda to recognise children and young people’s rights, across local and international contexts, to value diversity and to challenge inequality.
- Intentionally amplify and extend existing opportunities and synergies across research, policy and practice contexts to progress children and young people’s meaningful participation and human rights.
Associated networks, groups and centres
Childhood and Youth Studies Research Group is a constellation of research specialities, including the associated networks, groups and centres:
Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES)
Centre for Research in Education Inclusion & Diversity (CREID)
Early Years Research, Policy and Practice Group
Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland
People at CYSRG
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Professor of Childhood Policy | Professor Kay Tisdall |
| PhD student | Sara Abahussaint |
| Tutor BA in Childhood Practice and Manager, Riverside Cottage Nursery, Bathgate | Luke Addison |
| PhD Student | Thalia Thereza Assan |
| Director of Undergraduate Studies / Lecturer in Sport Policy and Management, ISPEHS | Dr Davies Banda |
| PhD Student | Bekkah Bernheim |
| Innovation and Uptake Director, End Violence Lab | Jake Broadhurst |
| PhD Student | Fatma Busra Aksoy Kumru |
| PhD Student | Patrick Brobbey |
| Senior Lecturer in Science Education | Dr Laura Colucci-Gray |
| Honorary Fellow | Dr Patricio Cuevas-Parra |
| PhD Student | Beth Davies |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate, STEP: Connecting mobile cultures and education | Dr Pauline Duncan |
| Teaching Fellow in Comparative Education and International Development | Dr Carole Faucher |
| Co-Depute Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange / Senior Lecturer in Child Protection | Dr Deborah Fry |
| Senior Lecturer in Youth Studies and Head of Institute for Education, Community and Society (IECS) | Dr Ian Fyfe |
| Director of Professional Learning / Teaching Fellow | Dr Juliet Hancock |
| PhD Student | Chad Lance Hemady |
| PhD Graduate (Clinical Psychology) | Dr Somia Imran |
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PhD Student |
Alexandra Jundler |
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PhD Student |
Andrea Khalfaoui |
| Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Co-director of Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland | Dr Kristina Konstantoni |
| PhD Student | Brendan Kwiatkowski |
| Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Co-director of the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland | Dr Marlies Kustatscher |
| PhD Student | Minkyung Kwon |
| PhD Student | Yukti Lamba |
| PhD Student | Liz Latto |
| PhD Student | Jane Malcolm |
| Chancellor's Fellow | Jennifer Lavoie |
| Deputy Director of CREID, REF 2021 Co-ordinator | Professor Gillean McCluskey |
| Senior Research Fellow | Dr Christina McMellon |
| Senior Teaching Fellow | Dr Lynn McNair OBE |
| Teaching Fellow in Childhood Studies | Dr Maggie Morrison |
| PhD Student | Lakshmi Neelakantan |
| PhD Student | Takuya Numajiri |
| PhD Student | Karina Padilla |
| Chair in Education and Technology | Professor Lydia Plowman |
| Senior Research Fellow in Childhood and Youth Studies | Dr Mary Ann Powell |
| Chair of Childhood Visual Impairment, Head of the Scottish Sensory Centre | Professor John Ravenscroft |
| PhD Student | Natalia Salamanca-Sarmiento |
| PhD Student | Sabina Savadova |
| PhD Student | Gizem Silistire |
| Research Fellow | Kay Steven |
| Teaching Fellow in Childhood Practice and Studies | Dr Laura Wright |