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This article uses data collected just before the pandemic to ask whether or not children and young people should have a right to a private life, and whether sending information home from school without a student’s consent is circumventing their right to that privacy. We identify particularly ethical issues, including whether using information to gain...
Please click here to read Professor Ruth Swanwick's report on her recent return to Ghana for the Early Education for Young Deaf Children and their Caregivers project.
Dr Gill Main and PhD student Pablo Cheyre recently attended the International Society for Child Indicators conference in Gramado, Brazil, where they both presented their research in a panel session organised by Gill, on the importance of including children’s perspectives. Pablo spoke about his PhD research, which focuses on developing an understanding of child well-being,...
Dr Gill Main was invited to speak last week at the Pakistani National Dialogue on ‘Putting Children First: Identifying Issues and Defining Solutions to Address Children’s, Especially Girls’, Deprivation in Pakistan’. The event brought together national policy makers, practitioners and academics alongside international experts. Gill was asked to speak on the importance of including child-specific...
Women and Girls with ASD and ADHD Under-Identified, Under-Diagnosed and Under-Supported Judith Hebron and Katie Gathercole recently gave an invited talk to the West Yorkshire Confederation of Women’s Institutes on women and girls with autism and ADHD. This was to inform delegates on whether to support a resolution being proposed called: "Women and Girls with...
The impact workshop was organised by a five-member research team who are undertaking a research project entitled 'The Early Education for Young Deaf Children and their Caregivers in Ghana'. The research project is a collaboration between the University of Leeds and the Department of Special Education (SPED) under the Faculty of Educational Studies of the...
Dear colleagues and postgraduate researchers, As we are approaching the summer break, and given that this has been a particularly challenging year for all of us, I would like to thank you all for your hard work and commitment to our research activities. I am ever so grateful for all your great engagement, creative energy...
The ICKLE (Impact of COVID-19 on Key Learning and Education) project tracks the impact of the disruption to schooling during the Covid-19 lockdown. It focuses on children’s progress in key foundation skills from reception to year 1, and analyses how factors related to school, home, and children themselves may affect this development. Three interim summary...
The conference, which will take place online from 29 to 30 July 2021, “is a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, academicians and social and youth activists to present and discuss the latest research findings, concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Children and Youth”. The conference theme...
Child poverty is devastating for children’s lives and societies – but often there is a disconnect between academic research, policy and practice; and children’s own experiences and ideas are often left out of decision making. In partnership with The Children’s Society, The Child Poverty Action Group and Leeds City Council, Dr Gill Main’s research centres the expertise...