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Professor Jonathan Bradshaw delivers public lecture 'Child Poverty and Deprivation in Comparative Perspective'
Photo: Professor Bradshaw speaking at TCD
On Thursday 8th December Professor Jonathan Bradshaw, Professor of Social Policy at the University of York, delivered a public lecture entitled 'Child Poverty and Deprivation in Comparative Perspective'.
Professor Bradshaw's public lecture began by providing an overview of poverty and deprivation rates among Irish children and highlighting how these children compared with counterparts from Europe and further afield. The lecture then went on to examine some characteristics of families with children experiencing poverty, including lone-parenting, large families and ‘workless’ households. Professor Bradshaw also took time to reflect upon our current definitions and measures of child poverty and deprivation and outlined difficulties with the use of proxy household informants and the arbitrary threshold employed when calculating relative or consistent rates of poverty. The lecture concluded with some suggested directions for future research before the speaker and audience engaged in a stimulating discussion on the key points.
Jonathan Bradshaw is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. He was founder Director of the Social Policy Research Unit and served two terms as Head of Department. His research interests are in poverty, living standards, comparative social policy and child well-being. His latest book is Bradshaw, J. (2011) The Well-being of Children in the UK (Bristol: Policy Press). He was made CBE for services to child poverty in 2007, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin with degrees in Social Studies and Philosophy in 1967 and has subsequently served as an external examiner to the School of Social Work and Social Policy.
This public lecture was hosted by the Children's Research Centre, TCD, and sponsored by the Structured PhD in Child and Youth Research - a joint initiative of Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway
Photo (Left to Right): Alice Gration (CRC, TCD); Dr Lorraine Swords (CRC, TCD); Dr Michelle Share (CRC, TCD); Professor Jonathan Bradshaw (University of York, UK); Dr Padraig Mac Neela (NUIG); Dr John Canavan (NUIG)
Apply now for an Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Research Scholarship
The Research Unit of the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs have announced the launch of the National Children's Strategy Scholarship Programme 2011/2012.
Please see http://omc.gov.ie or download the Scholarship poster (PDF 172KB)
Public Lecture: The Positive Youth Development Perspective: Implications for Programmes & Policies
Prof. Richard Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University will be holding a workshop for students on the programme on March 23rd & 24th, 2011 in NUI, Galway.
A public lecture will also take place on the evening of March 23rd on 'The Positive Youth Development Perspective: Implications for Programmes & Policies'. For further details on this talk, please contact Nuala Donohue: nuala.donohue@nuigalway.ie
Public Lecture: 'Children’s participation – challenges for research and practice'
Photo (Left to Right): Dr John Canavan (NUIG); Dr Caroline Heary (NUIG); Dr Lorraine Swords (CRC, TCD); Prof. Nigel Thomas (University of Central Lancashire, Centre for Children and Young People's Participation); Dr Allyn Fives (NUIG); Prof. Sheila Greene (CRC, TCD)
On 15 June, 2010 the Children's Research Centre hosted the public lecture, 'Children’s participation – challenges for research and practice'. The speaker was Prof. Nigel Thomas, Professor of Childhood and Youth Research at the University of Central Lancashire, Co-Director of the Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation.
In this lecture Nigel Thomas reflected on twenty years of research and practice in children and young people’s participation in decision-making, taking in both individual participation in private matters and collective participation in public affairs. In the twentieth year of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is a good time to consider what has been learned from the experience of implementing Article 12, and how that learning can contribute to an understanding of the place of children in society.
Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth Skowron
Dr. Elizabeth Skowron, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, NUI, Galway & Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, Penn State University gave a seminar on May 12th 2010 in NUIG on 'Enhancing the development of emotion regulation in early childhood.'
Launch of Structured PhD in Child and Youth Research - 12th October 2009
Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway are pleased to announce the launch of the structured PhD in Child and Youth Research on October 12th.
The programme responds directly to society’s need to better understand the lives of children and young people, including those facing significant adversity, and the widely recognised need for evidence-informed policies and practices. As well as developing a whole new cohort of researchers with strong expertise in a wide range of research methods, the programme will produce cutting-edge research tailored to the needs of policy makers and service providers.
Seventeen graduate students have registered for the four-year programme which will increase research and understanding of the lives of children and young people in Ireland. According to Professor Sheila Greene of the Children’s Research Centre in TCD, the programme will greatly enhance existing capacity for child and youth research in Ireland, while for Professor Pat Dolan of NUI Galway’s Child and Family Research Centre, a major outcome will be a research community highly responsive to the needs of those working with children and young people and the needs of children and young people themselves.
Emily Logan, Ombudsman for Children; Prof Sheila Greene, TCD; Sylda Langford, Office of the Minister of Children & Youth Affairs; Prof Pat Nolan, NUI Galway; Dr Sinead Hanafin, Office of the Minster of Children & Youth Affairs.
This programme is the first of its kind in these islands and as well as bringing together the resources of the two research centres in TCD and NUI Galway it involves four Schools: the School of Psychology and the School of Social Work and Social Policy at TCD and the School of Psychology and the School of Political Science and Sociology in NUI Galway. The programme will include lectures from experts in other third level institutions, both national and international. The Programme Directors welcomed the support received from the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and during the launch Emily Logan, Ombudsman for Children, announced a studentship for this course has been awarded.
Structured PhD - 4th March 2009
Trinity College Dublin and National University of Ireland Galway are delighted to offer a new full-time Structured PhD programme in Child and Youth Research, as part of an emerging Life-Course Studies research and education agenda.
The interdisciplinary four -year programme responds to an identified need for researchers with the requisite, high-level and wide-ranging experience and skills to undertake the kind of work that is needed in an evidence-informed policy environment. By pooling the expertise of both institutions and their international affiliates, the programme offers a doctoral degree programme leading to what will be a very valuable final qualification.
Unlike traditional, thesis-only PhDs, this programme incorporates a suite of taught modules in key areas of child and youth research. These modules will provide course participants with the opportunity to widen their knowledge and skill base as well as feeding into the development of their core thesis work.
Each thesis will have a strong disciplinary base since thesis supervisors will be drawn from the staff of the four sponsoring Schools.
