Children & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Children & Society is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Cultivating child and youth decision‐making: The principles and practices of the ReSPECT approach to professional development31
A child's day: A comprehensive analysis of change in children's time use in the UKKillianMullanBristol University Press, Sociology of Children and Families series. ISBN: 978‐1529201703, 212 pp27
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?22
‘Childhood in the shadow of prison bars’: How school counselors cope while counseling children of incarcerated parents21
Fun, flirtation and fear: Selfies in teenage girls digital exchange cultures20
‘I will grab a rifle and I will kill that bug!’: The role of children's humour in navigating painful treatments in a paediatric hospital in Argentina17
Community coherence, collective efficacy and civic engagement in student and youth councils: The mediating effect of community resilience16
Establishing a sense of community: Moral socialization in girls‐only football for inclusion16
Russian fathers' involvement in childcare, children's education and housework during the COVID‐19 lockdown15
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Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse13
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A magna carta for children? Rethinking children's rights11
Educating tomorrow: Learning for the post‐pandemic world By ChrisBrownRuthLuzmoreBingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Ltd, 2021. ISBN 978‐1‐80043‐663‐3; 200 pages; £16.99 (pb)11
Black mothers and attachment parenting: A black feminist analysis of intensive mothering in Britain and CanadaBy PatriciaHamilton. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781529207934, 213 pp.,10
Moving beyond narrative archetypes among children with cancer10
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness9
Education and the social mobility conundrum: An examination of the ‘psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’ in the context of disadvantaged students in the UK secondary education9
COVID taught me…’: Examining child‐radio productions in the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research9
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence9
Imagined foodways and rejected biopedagogies: Rural children's perspectives of rural foodways9
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions9
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Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child8
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Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID‐19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa8
Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism8
Facilitation of adolescents' agency and hybrid integration8
Deconstructing dolls: Girlhoods and the meanings of play Edited by MiriamForman‐Brunell: Berghahn Books; 2021, ISBN 978‐1‐80 073‐103‐5 (pb), 182pp., £23.95 (pb)8
Narratives of child sexual abuse—Conceptualizing relational complexities7
Rethinking youth citizenship after the age of entitlementLucasWalshRosalynBlackLondon, Bloomsbury, 2018. HB 978‐1‐4742‐4803‐7 PB:978‐1‐3501‐3104‐0 HB: AUD180 PB: AUD 59.997
Mothering, education and culture: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish middle‐class mothers in Israeli Society By DeborahGoldenLaurenErdreichSvetaRobermanLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐537
The relationship between maternal sensitivity and play during early childhood with the development of cognitive skills and socio‐emotional competencies: Longitudinal evidence from Peru7
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Operationalising children's participation: Competing understandings of the policy to practice ‘gap’7
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors7
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China7
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How many men work in the English early years sector? Why is the low figure so ‘stubbornly resistant to change’?6
Children's relational experiences with the financial crisis in Greece6
The need to belong: Girls' trajectory perspectives on friendship forming in the school setting6
The association between disability, school achievement expectations, self‐efficacy and psychosomatic problems among Swedish adolescents attending compulsory regular school6
Acceptance, obedience and resistance: Children's perceptions of street trading in Nigeria6
Surviving on the periphery of society: Experiences of street children in Accra, Ghana6
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana6
Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children. By Silvia RodriguezVega (ed.) NYU Press, 2023 Paperback 9 781 479 810 451, 240 pp, $30.006
The space before, the space beyond: Activism, relationships and social change in the neo‐liberal academy6
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment6
The future of children's care By ChristianJerr, RobinSen (Eds.), Bristol University Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐6828‐7 (paperback)6
Research handbook on child soldiersByMark A.DrumblJastine C.Barrett (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019. ISBN 9781789903324, 542 pp., £45 (pb)6
Does gender influence children's and young people's caring? A qualitative, systematic review and meta‐ethnography6
Children and Society Policy Review—A review of government consultation processes when engaging with children and young people about the statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education in school6
Rethinking child and youth activism in challenging times6
Childhood and youth in India: Engagements with modernity By AnandiniDar, DivyaKannan (Eds.), Cham, Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. pp. 295, $159.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐31 5
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children5
Parental mediation in the age of mobile technology5
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’5
‘I actually know that things will get better’: The many pathways to resilience of LGBTQIA+ youth in out‐of‐home care5
Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences5
Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research5
Children's dark pictures—Societal critique in children's and young people's visual and verbal expressions about the UNCRC5
Unpacking the discourses of stunting in Indonesian early childhood education and parenting5
The importance of emotions in the lives of children and young people in foster care in England, France and Germany5
Children's agency within digital play and learning: Exploring the impact of shared play experiences on parent–child negotiations5
Dilemma of family education for hearing‐impaired children in China: Responsibility or evasion?5
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings5
Crafting futures with hope: Young climate activists’ imaginaries in an age of crisis and uncertainty4
The Orange Ribbon and the Pitiful Child: Investigating Child Abuse, Family Normativity and the Welfare State in Japan4
School bullying and the ongoing social dynamics: A thematic analysis of young peoples' perspectives on a specific bullying case4
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?4
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China4
Young children's lives in East London through the pandemic: Relationships, activities and social worlds4
‘We can play tag with a stick’. Children's knowledge, experiences, feelings and creative thinking during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Children's perspectives of learning through play in the majority world: Findings from Bangladesh, Colombia and Uganda4
Young People's Experiences of Out‐of‐Home Care as Conveyed by Video Vlogs4
School bullying victimization and child subjective well‐being in east Asian countries and territories: Role of children's participation in decision‐making in schools and community4
Perceptions of children's participation as patients in health interactions4
Behavioural Activation and Inhibition Systems of Fathers, Child Abuse and Childhood Psychopathology: The Mediating Role of Demographics4
‘Rutting stags’ and ‘sly foxes’: Gender positioning boys and girls through social, emotional and behavioural work on the school playground4
Optimal development for the children of prisoners? How children with a parent in prison are supported and why it matters4
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Adult narratives of childhood language brokering: Learning what it means to be bilingual4
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile3
Using a ‘Family Language Policy’ lens to explore the dynamic and relational nature of child agency3
‘Can You Please Sit Still?!’: Exploring the Dynamics of Children's Sedentary Behaviours at Home3
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood3
Vulnerable children aiding visually challenged beggars in Nigeria: Need for social work intervention3
Designing and validation of a workplace abuse questionnaire among child labour3
How to do things with food: The rules and roles of mealtime ‘things’ in everyday family dinners3
Towards more active parenting: Trends in parental mediation of children’s internet use in European countries3
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Preserving national values: Reproduction of national identity in a school ofQenie3
Fitspiration—Inspiration or threat for adolescent girls? A qualitative investigation on fitness‐related social media content and physical education3
Identity, culture and belonging: Educating young children for a changing world. TonyEaudeNew York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 240 pp. $120.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 97813500978033
Children's Covid‐19 writing and drawings and the existential imperative to educate for uncertainty3
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights3
Carer involvement with children and child‐friendly book ownership in Bangladesh3
Alcohol and tobacco use in Portuguese adolescents: The relationship with social factors, future expectations, physical and psychological symptoms3
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Research handbook on international child abduction: The 1980 convention By MarilynFreeman and NicolaTaylor (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2023. pp. 461. £210 (hbk). ISBN: 97818003725043
Breaking the silence on special needs children in foster care: The diversity of children in foster care, carers and processes3
‘It hurts to give up on a child who has already been given up’: School counsellors' perspectives on their support for children in foster care3
Depression in children: Impact of the father companionship and peer relationship3
Conducting large‐scale mixed‐method research on harm and abuse prevention with children under 12: Learning from a UK feasibility study3
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Professional love and diversity in foster care3
Child language brokering as a family care practice: Reframing the ‘parentified child’ debate3
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece3
The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation3
The benefits of life stories to trauma research: Child disaster studies through ecological‐developmental lenses3
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Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–20203
Agency, aspirations and citizenship: Non‐formal education from the perspective of children in street situations in Pakistan3
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual3
A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation3
‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis3
An ethnographic fieldwork: The role of school shows in the reproduction of gender inequalities in Turkey3
Containing childhood By DanielleRussell (Ed.), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2022. pp. 240, $99 (hb). ISBN: 97814968411792
Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study2
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia2
Process of co‐production of mental health service plans for refugee children in Turkey2
Space, people, activity and time: A theoretical model for understanding children's outdoor play with specific reference to the historical protected central areas of Beijing, China2
Socially active volunteering students: The case of student councils2
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto2
‘Stranger danger’, ‘abduction risks’ and ‘fear’: Media coverage of children's independent mobility and parental attitudes2
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives2
Sharing care: Equal and primary carer fathers and early years parentingRachelBrooksPaulHodkinsonBristol: Bristol University Press, 2020, ISBN 978–1–5292–0596–1, 230 pp., £60 (hb)2
Teenage Dreams: Girlhood sexualities in the U.S. culture warsCharlie Jeffries, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022, ISBN 9781978806795, 226 pp., $29.95 (paperback)2
The Sociology of Children's Rights. By BrianGran. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐509‐52784‐7, 259 pp. $64.95 (hb)2
Being me in times of change: Young children's reflections on their lives during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Empowerment evaluation: Key methodology aspects from participatory research and intervention with Roma girls2
The social organization of South Asian immigrant women's mothering work By FerzanaChaze, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. pp. 246, hardcover. ISBN: 978‐15275028402
Becoming a ‘good parent’: Social class and talk labour among South Korean parents2
Hidden curriculum: Voices of Chinese rural migrant children2
Youth migration and the politics of wellbeing: Stories of life in transitionBy ElaineChaseJenniferAllsopp (Eds.) Bristol University Press, 2021, ISBN 978‐1‐5292‐0902‐0, 268 pp, hardcover2
Humour, empathic concern and perspective‐taking in children. Cartooning about social inequality2
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The child in world cinemaBy DebbieOlson (Ed). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2018. ISBN: 9781498563802; 496 pp., £113.00 (hb)2
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil2
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‘You cut off a part of your body to feed your family’ Parental perspectives on parent–child separation in the context of child domestic work: A qualitative study from Karnataka, India2
Incentives matter: An experiment in participant engagement from a family‐centred adolescent HIV prevention programme in South Africa2
Children’s voices from the past: New historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. By Kristine MoruziNell  Musgrove and Carla  Pascoe Leahy (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 ISBN 978‐3‐030‐11895‐2, XI2
Caregivers' perspectives of support needs for adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder2
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach2
Between self and community: Children's personhood in a Globalized South Korea, By JunehuiAhn (Ed.), Newark, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 2023. pp. 222. £134.00 (hb). ISBN: 97801988526812
Mapping Sustainable Development Goals for Children in India: Progress and Present ChallengesBy SwatiDutta and Khanindra Ch.Das, Singapore: Springer, 2024. 210 pp. £96.29 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐981‐99‐89012
Child marriage: Representation of the marriage of underage girls problem in the Turkish print media2
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system2
Role conflicts of preschool teachers: From children's perspectives in a changing cultural setting in Taiwan2
‘The Pandemic Affected My Life in a Negative Way’: The Experiences of Estonian Children in Child Protective Services During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic2
Class matters—Children's perceptions of sports coaching2
Growing up with disabled parents who use personal assistance (PA support): children's views and experiences2
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‘Crossed the line’: Sexuality discourses of motherhood under 15 years in Uganda2
The association between family routines and parents' different working hour schedules2
Adolescent trajectories in situations of adversity: A mixed‐method approach to understanding educational and leadership outcomes1
After Childhood: Re‐thinking environment, materiality and media in children's lives By PeterKraftl. London & New York: Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978‐1‐138‐08824‐5 (hbk), 237 pp.; 120£(hbk)/33£ (eb)1
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)1
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School journey as a third place By ZoeMoody, AyukoBerchtold‐Sedooka, SaraCamponovo, Philip D.Jaffé and FrédéricDarbellay (Eds.), London: Anthem Press. 2023. pp. 263. £80. ISBN 97818399863141
School integration of immigrant children in Belgium1
Post‐socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with ‘child as method’1
The post‐war generation remembers: A mixed‐method study exploring children’s attitudes towards World War II commemoration1
Being family via WeChat: Children's interpretation of long‐distance family relationships1
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study1
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Exploring sibling influences on school‐aged child injuries1
Evaluation of route choice for walking commutes to school and street space optimization in old urban areas of China based on a child‐friendly orientation: The case of the Wuyi Park area in Zhengzhou1
Young people's participation: Revisiting youth and inequalities in Europe Edited by MariaBruselius‐JensenIlariaPittiE Kay M.Tisdall, Great Britain Policy Press, an imprint of the University of Bristol1
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes1
A content analysis of South Korean newspaper coverage of adolescent cyberbullying1
Perspectives of socioeconomically disadvantaged parents on their children's coping during COVID‐19: Implications for practice1
Agile Agency: Applying its Three Principles to Calibrate Adult Lenses While Supporting Young Children's Spontaneous Agency1
The role of family and school during lockdown: Notable differences regarding children's satisfaction with their support1
‘It is intimidating going into your first job’: Young teens and workplace safety1
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Adventurous play in schools: The parent perspective1
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts1
Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique1
Understanding Child Sexual Exploitation in Australia: An Empirical Contribution to the Evidence Base1
Learning from Central American migrant children in‐transit within Mexico: A funds of knowledge approach1
Life in a Cambodian orphanage: A childhood journey for new opportunities By KathieCarpenter, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2021. pp. 224. $33.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐9788‐0484‐51
Epistemic justice and injustice among youth with mental health concerns1
Between surveillance and self‐surveillance: What institutionalised girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality1
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From being ignored to engaging in dialogue: Young boys' narratives of children's participation in child–parent conflicts1
Social and Cultural Influences on Parental Mediation of Digital Media Use in Azerbaijan1
Health experience outcomes of a health promotion project for middle school pupils in Sweden1
Errors and mistakes in child protection: International discourses, approaches and strategies By KayBiesel, JudithMasson, NigelParton and TarjaPösö (eds.). Bristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐1
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Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies1
Constructing child participation in early years classrooms: An exploration from Wales1
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability1
Remembrance and ritual in English schools1
Food insecurity, poor dietary intake and a lack of free meal uptake amongst 16–17‐year‐old college students in the northeast of England, UK1
“Make them mature properly”: Protective restriction of children from the adult world in China's suburban schools1
Adultification, neglect and sexual abuse at home: Selected narratives of orphaned girls in KwaMashu, South Africa1
School bullying and health‐related quality of life in Chinese school‐aged children and adolescents1
Agency and voice: Using critical theory to reposition children from refugee backgrounds when considering their transition to school in Australia1
“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana1
Food and nutrition education in Australian primary schools: Parents' perspectives on why, when and how1
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The perceptions of early childhood children and parents towards children's participation rights: ‘Yes, I and I Disagree!’1
Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children1
Picture books for young children of incarcerated parents: Through the lens of bibliotherapy1
The impact ofCOVID‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece1
I agreed to go because........examining the Agency of Children within a phenomenon conceptualised as trafficking in Ghana1
I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference1
Children's grief maps—Capturing children's grief and sorrow in family and close relationships1
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐191
Recommendations for child welfare care reform in the global south: Perspectives of 542 adults who were separated from parental care during childhood in 12 nations1
‘Children say playing and adults say working’: Children negotiating regulations on digital media in a Swedish preschool1
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life1
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations1
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“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan1
The inability of Turkey and Istanbul in institutionalisation of children's participation in urban planning: A policy analysis study1
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Doing foster family with young refugees: Negotiations of belonging and being at home1
Race, class, parenting and children's leisure: Children's leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle‐class British Indian families By Utsa Mukherjee, Br1
Minority language education: Reconciling the tensions of language revitalisation and the benefits of bilingualism1
Attitudes of Israeli Early Childhood Educators Who Work in Kibbutz, Rural Villages and Cities Towards Their Community and Its Significance for Children1
Understanding the support dynamics for LGBTI+ youth in Spain during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic1
The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia1
Gamification and family leisure to alleviate the psychological impact of confinement due to COVID‐191
Re‐imaging everyday routines and educational aspirations under COVID‐19 lockdown: Narratives of urban middle‐class children in Punjab, India1
Teens and Brexit in Northern Ireland: Merging rights with responsibilities1
Gina Crivello: A tribute1
Beyond educational workshops: How child‐focused NGOs can draw African rural parents out for sustainable intervention in childhoods1
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Agency in everyday life: An ethnography of the moral experiences of children and youth0
Hiding and seeking: Children's lived experiences during COVID‐190
Locking down adolescents: Victims, irresponsible subjects, or just social actors0
Children's lives and rights under lockdown: A Northern Irish perspective by autistic young people0
Children's perspectives on their play experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A video‐based interview study0
Exploring Physical Activity Health Promotion in Danish Kindergartens: A Child Perspective0
The COVID‐School and Social Responsibility: Creative Expressions of Children's Rights and Agency in Iceland During the Pandemic0
‘Doing family’ in adversity: Findings from a qualitative study exploring family practices in alternative care settings in Thailand0
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown0
Children, language and access to schools in the global South: The case of migrants in Ghana0
Picturing safety and danger: Children's perspectives in rural Sierra Leone0
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Life‐history research with children: Extending and enriching the approach0
Telepresence robotic technology support for social connectedness during treatment of children with cancer0
Shrinking social spaces: The role of nurseries as social infrastructure and brokers of support in times of crisis0
In need of what? Section 17 Provision under the Children Act 19890
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