Amy Hanna is lecturer in education at the University of Strathclyde. Amy is a secondary school teacher of English and taught in schools in both England and, most recently, Australia, where she taught young people with disabilities. Throughout her teaching practice, Amy noted that children’s rights and voices are regularly not asked for, and therefore remain silent, but that this is often because teachers are unaware of how to implement these rights in education. Amy completed her PhD research on how examining uses and experiences of silence by students and teachers can create more inclusive understanding and implementation of article 12 right to be heard under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.