The project explores children’s views and concerns about climate change and the social aspects of the green transitions. The aim of the project is to better understand how key areas of the green transition such as transportation, pollution, green spaces and food are understood and experienced by children in the present and how they imagine will impact their futures.
Projects and Partnerships
Children’s School Lives
A comparative analysis of children and young people’s agency and political participation in social spaces
Craft My Street: Capacity building of local government for youth engagement in decision-making through geospatial data and Minecraft
Children’s right to peaceful assembly and freedom of association in the digital environment
This project explores the experiences of young climate activists and the challenges they faced regarding their right to peaceful assembly and freedom of association during the shift towards online protests as a result the COVID19 pandemic. It explores the pedagogical challenges and opportunities of learning through protests.
Children Human Rights Defenders and the Digital Environment
Global Lessons to improve local practices
This project explores the specific challenges of children and young people defending human rights in the digital environment to provide evidence and child-led recommendations for policymaking.
The right to active participation in the community: The Lived Experiences of Art 23 of the UNCRC for Children and Adolescents with Special Educational Needs in Ireland
This project examines the lived experience of social participation in the community by children and adolescents with special educational needs to identify the barriers to fully exercising their participatory rights.
Education for children’s rights, before, during and after the pandemic in Ireland
This project assesses the knowledge of children’s rights among children and adolescents in Ireland and uses participatory methods to determine the best methodologies and practices to teach and learn about and for their rights.