Projects and Partnerships

Youth Participation and Citizenship

Children’s Rights

Human Rights and Education

Voice and Agency

Children's Rights
On-going
Children’s right to peaceful assembly and freedom of association in the digital environment
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Dr Amy Hanna (University of Strathclyde).

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's Rights
Completed
Education for children’s rights, before, during and after the pandemic in Ireland
2020 – 2021
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Dr Benjamin Mallon (Dublin City University).

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.

Children's Rights
Completed
Children Human Rights Defenders and the Digital Environment
Global Lessons to improve local practices
2019 – 2021
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin).

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.

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Voice and Agency
On-going
Children’s School Lives
2019 – 2025
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin)
Voice and Agency
Completed
Education for children’s rights, before, during and after the pandemic in Ireland
2020 – 2021
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Dr Benjamin Mallon (Dublin City University).
Youth Participation and Citizenship
On-going
Craft My Street: Capacity building of local government for youth engagement in decision-making through geospatial data and Minecraft
2023-2024
Researchers: Dr Chiara Cocco and Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin)
Youth Participation and Citizenship
On-going
A comparative analysis of children and young people’s agency and political participation in social spaces
2020-2024
Researchers: Jessica Daminelli (University College Dublin)
Youth Participation and Citizenship
Completed
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
2020 – 2021
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin), Dr Joyce Senior (University College Dublin), Dr Pilar Arnaiz Sánchez (Universidad de Murcia) and Carmen M. Caballero García (Universidad de Murcia).

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.

Human Rights and Education
Completed
Voice, Rights, Action! Children’s Knowledge about their Rights & Rights Education to Access Justice
2021 – 2022
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Jessica Daminelli (University College Dublin).
Human Rights and Education
Completed
Situational Assessment of Children’s Rights Education
2019 – 2020
Researchers: Dr Aida Urrea Monclús (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Dr Benjamin Mallon (Dublin City University).
On-going
Craft My Street: Capacity building of local government for youth engagement in decision-making through geospatial data and Minecraft
2023-2024
Researchers: Dr Chiara Cocco and Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin)
On-going
A comparative analysis of children and young people’s agency and political participation in social spaces
2020-2024
Researchers: Jessica Daminelli (University College Dublin)
Completed
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
2020 – 2021
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin), Dr Joyce Senior (University College Dublin), Dr Pilar Arnaiz Sánchez (Universidad de Murcia) and Carmen M. Caballero García (Universidad de Murcia).

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.

On-going
Children’s right to peaceful assembly and freedom of association in the digital environment
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Dr Amy Hanna (University of Strathclyde).

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.

Completed
Education for children’s rights, before, during and after the pandemic in Ireland
2020 – 2021
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Dr Benjamin Mallon (Dublin City University).

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.

Completed
Children Human Rights Defenders and the Digital Environment
Global Lessons to improve local practices
2019 – 2021
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin).

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.

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Completed
Voice, Rights, Action! Children’s Knowledge about their Rights & Rights Education to Access Justice
2021 – 2022
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Jessica Daminelli (University College Dublin).
Completed
Situational Assessment of Children’s Rights Education
2019 – 2020
Researchers: Dr Aida Urrea Monclús (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Dr Benjamin Mallon (Dublin City University).
On-going
Children’s School Lives
2019 – 2025
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin)
Completed
Education for children’s rights, before, during and after the pandemic in Ireland
2020 – 2021
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Dr Benjamin Mallon (Dublin City University).