Children’s Rights
On-going projects
Project: Children’s right to peaceful assembly and freedom of association in the digital environment.
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin), Dr Joyce Senior (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 projects
Project: 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.
Project: Children Human Rights Defenders and the Digital Environment: Global Lessons to improve local practices (2019 – 2021). Funded by the Irish Research Council, Ireland.
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.
Voice and Agency
On-going projects
Project: Children’s School Lives (2019 – 2025). Funded by National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Ireland.
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin)
Completed projects
Project: 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).
Children’s Participation and Citizenship
On-going projects
Project: Craft My Street: Capacity building of local government for youth engagement in decision-making through geospatial data and Minecraft (2023-2024) Funded by Science Foundation Ireland Our Tech National Challenge Fund, Ireland.
Researchers: Dr Chiara Cocco and Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin)
Project: A comparative analysis of children and young people’s agency and political participation in social spaces (2020-2024) Funded by University College Dublin, Ireland.
Researchers: Jessica Daminelli (University College Dublin)
Completed projects
Project: 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 Education
Completed projects
Project: Voice, Rights, Action! Children’s Knowledge about their Rights & Rights Education to Access Justice (2021 – 2022). Funded by Children’s Rights Alliance, Ireland.
Researchers: Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz (University College Dublin) and Jessica Daminelli (University College Dublin).
Project: 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).
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