Events/Education
TIME: 12.30 - 14.00
DATE: Thursday 17th October 2013
VENUE: Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon Building
Speaker: Yvonne M. Vissing Director, Center for Childhood and Youth Studies
Professor, in the Department of Sociology, at Salem State MA will be visiting the Centre for Children’s Rights in October.
TIME: 12.30 - 14.00
DATE: Thursday 24th October 2013
VENUE: Canada Room & Council Chamber, Lanyon Building
Speaker: Mari Vuorisalo, a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Early childhood education at the Department of Education in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, will be joining the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast in October. Her research concerns children’s everyday-life and participation in a preschool setting. In her PhD study (2013) she has utilised Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice, especially concepts of field and capital.
TIME: 17.00
DATE: Wednesday 20th November 2013
VENUE: Great Hall, Queen's Univeristy Belfast
Speaker: Prof. Laura Lundy on Universal Children’s Day will give her Inaugural Lecture.
TIME:09.15 -10.30
DATE: Friday 8th November
VENUE: St. Ita's School, Belfast
The ‘Big Breakfast’ event will be held to disseminate the findings from Kids Life and Times Survey. The 2013 survey included two modules of questions – Children’s Rights and Nutrition – that were developed by a Children’s Research Advisory Group (CRAG) of Primary 6 children in conjunction with staff from the Centre for Children’s Rights (CCR) in the School of Education at Queen’s University Belfast.
Findings from these two modules will be presented by the CRAG at St. Ita’s School in Belfast, and will incorporate a ‘Big Breakfast’ featuring some of the healthy breakfast options suggested by respondents to KLT in the Nutrition module.
TIME: 12.30 - 14.00
DATE: Thursday 21st November 2013
VENUE: Cathcart Room 69/71 University Street, 0G/007
Speaker: Prof. Michael Freeman, renowned Children’s Rights Scholar will be visiting the Centre for Children’s Rights in November.