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Prof Laura Lundy

Professor of Education
LL.B, LL.M, PhD, Barrister at Law

Room 104
69/71 University Street
School of Education
Queen's University Belfast

Tel: 028 9097 5942
Fax: 028 9097 5066
Email: l.lundy@qub.ac.uk

 

Leadership Roles:
Director, Queen’s University Research Forum for the Child
Director, School of Education, Research Cluster on Children’s Rights and Participation in Education
Member, Management  Committee of the Improving Children’s Lives Initiative

Teaching:
Children’s rights, Education and the Law (M level Module)
The International Human Right to Education (M Level Module)
Education Law (EdD Module)
Human Rights and Education (EdD Module)
Children’s Rights: Research and Practice (D.Child)
Research/Scholarship

Research/Scholarship Interests
Children’s rights, education law, children’s participation in research.

Recent research projects:

  • Barriers to Effective Delivery for Children (2011) NICCY, (Byrne, B and Lundy, L. (£9 000)
  • Ready to Learn: Children’s Perspectives (2010), Barnardo’s,  (Lundy, L (PI),  McEvoy, L. And Byrne, B. (£27, 000)
  • Attitudes of Parents and Pupils to Science Assessment (APPSA) (2009), The Wellcome Trust,  (Murphy C (PI), Kerr, K, Lundy, L and McEvoy, L (£49, 000)
  • Improving Children’s Lives (Atlantic Philanthropies and Queen’s University) with P. Connolly  (PI) (et al)  (2009-2012)(£2.2 million)  ( www.improvingchildrenslives.org )
  • Ready to Learn: the Needs of Primary School Children in Disadvantaged Areas, Barnardo’s Northern Ireland (2007/2008) (with Allen, S. and Lundy, L. [Co-Principal Investigators], Maguire, L. and McEvoy, L.). (£89 000).
  • “E-consultation with children: a pilot study’ (2006/7) DE/CCEA,  Lundy, L and McEvoy, L.. (£16 000).
  • Consulting Pupils on the Assessment of their Learning (CPAL).   www.cpal.qub.ac.uk.   (2005-2007) ESRC/TLRP, (Leitch; R(PI) , Lundy; L Gardner; J, Clough; P,  Galanouli, D  (with Odena, O and Mitchell, S J)) (£89, 000).
  • Mainstreaming Section 75 in Schools Equality Commission (2005/6) (with Clough, P. Connolly, P, Elwood, J, Gallagher, T.) ( £25, 000)
  • Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland,  Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, ((2004-2005).  (with Kilkelly, U., Kilpatrick, R., Lundy, L (PI), Scraton, P.)  (£119, 000).


Publications:
I am the author of the key legal text on education law in Northern Ireland: Education: Law Policy and Practice in Northern Ireland, (SLS, Belfast, 2000).  

Other recent publications include:

  • Lundy, L. and McEvoy, L., (2012, in press), Childhood, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Research: What Constitutes a ‘Rights-Based’ Approach?  In:  M. Freeman, (Ed) Law and Childhood,  (Oxford, Oxford University  Press).
  • Lundy, L. (2013 in press) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Child Well-being.  Chapter in Ben-Arieh, A., Casas, F.,  Frones, I., Korbin, J. (Eds) International Handbook on Child Well-Being,  Springer.
  • Lundy. L. (under review) Children's rights and education policy in Europe: bridging the abyss from 'should' to 'is'.  under review with Oxford Review of Education.
  • Lundy, L. and McEvoy, L. (2011) Children’s rights and research processes: assisting children to (in)formed views  Childhood  [published on-line in advance of print]
  • Lundy, L. McEvoy, l. Byrne, B. (2011) Rights-based research in the early years” Early Education and Development 714-736.
  • Byrne, B and Lundy, L (2011), ‘International Human Rights  Law and the Rights of Students with Disabilities’  chapter in Russo, C. (ed)  The Rights of Students with Disabilities ((Rowman and Littlefield)  1-20.
  • Elwood J and Lundy, L (2010) Revisioning assessment from a children’s rights perspective: policy process, practice, Research Papers in Education pp.335-353.
  • Davey, C., and Lundy, L (2011) “Towards greater recognition of the right to play: reflections on Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child”, Children and Society  3-14.
  • Lundy, L., and McEvoy, L. (2009) 1 “Developing outcomes for education services: a children’s rights-based approach”, Effective Education  43-60.
  • Lundy, L., (2009) ‘Children, Religion and Rights in Northern Ireland, chapter in Fineman, M. and Worthington, K. (eds): Competing Paradigms of Rights and Responsibilities: Children in the Discourse of Religion and International Human Rights, (Aldershot: Ashgate).
  • Lundy, L., (2007) 33(6) ‘Voice is not enough’: Conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’, British Education Research Journal,  927-942.
  • Kilkelly, U. and Lundy, L (2007) ‘Children’s Rights in Action: using the Convention on the Rights of the Child as an auditing tool’, chapter in The UN Children’s Right Conventions: Theory Meets Practice   (Intersentia, Antwerpen-Oxford). Pp.57-79.
  • McEvoy  L. and Lundy, L.  (2007) E-consultation with pupils: a rights-based approach to the integration of citizenship education and ICT', Technology, Pedagogy and Education , 16:3, 305 – 319
  • McEvoy, L and Lundy, L., (2007) ‘Securing a Human Rights Culture through the Protection, Promotion and Fulfilment of Children’s Rights in School’ chapter in Anthony, G., McEvoy K., and Morison J., (eds), Judges, Transition and Human Rights, (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 495- 514.
  • Leitch, R, Mitchell, S, Gardner, J, Odena, O, Lundy, L, Galanouli, D & Clough, P. (2007) Consulting pupils in ‘Assessment for Learning’ classrooms: The twists and turns of working with students as co-researchers. Educational Action Research . Vol. 15, No 3. September, 2007. pp459-488
  • Kilkelly, U., and Lundy, L., (2006) 18(3) ‘The Convention on the Rights of the Child: its use as an auditing tool’, Child and Family Law Quarterly, 331-350.
  • Lundy, L., Kilpatrick, R. (2006) 21(2) ‘The rights of children with special educational needs’, Support for Learning  57-64.
  • Lundy, L., (2006) ‘The Legal Rights of Students in Northern Ireland’, chapter in Russo C., Stewart, D., DeGroof, J.,(ed) The Legal Rights of Students: International Perspectives on Demystifying the Legal Issues, (Rowman and Littlefield Education, 2006). 161-177
  • Lundy, L., (2006) ‘Mainstreaming Children’s Rights in, to and through Education in a Society Emerging from Conflict’ (2006) 24, International Journal of Children’s Rights     339-362
  • Lundy, L., (2005) ‘Family Values in the classroom: balancing parents’ wishes with children’s rights in state schools’, (2005) 3. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 1-27.
  • Lundy, L., (2005) ‘Pupils and Health in International Human Rights Law’, chapter 1 in Harris, N. and Meredith, P. (eds), Children,  Education and Health: International Perspectives on Law and Policy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005) . 3-28.
  • Gallagher, AM and Lundy, L., (2005) ‘Religion, Education and the Law in Northern Ireland’, chapter  in Martinez-Lopez J.L., and De Groof, J. (eds),  Religion and Public Schools: European Comparisons  (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005)   171-195.
  • Lundy, L., (2005) ‘Human Rights and Pluralism in Education’, chapter 3 in Donnelly, C., Mc Keown, P., and Osborne, R. (eds), Pluralism and Devolution in Education, (Manchester: Manchester University Press,  2005).25-36.