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Prof Laura Lundy

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

Room 71.02.004
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, Centre for Children’s Rights
Member, Management  Committee of the Improving Children’s Lives Initiative

Teaching:
Education Law (EdD Module)
Children’s Rights: Research and Practice (D.Child  and EdD)
PGCE workshops on the UNCRC
Supervisor, 5 PhD students and 3 EdD students

Research/Scholarship Interests

Children’s rights   Education law
Children’s participation   Participatory research



Recent research projects:

  • Advancing Children’s Rights in Ireland (2013-2014).  Funded by Atlantic Philanthropies in collaboration with Prof Ursula Kilkelly of University College Cork. See www.advancingchildrensrights.com
  • Unmet legal needs of children and young people (2013) funded by the Department of Justice, Northern Ireland (with Dr Katrina Lloyd and Lesley Emerson).
  • Implementation of children’s rights in Northern Ireland: a collaboration with the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (2013)  funded by ESRC  (with Bronagh Byrne).
  • Implementation of the UNCRC: A Study in Twelve Countries (completed 2012).  Funded by UNICEF-UK (with Prof Ursula Kilkelly and Dr Bronagh Byrne).
  • Transitions to Adult Services for Young People with Learning Disabilities in Northern Ireland (completed August 2012).  Funded by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People. (with Bronagh Byrne)
  • A Human Rights Review of the Northern Ireland Education System (completed May 2012).  Funded by Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission  (with Dr Katrina Lloyd and Ms Lesley Emerson an Dr Bronagh Byrne).
  • Barriers to Effective Government Delivery for Children in Northern Ireland (completed June 2012). Funded by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People  with B. Byrne (PI). See NICCY Publication

 


Most Recent Publications:

  • Blue-Swadener, B., Lundy, L., Blanchet-Cohen, N., and Habashi, J.  (eds) (2013, forthcoming) Children and Education: What difference do rights make?  Peter Lang (2013)
  • Lundy, L. (2013 forthcoming) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Child Well-being. Chapter 94  In: Ben-Arieh, A., Casas, F.,  Frønes, I. and Korbin, J. (Eds) Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective. Springer.
  • Lundy, L., Kilkelly, U., and Byrne, B., (2013 forthcoming),  Incorporating the UNCRC in law: a review of the legal options. International Journal of Children’s Rights.
  • Byrne, B., and Lundy, L. (2013, forthcoming)  Children’s Rights and Children’s Policy, Children and Society
  • Lundy. L. (2012) Children's rights and educational policy in Europe: Implementation of the UNCRC.  Oxford Review of Education. 38 (4). p. 393-411.
  • Lundy, L. and McEvoy, L. (2012) Childhood, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Research: What Constitutes a ‘Rights-Based’ Approach? In: Freeman, M. (Ed).  Law and Childhood studies,  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Lundy, L. and McEvoy, L. (2012) Children’s rights and research processes: assisting children to (in)formed views.  Childhood. 19 (1). p.129-144.
  • Murphy, C.,Lundy,  L., Emerson, L.  &  Kerr. K.,(2012): Children's perceptions of primary science assessment in England and Wales, British Educational Research Journal, 1-22.
  • Lundy, L., McEvoy, L., and Byrne, B. (2011) Working with young children as co-researchers: an approach informed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Early Education and Development. 22 (5). p.714-736.
  • Byrne, B., and Lundy, L. (2011) Rights Like No Other?  Protections for Students with Disabilities in International Law.  In: Russo, C. (Ed). The Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities: International Perspectives, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield.
  • Davey, C., and Lundy, L. (2011) Towards greater recognition of the right to play: An analysis of Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children & Society.  25 (1). p.3-14.
  • Elwood J and Lundy, L. (2010) Revisioning assessment from a children’s rights perspective: policy process, practice.  Research Papers in Education.  25 (3). p.335-353.
  • Lundy, L., and McEvoy, L. (2009) Developing outcomes for educational services: a children’s rights-based approach. Effective Education. 1 (1). p.43-60.
  • Lundy, L. (2009) Children, Religion and Rights in Northern Ireland. In Fineman, M. and Worthington, K. (Eds).  What is Right for Children?: The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights.  Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
  • Lundy, L., (2007) Voice is not enough: Conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  British Education Research Journal.  33(6). p. 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.  In: André, A.; et. al.  The UN Children’s Right Conventions: Theory Meets Practice.  Antwerpen-Oxford: Intersentia.
  • McEvoy, L. and Lundy, L. (2007) Securing a Human Rights Culture through the Protection, Promotion and Fulfillment of Children’s Rights in School.  In: Anthony, G., McEvoy, K. and Morrison, J. (Eds).  Judges, Transitions and Human Rights.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.