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The Children in Child Health:
Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand
– Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies, 2020 –
PhD Wisdoms from a Recent Graduate
I wrote these “wisdoms” when I was freshly out of the PhD and I think they’re still relevant. Some of this you will already know, some will not be relevant…
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For what does research matter?
Following the announcement that New Zealand is cutting funding to social science and humanities research, Julie Spray argues for the value of funding research of unmeasurable value. Image credit Julie…
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Denaturalising the “adult voice”
Childhood studies has spent a long time deconstructing “the child’s voice.” But what has this attention to children’s “voices” meant we overlook? Most child-centred research involves adult researchers, then children’s…
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New study: now recruiting
We know interdisciplinary teamwork comes with unique challenges that can influence the way knowledge is produced and translated. So how does disciplinary knowledge get heard?
We’re investigating what happens to…
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The Public-in-Waiting
Are children part of the public in “public health”? Using a critical discourse analysis of NZ’s Covid public health political & media messaging, we conclude: no, but children’s representations are…
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What do we lose when we lose children?
Re-childing the COVID-19 pandemic; and what we lose from the un-childed public “As the pandemic has shown, when children are neither seen nor heard they are easily forgotten from the…
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Love and Agency in Ethnographic Fieldwork with Children
Analysing emotions such as love can enable new ways of understanding human relationships and deepen reflexive ethnographic practice. Love in research with children, however, carries a unique set of implications…
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Where have all the children been? Children’s unseen contributions to pandemic survival
Amidst the pandemic chaos of 2020 we asked, where have all the children gone? In our podcast that year for AAA’s Raising our Voices we drew attention to children’s silencing…
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