Research

The Centre builds on existing research being carried out by staff across UCL and provides a vibrant space for developing future initiatives and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Some of the recent and ongoing projects informed by critical childhood studies which our member have been involved with include:

• Adult-Child relations in neoliberal times: Insights from a dialogue across Childhood and Parenting Culture Studies (IOE Global Engagement Fund, 2019-2020) – Charlotte Faircloth, Rachel Rosen
• Adolescent Sociality Across Cultures - Emily Emmott
• Children as Animators, Puppets as Social Beings in Contemporary Kazakhstan (Fulbright-IIE 2012-2013) – Meghanne Barker
• Children Caring on the Move (ESRC, 2019-2023) – Rachel Rosen, Veena Meetoo, Elaine Chase
• Children’s Letters for Palestinian childhoods (IAS, 2024) – Feryal Awan, Rachel Rosen
• Co-Construction of Life Narratives within Children's Institutions of Kazakhstan (NSF GRFP 2010-2015) – Meghanne Barker
• COVID-19: Families, children aged 0-4 and pregnant women: vulnerabilities, resources and recovery in Tower Hamlets (UKRI, 2020-2022) – Katie Hollingworth, Hanan Hauari 
• Creativity and Communication: An Arts-Based Study Focusing On Marginalised East African Communities In Kenya, Uganda And The United Kingdom (AHRC, 2023-2026) - Kirrily Pells
• Evaluation of the Foundling Museum’s ‘Tracing Our Tales’ Care Leavers Project (Foundling Museum/Oak Foundation, 2018-21) - Katie Hollingworth
• Exploring how caregiving promotes mental health for care-experienced young people: Developing logic models through an intersectional approach (UCL Grand Challenges, 2024-2025) - Veena Meetoo, Eva Sprecher 
• Exploring the wellbeing experiences of Mexican families with a preterm baby admitted into a public hospital (British Academy / Leverhulme, 2024-2026) - Rosa Mendizabal
• From anger to dreaming to real utopias: Re-thinking, re-conceptualising and re-forming (early childhood) education in the conditions of the times - Diana Sousa, Peter Moss
• Families and Community in the Time of Covid 19 (FACT-Covid) (BA, 2020-2023) - Charlotte Faircloth, Humera Iqbal
• The Lancet Commission on Racism & Child Health - Delanjathan Devakumar
• Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal (AHRC, 2020-2024) - Kirrily Pells
• Neonatal healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023-2024) – Rosa Mendizabal, Kristyna Skriczka
• Nkwihoreze: Intergenerational Creative Arts and Healing in Rwanda (AHRC) - Kirrily Pells, Kristyna Skriczka
• Partition of Identity: An exploration of Belonging in Bengalis in Pakistan, 1971- present (AHRC, 2021-2023) - Humera Iqbal
• Physical punishment and child outcomes in the UK – a mixed methods study (Nuffield Foundation) - Kirrily Pells, Katie Hollingworth
• Exploring Children’s Attitudes Towards Notions Of Digital Good/bad Through Hybrid Arts Practice (ESRC, 2023-2024) – John Potter
• Social reproduction in the shadows: Making lives with ‘no recourse to public funds’ (ESRC, 2023-2026) – Rachel Rosen, Eve Dickson
• Translating and Transforming Intergenerational Trauma: understandings, experiences, and meaning-making among ‘second generation’ survivors in Rwanda (Aegis Trust) - Kirrily Pells
• Countermeasures: Giving children better control over how they’re observed by digital sensors (Human Data Interaction / AHRC (2020-2021) – John Potter
• Wards of Court and the Inherent Jurisdiction – Rob George