Children and Work Research Series

For the monthly online ‘Children and Work Research Series’ we invite researchers and practitioners to share recent work related to children’s work and child labour. The sessions are 1-hour long (10-15 min presentation and 45min for discussion/breakout rooms) and provide a space where individuals and organisations from within and from outside the network can come together to engage in fruitful conversations over relevant and diverse topics in our field.

For all upcoming and past events, see below.

Series conveners: Edward van Daalen, Olivia Lecoufle, Michael Bourdillon, Richard Carothers, Jessica Taft


Session 20 - 3 April 2024, 4pm (CET)

‘Labour Class’ Children’s Work and Schooling: Unpacking a Framework and a Reality

Dr.  Reva Yunus (University of York)

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Session 19 - 28 February 2024

Contested Child Labour Policies: Between Abolitionist and Regulationist Strategies in Peru and Bolivia

Johanna Pieper (GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies)


Session 18 - 25 October 2023

Special Session: The Kigali Declaration by Working Children and Youth


Session 17 - 27 September 2023

“It’s intimidating going into your first job”: Young Teens and Workplace Safety

Rebecca Raby (Brock University)
Lindsay C. Sheppard (York University)


Session 16 - 26 April 2023, 4PM (CET)

Mongolian Herders’ Children: Work, Agency and the (Re)production of Community

Kim Chi Tran (International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - Erasmus University Rotterdam)


Session 15 - 29 March 2023, 4PM (CET)

Visible Subjects, Invisible Frames: Children’s Rights, Work, and Violence in Lima, Peru

Dr. Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland (City University of New York)

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Session 14 - 22 February 2023

Children’s Participation in Work and More-Than-Human Sociality within Domestic Agricultural Economy

Dr. Barbara Turk Niskač (Tampare University)


Session 13 - November 30

Assessing the Outcomes of Child Labour Abolitionism in the Ghanaian Mining Sector: Evidence from a re-study

Dr. Sam Okyere (University of Bristol)


Session 12 - November 2

Sport and Child Labour

Prof. Jaap E. Doek (VU University Amsterdam)


Session 11 - September 28

Addressing the Psychosocial Aspects of Child Work: The Development of an Instrument for the Psychosocial Assessment of Child Workers (IPAW)

Susan Gunn and Martijn Hofman


Session 10 - April 27

Participatory Action Research and Innovation with Children in the Worst Forms of Child Labour: Methodologies and Learnings

Dr. Marina Apgar (Institute of Development Studies, UK)


Session 9 - March 30, 2022

Reflections on the Generational Aspects of Children’s Work and Education in Gaza, Palestine 

Dr. Mohammed Al-Rozzi (University of Bath)


Session 8 - January 26, 2022

Young Carers: Views on Child Labour and Family Caregiving

Dr. Feylyn Lewis (Vanderbilt University School of Nursing)


Session 7 - November 24

Questioning 20 Years of Child Labour Bans in Malawi’s Agriculture

Mavuto Banda (University of Hull, UK)


Session 6 - October 28

Play and work, continuum or dichotomy? Playfulness and the possibilities of children’s emancipation in and through work.

Dr. Matías Cordero Arce


Session 5 - September 29

Dialogue Works - Anchoring working children´s participation in societal and political processes

Antje Ruhmann and Claire O’Kane


Session 4 - July 28,

Children as Affective Laborers
Dr. Leigh Campoamore, Duke University


Session 3 - June 30

The Sense and Non-Sense of the ILO’s Global Estimates on Child Labour

Dr. Edward van Daalen, McGill University


Session 2 - May 26

Restoring a Dignified Self while Making a Living Together: Child Street Vendors in Los Angeles


Session 1 - April 21

Children’s Rights in Translation: The African Movement of Working Children and Youth