The Children and Work Network presents the Children and Work Research Series to which we invite researchers and practitioner 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) 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
Series conveners: Edward van Daalen, Olivia Lecoufle, Michael Bourdillon and Jessica Taft
Session 24 - 11 December 2024, 4PM (CET)
The Emotional Labor of Latinx Children for Family and Peers - Dr. Karina Ruiz
Session 25 - 9 April 2025, 4PM (CET)
The Climate Crisis: Working Children’s Perspectives
Session 23 - 30 October 2024
Situating Child Work and Children’s Responsibilities within Indigenous Notions of Personhood and Social Relations in Ghana
Afua Twum-Danso Imoh – University of Bristol
Session 22 - 2 October 2024
“I think they call us kidfluencers” - Children and Work in the Swedish Influencer Culture Industry
Ylva Ågren – University of Gothenburg
Session 21 - 29 May 2024
‘Modern Slaves’ who go to School? A Critical Look at Canada’s Child Labour Laws
Dr. Edward van Daalen (McGill University)
Session 20 - 3 April 2024
‘Labour Class’ Children’s Work and Schooling: Unpacking a Framework and a Reality
Dr. Reva Yunus (University of York)
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
