What is Child Rights-Based Research? (with Prof John Tobin)
Channel: Children in Theory
Date: 2023-11-07

A note from the contributors: “We would like to acknowledge the Bedegal people and the the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin nation, that are the Traditional Custodians of these lands. We would also like to pay respects to the Elders both past and present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are present here today”.

In this session, John Tobin introduces rights-based research as a theoretical tool for work on childhood. He presents the core debates and issues around rights-based research, and how they speak particularly to work on childhood studies, law and policy for children. The session engages with foundational questions about the relationship between rights and childhood:

Do (should) children have rights?
What rights do (should) they have?
Distinguishing a rights-based approach from other methods for engaging with social justice for children.

Tobin, J. (2023). What is Child Rights-Based Research? In N. Brando, D. Lawson and H. Stalford (eds.) Children in Theory: Theoretical Methods and Approaches to the Study of Childhood.  Online Masterclass Series. University of Liverpool.

For more information on rights-based research and the children in theory series, follow the link below:
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/research-themes/children-childhood/children-in-theory/rights-based/