Child Rights Institute is a network with three tasks

Child Rights Institute at Lund University (CRi @ LU) is a multidisciplinary organisation active within the area of ”Child Rights”. CRi @ LU has three main tasks:

• Research
• Network support
• Education in Child Rights

Knowledge exchange and cross-border research applications

CRI @ LU aims to gather researchers in this field of knowledge to stimulate and to support new and continued research with a point of departure in the Convention of the Rights of the Child.

We want to promote national and international knowledge exchange and both keep in touch with and support researchers, educators and networks at Lund University with our knowledge in the area of ​​child rights and children's living conditions in society.

Another task is cooperation in order to promote and support research, recognising and visualising the child's perspective in different contexts – family, health, social processes – and bringing together that perspective with our knowledge of child development in order to promote the well-being of children.

The network also wants to stimulate and support cross-border education and research applications in this field.

National and international education

CRi @ LU will also work to develop education in the field of Child Rights - nationally as well as internationally. We will for instance work with internet based courses or perhaps MOOCs (massive open online courses). Education may also include Minor Field Studies (MFS), initiatives for teacher and student exchange, master's courses focusing on children and child rights, and supporting contact between research, education and practice.

Multidisciplinary research

We aim to encourage teachers and researchers from Lund University's different faculties to participate. Currently there are researchers from four faculties active at CRi @ LU (Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Faculty of Medicine). The ambition is for CRi @ LU to encourage multidisciplinary activities, based in social science perspectives.

Facebook networking

Get in touch with 300 change agents in 28 countries who are working with CRC (the Convention on the Rights of the Child Child) within education. Go to the facebook group Global Network for CRC Change Agents.

You are welcome to join the group!

Autumn 2018

Apart from the autumn seminars the Child Rights Institute is currently working on an Anthology book on Child Rights, the Global Child Rights Online platform including 16 countries in the Global South, as well as several Education and Cooperation Projects on Child Rights Practice in Sweden.

Current seminars

Welcome to our Autumn seminars focusing on new research ideas regarding the implementation and use of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which most likely will be implemented as a new Swedish law in January 2020.

Lund University is the only university in the Nordic countries to have a Child Rights Institute. 

We gather researchers from five university faculties and see this as a major and strong reason to create new research proposals together.
 

Autumn 2018, focusing on new research ideas on child rights!

This autumn we want to discuss ideas that could be developed for the Spring applications 2019 at the research councils.

• 15 October
  Open to all!
  Please e-mail Per Wickenberg per [dot] wickenberg [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se or Kerstin Svensson kerstin [dot] svensson [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se if you would like to participate.
  
  Discussions about research proposals.
  
  Time and place: 13:15, Socialhögskolan, Bredgatan 26, Lund University, Lund
   
• 26 November
  Open to all!
  Please e-mail Per Wickenberg per [dot] wickenberg [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se or Kerstin Svensson kerstin [dot] svensson [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se if you would like to participate.
  
  Continued discussions about research proposals.
  
  Time and place: 13:15, Socialhögskolan, Bredgatan 26, Lund University, Lund

Welcome to our seminars!
Kerstin Svensson, Per Wickenberg, Lina Ponnert and Anna Sonander