last revised 10/19/2006

Research Themes

The following themes have been identified though a dialogue amongst WUN partners. Researchers from WUN partners are invited to participate in work related to existing themes, and/or to develop new themes of interest.

• Children and Young People’s Participation
• Health and well being in the lives of children and young people
• Professional practice in working with Children, Young People and their families
• Children, Youth and kinship: ‘Doing family’
• Childhood and Youth transitions and questions of cultural differences
• Vulnerable adolescence
• Children and the media
• Space, place and culture; the material world and design engineering place
• Children’s rights
• Understanding young masculinities in its cultural context

Cross cutting themes

• Theory
• Research methods
• Comparative study

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