Children & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Children & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Education and the social mobility conundrum: An examination of the ‘psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’ in the context of disadvantaged students in the UK secondary education26
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings25
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness23
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?20
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence20
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse18
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors18
What is the Impact of the Benefit Cap and two‐child Limit on the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People in the UK ? A Rapid Review of Qual17
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?17
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The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia15
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual13
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights13
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–202012
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto12
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts12
‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis12
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia12
‘I Want to Learn and Speak Hoche, Rather I Am Becoming Han’: Amplifying Minoritized Indigenous Children's Voices Through a Multilingual Curriculum in an Indigenous School12
A Critical Review of the 2025 RSHE Guidance and Alternative Approach Framed in Safe Uncertainty11
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability11
Barriers to the Accessibility of Childcare Services for Children With Disabilities Aged 0 to 5 Years: Perspectives of Parents and Childcare Staff11
Schools as Sites of Activism: Students' Political Socialisation and Activism at School11
What can I do for my community? Contributing to the promotion of civic engagement through participatory methodologies: The case of young people from border regions of mainland Portugal10
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“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana10
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐1910
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia10
Trauma, Testimony and Lower Secondary Holocaust Education in Rywka Lipszyc's and Otto Wolf's Diaries10
The Importance of Relationship in Independent Advocacy for Care‐Experienced Young People10
Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani ChildhoodsBy MeghanneBarker, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. 234 pp. US$ 32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐177648‐910
Positive and Negative Experiences of Caring Among Adolescent Young Carers10
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan10
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Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study9
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life9
The non‐protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces9
Coming of age in a pandemic era: The interdependence of life spheres through the lens of social integration of care leavers in Quebec during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ Children's picture books By JenniferMiller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, ISBN 9781496840004. 270 pp., US$25 (pb)9
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children9
‘You Have to Understand That They Don't Understand’: Girls' Perceptions of Adult Support for Navigating Influencer Culture8
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review8
Children's Voices Across Time: Peer Networks, Parental Ambivalence, and Hidden Practices Online8
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool8
What About Their Future? An Analysis of Child Protection Systems' Focus on the Future of Newborn Children in Care Order Decisions7
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?7
The Impact of Family Bonding Activity Type and Time on Young Children's Social–Emotional Development7
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Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying7
Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.7
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices7
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study7
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people7
‘Longing So Much!’ Children's Meanings of Nature Contact During COVID‐19 Restrictions in Brazil7
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action7
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE7
Amplifying Marginalised Voices: A Rapid Evidence Review of Participatory Methods Engaging Justice‐Involved Youth6
The assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review6
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown6
Children's Digital Rights to Accessible and Reliable Public Sector Communication6
Disputing discipline: Child protection, punishment and piety in Zanzibar schools. By FranziskaFay, Rutgers University Press, 2021. US$ 38.95, US$ 150 (cloth). ISBN 9781978821736 (paperback); 9781978826
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom6
Children and Violence: Agency, Experience and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict. By Christelle MolimaBameka, Jastine C.Barrett, MohamedKamara, KarlHanson, and Mark A.Drumbl (eds.), Abingdon,6
Artificial intelligence for children: UNICEF's policy guidance and beyond6
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An Inclusive Approach to Gardening in Children's Settings: An Observational Study6
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit6
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK6
Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background6
Planning Without Children? Representation and Participation in Czech Strategic Urban and National Policies6
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Measures to Ensure That Social Workers Render Holistic Family Reunification Services: A South African Perspective5
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare5
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’5
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities5
Listening to Young People on Childhood Death: A Youth‐Focused Participatory Approach to Children's Palliative and End‐of‐Life Research and Policymaking5
Children and young people's access to food, education, play and leisure in times of crisis: An international, integrative review of policy responses, impacts and adaptations during the COVID5
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China5
“People as normal as possible”. Analysis of the construction of subjects in materials for the prevention of gender violence among teenagers in Spain5
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions5
Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood5
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey5
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment5
A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation5
The (In)visibility of the SDGs in Students' Learning in England: Evidence From Focus Groups With 15‐Year‐Olds5
Navigating the Activist Techno‐Social Landscape: Washington, DC High School Students' Engagement with Social Media Content5
Governance, Migration and Educational Rights: A Policy Analysis of Migrant Children's Educational Access in Sichuan, China5
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Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics5
No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines5
Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression5
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Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children5
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children5
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‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England5
Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research5
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan5
The Voice of a Reference Group in Research With Children5
Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency5
Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research5
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Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal4
The Becoming of Children and Caregiving Fathers—A Video Ethnography of Individual Parent Conversations at Swedish Child Health Centres4
It Is Because of Our Society, but Inside the Child: Ambiguity in Dutch Youth Health Care Professionals' Understanding of Normalisation4
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)4
‘She Tells Me I Am a Strong Person’: Romanian and Polish Young Migrants' Talk About Significant Adults in the School Settings in Sweden4
Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children4
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece4
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Students' Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Finland4
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood4
Play across childhood: International perspectives on diverse contexts of play By PeteKing, ShellyNewstead (Ed.): Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. pp. 244. £109.99. Hardcover ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐72 4604
Children as ‘becomings’—Mapping parental adultcentrism in Hungary4
Climate Anxiety in Early Childhood: Mental Health, Displacement and Affective Injustice in International and European Climate Governance4
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration4
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study4
‘I Didn't Have A Say’: Young People's Experiences of Parental Communication and Decision‐Making During Divorce in Türkiye and England4
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives4
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil4
Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study4
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‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes4
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations4
Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan4
Remembrance and ritual in English schools4
Evaluation of route choice for walking commutes to school and street space optimization in old urban areas of China based on a child‐friendly orientation: The case of the Wuyi Park area in Zhengzhou4
I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference4
Cripping the Campus: Youth With Disabilities, Agency, and Activism in Saudi Arabia Universities4
Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children4
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Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system4
Children's services and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Italy: A study with educators and parents3
Children's agencies navigating sexism and LGBTI+ phobia in Santiago de Chile's primary school3
Childhood and youth in India: Engagements with modernity By AnandiniDar, DivyaKannan (Eds.), Cham, Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. pp. 295, $159.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐31 3
Children's participation in everyday life: An international overview3
Girls, sexuality and playground‐assemblages in a South African primary school3
The context‐bound phenomenon of decision‐making on referrals: A scoping review3
Editorial: Sexuality Through Children's Eyes: Experiences, Perceptions and Meanings3
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Finding methods for the inclusion of all children: Advancing participatory research with children with disabilities3
Nomadic boat‐dwelling children of Southeast Asia: Discourses on the Sama‐Bajau children and implications on decentring child migration studies3
Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists3
The Impact of Parental Divorce on Children Through the Mothers' Lens: A Phenomenological Study3
Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study3
A gender‐based violence prevention programme—Young people's participation and activism in Scotland3
Narratives of child sexual abuse—Conceptualizing relational complexities3
The future of children's care By ChristianJerr, RobinSen (Eds.), Bristol University Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐6828‐7 (paperback)3
How do childhood and children's rights mean what they mean? Innovating the debate around the social semantics of childhood and children's rights through an interdisciplinary approach3
Disability and homeschooling: Parents experiences in Kazakhstan3
To Share or Not to Share: Adolescents' Experience With Sharenting3
Education of Afghan refugee children in Iran: A structured review of policies3
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight3
Pakistani children's lived experiences of relationships in the context of child protection services in Norway: An interpretative phenomenological analysis3
Telepresence robotic technology support for social connectedness during treatment of children with cancer3
Ethics committees and shaping of children's participation in qualitative educational research in Chile3
Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration3
‘Like a Kid's Book’: Pilot Testing of a Visual Informed Consent Form With Children in Canada, Ghana and Laos3
China's left‐behind children: Caretaking, parenting, and struggles By XiaojinChen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press . 2024. pp. 218 (hardcover). ISBN: 97819788371573
Area‐deprivation, social care spending and the rates of children in care proceedings in local authorities in England3
Rethinking child and youth activism in challenging times3
How Do 9–10‐Year‐Olds Conceptualise, Engage in, and Navigate Banter Within Primary Education? A Figurational Analysis3
Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism3
Critical perspectives on research with children: reflexivity, methodology, and researcher identity By SarahRichards, SarahCoombs, Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 192. ISBN: 978–1–5292‐13
‘What if someone had told me that as a kid?’: Professionals' perspectives on their personal experiences of family‐related childhood adversity and their supportive practice3
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How photos can affect children's perception of animal welfare: A study involving pupils from Portugal and Spain3
Autism and education—The role of Europeanisation in South‐Eastern Europe: Policy mapping in Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia3
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An Aid or an Obstacle? Parent and Teacher Perspectives on the Impact of Technology on Children's Wellbeing and School Life3
Using cinema voice to promote positive intimate relationships among European youth: The Lights4Violence Project3
Children's Ambivalent Experiences of Leisure Screen Use: Acceleration, Alienation and Resonance in the Digital Age2
Theorising Respect and Disrespect by and About Children and Young People: A Qualitative Systematic Literature Review2
The Rights of Very Young Children in the Digital Environment of the Family Home: Findings From a UK Survey of Children 0–36 Months and Their Parents2
Rethinking Child Activism: Civil Society Organisations' Practices, Challenges, and Transformative Approaches2
From Theory to Practice: A Framework for Collaborative Anti‐Racist Research With Young Black Children2
Containing childhood By DanielleRussell (Ed.), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2022. pp. 240, $99 (hb). ISBN: 97814968411792
Gina Crivello: A tribute2
Sense of Belonging Among Immigrant Adolescents: The Role of Schools2
Screens and Preschool Children: A Qualitative Exploration of Parental Experiences2
Body satisfaction and self‐perception profile: Reliability and validity analyses of the Children's body image scale for Turkish children2
‘Crossed the line’: Sexuality discourses of motherhood under 15 years in Uganda2
Agile Agency: Applying its Three Principles to Calibrate Adult Lenses While Supporting Young Children's Spontaneous Agency2
Adult Involvement in the Exercise of Agency in Child Protection: Children's Desires and Perceptions2
Young People's Experiences of Citizenship in Relation to Place: A Case Study of Three Rural Communities in Germany2
‘We Teach Kids About It So They Don't Get Addicted’: Gender, Porn and Sex Education in New Zealand2
Becoming a ‘good parent’: Social class and talk labour among South Korean parents2
‘Staying Close’: Enabling social interdependence for young people leaving residential care in England2
Children's agency within digital play and learning: Exploring the impact of shared play experiences on parent–child negotiations2
‘Children say playing and adults say working’: Children negotiating regulations on digital media in a Swedish preschool2
Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences2
Negotiating Caring and Education: A Small‐Scale Study of Young Carers and Their Transitions Towards Independence and Adulthood2
Investigating the Influence of Election Debates on Children’s Political Engagement: A Case Study of the Dutch Parliamentary Elections2
‘We Are Only Playing’: Reflections on the Pandemic's Effects on Immigrant Preschoolers' Mentalisation and Play During the Sand Play Workshops2
Cultivating child and youth decision‐making: The principles and practices of the ReSPECT approach to professional development2
Getting to the Art of the Matter: Exploring Autonomy and Relationality in Babies' Right to Be Heard Through the Participatory Arts2
Medicalisation, development and adult power: Exploring the contributions of the medical system to child disenfranchisement in theory and society2
Learning in and beyond the classroom: Communities of practice in education support for separated children2
Differential Response to Child Protection in an Intercultural Context: The Viewpoint and Experience of Parents and Young People From Ethnocultural Minorities2
Role conflicts of preschool teachers: From children's perspectives in a changing cultural setting in Taiwan2
Mental Wellbeing Needs and Support for Care‐Experienced Children and Young People in Secondary School and During the Transition to Further Education College2
Debt Bondage, Juju Rituals and Street Thuggery: Instruments of Manipulation in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Young Nigerian Women in Northern Ghana2
‘How can you be friends with that fatty?’: The othered body in narratives on weight‐based bullying2
Mapping Sustainable Development Goals for Children in India: Progress and Present ChallengesBy SwatiDutta and Khanindra Ch.Das, Singapore: Springer, 2024. 210 pp. £96.29 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐981‐99‐89012
Can club activities foster adolescents' citizenship in sub‐Saharan Africa?: The evidence from the Good Neighbors' club in Malawi2
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Children, deafness, and deaf cultures in popular media Edited by JohnStephens and VivianYenika‐AgbawUniversity Press of Mississippi, 2023. ISBN: 9781496842053, $30 (paperback)2
Recognised in a Quarrel? Positioning of the Child and Parent in Children's and Young People's Stories of Child–Parent Conflicts2
Does the early childhood education and care in India contribute to children's skill development?2
Dilemma of family education for hearing‐impaired children in China: Responsibility or evasion?2
‘It can be an abuse, even though both have consented’: Swedish preschool practitioners' discussions about teaching (sexual) consent to preschoolers2
Building Trust in the First Stages of Research With Children2
A content analysis of South Korean newspaper coverage of adolescent cyberbullying2
Growing up with disabled parents who use personal assistance (PA support): children's views and experiences2
Educating young children with diverse languages and cultures By KarenNemeth, London: Routledge. 2023. pp. 174. £39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 97803675350872
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Navigating the rights of intersex children in Zimbabwe2
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach2
‘Stranger danger’, ‘abduction risks’ and ‘fear’: Media coverage of children's independent mobility and parental attitudes2
The COVID‐School and Social Responsibility: Creative Expressions of Children's Rights and Agency in Iceland During the Pandemic2
Children's grief maps—Capturing children's grief and sorrow in family and close relationships2
Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality2
Parenting Across Distances: Negotiation, Cooperation and Resistance Among Chinese Liushou (留守) Families2
Children's perspectives on their play experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A video‐based interview study2
Understanding Young Children and Their Teen Parents' Needs Related to Education, Health and Well‐Being and Family Environment2
Adolescent trajectories in situations of adversity: A mixed‐method approach to understanding educational and leadership outcomes2
Think of the children!: Relationships between nudity‐related experiences in childhood, body image, self‐esteem and adjustment1
From being ignored to engaging in dialogue: Young boys' narratives of children's participation in child–parent conflicts1
Exposure to parental incarceration and subsequent illicit drug use: A review of the literature1
Welfare Cooperative Production of Community Care for ‘One Old and One Young’ in China: Practice, Dilemma, and Mutual Empowerment1
Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies1
Latent classes and longitudinal patterns of material hardship as predictors of child well‐being1
Fathers' transformative caring experiences of engaging in music and singing with their children1
Digital childhoods and multilingual identities: Preschool children's interactions with a picture book app1
Seen but Not Heard: Child Protection Workers' Discourses on Children's Participation in Foster Care Decisions1
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Beyond educational workshops: How child‐focused NGOs can draw African rural parents out for sustainable intervention in childhoods1
Between surveillance and self‐surveillance: What institutionalised girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality1
Being family via WeChat: Children's interpretation of long‐distance family relationships1
Empowering children as active and responsible citizens: A dramatic journey towards global citizenship1
A causeway to impact: A proposed new integrated framework for intergenerational community‐based participatory action research1
Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse and Gang Involvement. Violence at Home, Violence on‐Road by Jade LevellBristol: Bristol University Press, 2023ISBN: 978–1 529 219 807, 216 pp, £85.00 (hb).1
Temporalities in Crisis: Analysing the Sacchi v. Argentina Case and Children's Rights in the Climate Emergency1
Who do you think you are? Children's definitions of being a ‘child’1
Reconceptualising coproduction as activism together1
Making Inclusive Spaces and Practices With Disabled Children and Young People in Mainstream Education1
Political representatives' experiences of child participation in decision‐making processes: A qualitative interview study1
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