The Social Life of Chores: Rethinking Work in Childhood

The Social Life of Chores: Rethinking Work in Childhood was a postdoctoral research project by Barbara Turk Niskač funded by the Slovene Research Agency (Z6-1881) that ran from August 2019 to July 2021. The project explored conceptualizations of the daily work and play/leisure of primary school children in a rural and urban setting in Slovenia …

Open Theme

Our ‘open theme’ collection is made up of submissions we receive from children and young people on a rolling basis. 

CLAN – Children-Animals Friendships

CLAN – Children-Animals Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies, is a research project funded by FCT, the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation [PTDC/SOC 28415/2017] that explores the relationships between children and companion animals, in the context of family and domestic life. Running between 2018 and 2022, the project asks whether children-animal …

Connectors Study

A collection of 880 photographs from the ERC Connectors Study (2014-2019) taken by children aged 5-9 in Athens, Hyderabad, and London. The Connectors Study explored the relationship between childhood and public life, focusing on children’s encounters, experiences and engagement with politics broadly defined. Children participating in the study were given digital cameras by researchers to …