Prof. Dr. Shazly Savahl
Toward a Child Conscious Society: Social Justice Pathways for Child Well-Being in Challenging Contexts
Networks
•Principal investigator of the Children’s Worlds: International Survey on Children’s Well-Being
•Principal investigator of the Multinational Qualitative Study on Children’s Understanding of Well-Being
•Founding and current board member of the South Africa Positive Psychology Association
•Member of the National Children’s Rights Intersectoral Coordinating Committee
•Executive board member of the International Society for Child Indicators.
Research focus
Childhood studies, children’s subjective well-being, child well-being indicators, child-centred research, children’s rights, inequality, racism, discrimination, global social justice
Industrial-Organisational Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Dynamics of Youth, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Dr. Stephanie Simon
Poverty in Childhood: Constructions of professionals in early childhood education and care (ECEC)
Networks
•Founding member and board member of the Institute for Social Theory and Research (ITES), where she contributed to the expert report on ‘Rethinking early childhood education, upbringing and care’ for the Pestalozzi-Fröbel Association
Research focus
Childhood studies, children's perspectives; social inequalities, poverty, ideologies of unequal worth and right-wing dynamics; qualitative-reconstructive social research
Institute for Social Pedagogy, Adult Education and Pedagogy in Early Childhood, Dortmund University, Germany