Keynote Speakers
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
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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