Summer School on Keeping Children Safe
17 Jan 2012
From September 12th to 16th, UCC hosted a Summer School dedicated to furthering the goal of keeping children safe and secure. Funded by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, through the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the School was a week-long set of workshops and lectures that sought to identify, explore and develop the potential for the use of a wide range of sources and types of data in the legal, social policy and health areas.
Presenters included senior policy makers, experts working in statutory agencies and academics with a focus on how to use research and information with a view to promoting children’s rights and protecting their welfare. Participants came from Ireland’s third level institutions North and South and included experienced and early career researchers as well as those seeking to advance child protection through research and policy reform.
The School is a genuinely inter-disciplinary initiative undertaken under the aegis of the ISS21 (Institute for the Social Sciences for the 21st Century) Children and Young People Research Cluster; the Summer School organisers are drawn from three of UCC’s Colleges and from the Department of Law, the School of Applied Social Studies and the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Summer School Team: Dr Ursula Kilkelly (Law), Dr. Liz Kiely (Applied Social Studies), Dr Deirdre Horgan (ASS), Prof Eileen Savage (Nursing & Midwifery), Dr Catiriona Ni Laoire (ISS21) and Dr Jacqui O'Riordan (Applied Social Studies)
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