Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY)

Description

The Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY) is a pan-university research centre at the University of Sussex, with a membership that spans social sciences, arts, humanities, psychology, and professional fields including social work, law, education and health. In 2023, the CIRCY was awarded Centre of Excellence status by the University of Sussex.

CIRCY’s research is innovative, interdisciplinary and international in scope, and aims to reflect and address real world concerns whilst developing new academic understandings. Their diverse research and scholarship are united by a critical engagement with children and young people’s lives in time and place, and a focus on the rights, voice and welfare of the child or young person at the centre of inquiry. Considered together, the critical and multidisciplinary perspectives offered by CIRCY projects and outputs enrich understandings of childhood and youth within the fields of research, policy, and practice.

Research within the Centre is conducted within the themes:

• Childhood publics;
• ‘Good Childhoods’ and (Extra)ordinary Children;
• Emotional lives;
• Digital childhoods;
• Methodological innovation.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2012

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University affiliation(s)

University of Sussex
Brighton

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