The University of Sheffield
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences

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Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth

The Centre for Childhood and Youth (CSCY) was established in January 2002 to bring together colleagues from different and diverse disciplines to further multi-disciplinary approaches to exploring the nature of childhood and youth in modern society. Its membership includes academics and researchers from fifteen university departments, spread across four faculties. The Centre also has a growing number of international partners from around the globe creating opportunities for collaborative research on cross-cultural issues. The Centre has strong working relationships with research funders at the local, national and international level and with local and national organisations that work with and for children and young people.

CSCY is strongly committed to actively involving children and young people in the research process and is actively involved in exploring and developing methodological approaches that enable their participation. The Centre is also actively involved in trying to improve the lives of children and young people. Many of its members are involved in helping to shape and influence both national and local policy-making especially in relation to children's and young people's services. As a result the Centre is committed to working closely with policy makers, practitioners and other interest groups who are aiming to improve both the lives of children and young people and the quality of services. This involves the Centre in a programme of knowledge transfer and dissemination to a broad audience including children, young people and their families.

Selected recent research

  • Writing in the Home and in the Street
  • Child Participation Project
  • Children's Playground Games and Songs in the New Media Age
  • Strategies for Environmental Learning in Typical and Atypical Development
  • Protecting and Promoting Children's Rights in the EU
  • Reduce, Reuse Recycle: Tackling the waste hierarchy through young children's television
  • Identifying and Analysing the Frequency and Nature of Food Content in UK Children's Television Programmes
  • Eliciting Children's Perceptions of Physical Punishment in Ghana
  • Application of a New Paediatric Preference Based Health Related Quality of Life Measure; the Child Health Utility 9D
  • Developing a Good Practice Guide and Training Manuel for Young People's Participation in Research, Policy and Practice Developments to prevent Violence
  • Analysis of Current Assessment Practice and based on Findings Development of Training Pack to Accompany the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families
  • Experiential Landscape
  • Homes Stories Research Project
  • The Imagination Library Study
  • Inspire Evaluation Rotherham

Find out more

CSCY To learn more about the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth please visit the Centre's website at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cscy