Vicky Johnson

University of the Highlands and Islands - UHI, Inverness College, Faculty Member

University of the Highlands and Islands - UHI, UHi Centre for Remote and Rural studies, Faculty Member

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Professor Childhood, Youth and Sustainability, Director Centre for Living Sustainability, University of the Highlands and Islands
Phone: 07766202636
Address: Inverness College, 1 Inverness Campus, IV2 5NA

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Children's Participation

Landscapes of rural youth opportunities: Paper for IFAD's 2019 Rural Development Report

Children’s Participation in Global Contexts: Going Beyond Voice

Children's and young people’s right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and tak... more Children's and young people’s right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and taken up internationally, as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet much of this has focused on collecting children’s voices, rather than achieving change, and has met its limits. This book provides an analysis of children’s participation in formal, collective and action research processes in six different international settings. It offers a deeper understanding of what helps and facilitates children's and young people’s participation through research, evaluation and decision-making to go beyond voice and effect change. This analysis is set in the context of historical and current discourses of participation, the sociology of childhood, contemporary anthropology, children’s geography and international development. Themes addressed include time and processes in children’s participation, shifting and multiple identities of children, political and cultural contexts, places and spaces children inhabit, skills and capacities of adults, accountability and power. The analysis promotes an approach to children’s participation as relational and collaborative, and will contribute to answering some of the questions facing practitioners and researchers embarking on participatory enquiry with children and young people. This is an invaluable book for practitioners and for scholars, postgraduates in anthropology, sociology, human geography, childhood studies, development studies, social policy, social work, community work, education, youth work and those with an interest in citizenship, children’s rights and human rights. Researchers and practitioners in UN, government and non-government services will also find it applicable to engaging with children and young people.

Children’s autonomous organisation

Bristol University Press eBooks, Aug 31, 2018

Children in Street Situations and Their Rights

Springer eBooks, 2023

Understanding Children’s Harmful Work

Bristol University Press eBooks, Apr 28, 2023

UNGEI Case Study Summary: The Role of Girls’ Education in Pendekezo Letu’s Interventions in Nairobi

This report sets out the findings of research into the longer-term impact of PKL’s holistic progr... more This report sets out the findings of research into the longer-term impact of PKL’s holistic programme on the lives of street girls. The findings will ensure that PKL’s programming is informed by the experiences, challenges and successes of street-connected children, and will enable PKL to identify aspects of the programme that can be scaled up to improve impact. The results will also contribute to a better understanding of best practice in working with street-connected girls. The findings will be disseminated at a national and international level in order to inform policy, practice and academic discourse on working with marginalised and street-connected children. Best practice and methodologies will also be shared with ChildHope’s partners, and by the University of Brighton and ODI in academic and practitioner discourses worldwide.

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Participation For, With, and By Girls: Evidencing Impact

This paper presents the findings of a review of publicly available, published evidence on the eff... more This paper presents the findings of a review of publicly available, published evidence on the efficacy of development projects that self-identify as ‘girl-led’, both within academic literature and from established organisations working with girls. What is meant by ‘girl-led’, of course, varies hugely. Terms such as girl-led, girl-centred, and girl-focused are often defined fluidly and used interchangeably by various implementation agencies. Because our review contained a wide and diverse range of programme interventions, we divided this range into three categories during our analysis – for, with, and by girls. This paper focuses on ‘girl-led’ work, rather than, for example, a gender-based approach to addressing girls’ rights.

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Ativistas (Crianças) / Activist (Children)

UMinho Editora eBooks, Dec 13, 2021

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