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AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK BASED AT LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY

Global Citizenship & Children’s Rights Network

Global Citizenship & Children’s Rights Network (GLOCCRIN) brings together academic researchers, students, independent researchers, and practitioners from across the global south who are keenly interested in interdisciplinary studies surrounding global citizenship and children’s rights, particularly topical issues such as social justice, inequalities, culture, sustainability and inclusion. GLOCCRIN welcomes both those in academic and non-academic roles interested in the knowledge, understanding and advancement of children’s rights.

WHAT WE DO

GLOCCRIN is based at Leeds Trinity University and has representatives in other universities in the UK and internationally to support research and publications relating to global citizenship; social justice, culture, sustainability; inclusion and children’s rights, particularly in the global south.

The research network seeks to engender a confrontation between different approaches and ideologies in the field of global citizenship and children’s rights by:

Providing

An interactive platform for members to contribute to contemporary debates nationally and internationally

Collaborating

To conducting high-quality research, which provides evidence for policymaking, knowledge exchange, public engagement, and publications.

Inspiring

Inter-disciplinary research on global citizenship and children’s rights in the global south and the diaspora

Planning

Workshops, seminars and conferences.

Fostering

Comparative approaches which bring about the contrast between societies and between national sociological traditions

Examining

Critical discourses and confronting ideologies and narratives that underpin inequalities and social injustice

Engaging

With civil society and political groups in discussions that feed into policy and research as well as advance the values of global citizenship and children’s rights

ACTIVITIES

GLOCCRIN is based at Leeds Trinity University and has representatives in other universities in the UK and internationally to support research and publications relating to global citizenship; social justice, culture, sustainability; inclusion and children’s rights, particularly in the global south.

The research network seeks to engender a confrontation between different approaches and ideologies in the field of global citizenship and children’s rights by:

Engendering

Inter-disciplinary research on global citizenship and children’s rights in the global south and the diaspora

Hosting

Quarterly members’ meetings for promoting and enhancing collaborations (funded research/ publications/ partnerships etc,)

Organising

Inter-disciplinary research on global citizenship and children’s rights in the global south and the diaspora

Identifying

Funding streams for knowledge exchange and community advocacy to impact policy in relevant areas.

Developing

Meaningful partnerships with non-academic organisations and professionals with expertise

Sharing

News and events of mutual interest such as conferences, scholarships and funding opportunities and collaborating in funded applications and publications.

Promoting

Inter-disciplinary research on global citizenship and children’s rights in the global south and the diaspora