Aims
The Children’s rights, Citizenship and Participation Initiative (CCPI) was established at the University of Melbourne in February 2009.
The broad aim of the CPPI is to facilitate interdisciplinary research of international standing and strengthen the growing interest in questions of children’s rights at the University of Melbourne and beyond.
The CCPI’s specific aims are to:
- Phase 1: establish dialogue between key academics working within academic disciplines in Education, Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Law and Arts at the University of Melbourne that have the potential to contribute to a position paper on the inter-disciplinary implications of young children’s rights, participation and citizenship.
- Phase 2: promote dialogue between academics, policy makers and practitioners from diverse professional sectors such as health, law and education that are known to have an interest in furthering children’s participation at a policy level.
- Phase 3: generate an agenda for future inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral research, training, policy development and publications on how to conceptualise, implement and measure children’s rights, participation and citizenship in diverse areas of civic life.
CCPI members conduct research on key theoretical dimensions of children’s rights, citizenship and participation including:
- The Research section of this website outlines projects undertaken and funded by the CCPI.
- The Initiative is being funded through the University of Melbourne Strategic Research Initiatives Fund.