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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Children and adolescents represent a significant proportion of the UK and global population. They face the daunting challenge of navigating childhood and adolescence on their way to an adulthood with a changing future of new and complex global issues.
As members of this research group, we are experts in child and adolescent research, investigating how children and adolescents experience these issues, and how those issues impact on physical, emotional, moral, psychological and intellectual development. Our research interests include, but are not limited to, quality education, good health and wellbeing, gender equality, peace and justice, and climate action.
Drawing on a diverse range of methodologies from humanities and social sciences, our researchers explore these global challenges using experimental methods, psychometric testing, digital technologies, creative methods and co-production to uncover new knowledge that will make a meaningful difference in children’s and adolescents’ lives. Our research puts the needs and wellbeing of our key stakeholders, the children and adolescents themselves, at its heart – not only through our focus and methods of research, but also by developing and applying the highest standards of ethical research practice and open, accessible research.
Working closely with our far-reaching network of researchers, practitioners, policy makers and care providers, we seek to achieve the greatest impact by gaining a better understanding of the issues from those directly affected and sharing what we learn, to enhance practice and policies affecting children and adolescents in the UK and throughout the world.
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Profiles
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Matthew Adams
- School of Humanities and Social Science - Principal Lecturer
- Centre for Spatial and Social Justice
- Understanding childhood and adolescence Research Excellence Group
- Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
- Comics and Graphic Narratives Research Excellence Group
- Centre for Environment and Society
- Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
Person: Academic
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Digiworlds: The role of digital technology in social connections and wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee children and young people (Digiworlds)
Tip, L. (PI), Morrice, L. (CoI), Derluyn, I. (CoI), Ortiz, E. (CoI) & Ubels, T. (CoI)
1/03/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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CAPONEU: The Cartography of the Political Novel (CAPONEU)
Devenney, M. (PI), Kellond, J. (CoI), Primera Villamizar, G. (CoI), Connell, L. (CoI), Velickovic, V. (CoI), Jordan-Baker, C. (CoI), Vuković, M. (CoI), Bergman, E. (PI), Božić, Z. (CoI), Cha, K.-H. (CoI), Dakić, M. (CoI), Držaić, K. (CoI), Gawarecka, A. (CoI), Glavaš, Z. (CoI), Ivić, N. (CoI), Mackay, P. (CoI), Mizerkiewicz, T. (CoI), Perica, I. (PI), Peyroles, A. (CoI), Potok, M. (CoI), Prakash, S. (CoI), Štimec, M. P. (CoI), Schaub, C. (CoI), Stewart, P. (CoI), Talwar Windsor, T. (CoI) & Terzieva-Artemis, R. (CoI)
1/02/23 → 31/01/27
Project: EU / International
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CCR: Creativity, Community and Resilience
Jenzen, O. (PI), Barras, A. (CoI), Pearce, R. (CoI) & Reed, L. (CoI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/08/24 → 31/07/26
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Cameras and young people belong together: Camera Comics (1944-46) as an imaginative, ideological and commercial space for addressing and depicting American child photographers
Pollen, A., 11 May 2026, Comics and Children's Magazines. Ahmed, M. & Busi Rizzi, G. (eds.). 1 ed. RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review
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Photographic Firsts, Seen From a Distance: Adult Memories of Childhood Camera Experiences
Pollen, A., 18 May 2026, In: Photography and Culture. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers
Pollen, A. (Curator/Producer), 14 Oct 2026Research output: Non-textual output › Exhibition
Activities
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Redes artísticas, entornos colaborativos y epistemologías amateurs en el arte no profesional [Artistic networks, collaborative environments, and amateur epistemologies in non-professional art], 1880-1940
Pollen, A. (Keynote speaker)
29 Oct 2026 → 30 Oct 2026Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Scouting for Young Photographers
Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)
29 Sept 2026Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Leslie Paul: The Dedicated Life
Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)
11 Aug 2026Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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