MEMBERS
Ekaterina Chicherina
PhD candidate, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Research Topic: Adolescents’ biographic projecting from the intergenerational perspective
Research Interests: qualitative research, children’s and adolescents’ well-being, biographical research, transition into adulthood, gender studies, social transformations, generational order
Contact: ek.chicherina@gmail.com | ResearchGate / LinkedIn
Emma Cooke
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Emma is a sociologist with expertise in the sociology of childhood and qualitative research, and she works in interdisciplinary teams. She researches Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), early childhood discourses, children’s rights, and the lived experiences of children, educators and families.
Research Interests: Sociology of Childhood, Sociology of Health and Illness, Departing Radically in Academic Writing (DRAWing), Crystallization, Feminist Theory, Relaxation, Sleep, Gender,Well-being, Down syndrome
Contact: e.cooke@uq.edu.au | Institution profile page
Naime Daout-Zidane
Master’s candidate in Psychoeducation, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Research Topic: How do Children with a Migration Background Understand their Well-Being in Canada?
Thesis title: Trauma and School Engagement with Students in Welcome Classes: A Qualitative Study on the Role of School as a Resilience Factor
Research Interests: Well-being, mental health and coping strategies of children with a migration background, Post-traumatic stress, School engagement, motivation and school adaptation of students with several challenges (PTSD, drop-out, acculturation stress, etc.), Child-centered approach, Participative approach
Contact: naime.daoust-zidane@umontreal.ca
Tatjana Dietz
PhD Candidat, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Research Topic: Infants in Childhood Studies and Educational Sciences
Research interests: Childhood and Family Studies, Social Pedagogy, Infancy and Early Childhood, Children’s Right, Child Protection, Early Prevention and Support for Families with New-born, Qualitative Research
Contact: T.Dietz@em.uni-frankfurt.de | ResearchGate / Institution profile page
Rhea Felton
PhD Candidate, UNSW University of NSW, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
PhD project: A narrative exploration of how children experience and ascribe meaning to their lives when their parent or carer is diagnosed with cancer
Research Interests: Qualitative Research, Child Participatory Research, Research Methodology, Creative Research Translation, Child Well-being, Psycho-oncology, Narrative Analysis
Contac: r.felton@unsw.edu.au | LinkedIn / ResearchGate
Lisa Fischer
PhD Candidate, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Phd project: Young people's discoursive relationship practices in context of a digitalized everyday world
Research Interests: Childhood theory and research, Historical perspectives on modern childhood and educational relationships, Well-being, Generational, pedagogical and economic orderings, spatial and discourse analysis, qualitative methods and methodology (esp. ethnography), research ethics
Contact: lisa.fischer@tu-berlin.de | Institution profile page / ResearchGate
Saira Hossain
PhD candidate, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Research Topic: What really for student well-being at secondary schools in Bangladesh
Research Interests: Children well-being, Socioemotional Learning, Gender and Diversity, Participatory Research, Adolescent problem behaviour, Teacher well-being, and Positive education
Contact: saira.hossain@unsw.edu.au | ResearchGate / Google Scholar
Yuli Ketain-Meiri
M.A. Student, the Paul baerwald school of social work and social welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Contact: Yuli@haruv.org.il
Miriam Kost
PhD Candidat, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Research Topic: Well-being in School Environments from Children's Perspective
Research Interests: Empirical Childhood and Child Well-being Research, Generational Ordering, Social and Educational Science, Qualitative Methods and Methodology, Discourse Analysis, Ethics in Childhood Research
Contact: kost@tu-berlin.de | ResearchGate / Institution profile page
Stella März
PhD Candidate, University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany
Research Topic: Children's wellbeing and intersectionality
Research Interests: Children's wellbeing, Intersectionality, Social inequality, Theories of subjectivation, Generational ordering
Contact: stella.maerz@uni-vechta.de | ResearchGate / Institution profile page
Damián Molgaray
Magister in Social Sciences – Researcher, Candidate in the Doctorado en Educación Superior (Higher Education), Research Centre in Social Sciences (CICS), Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Research Topic: Social and political dimensions of Children`s lives in Argentina, Online education in the 21st century
Research Interests: Children's Wellbeing, Safety as a social dimension of children's lives, Childhood citizenship, Childhood policies, Qualitative methods, Online education
Contact: damian.molgaray@gmail.com | Institution profile page
Carina Pohl
PhD Candidate, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
I investigate how children experience (un-)safety, vulnerability and well-being. One focus is on children living in out-of-home placements, especially in residential settings.
PhD Project: (Un-)Safety from the perspective of children
Research Interests: (Un-)safety, child protection, residential care, vulnerability, childhood studies, well-being, agency
Contact: carina.pohl@zhaw.ch | Institution profile page
Andrea Riepl
PhD Candidate, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Research Topic: Capabilities & Well-Being - a justice theory perspective on (in)visible childhoods
Research Interests: Childhood Studies, Child Well-Being Research, Qualitative Research, Ethics in Child Research, Capability Approach, Social Inequality
Contact: andrea.riepl@ife.uzh.ch | Institution profile page
Johanna Wilmes
Research Associate, Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Education, Frankfurt, Germany
My PhD research is about children living in residential care in Nepal. Through that I can show the need for a decolonialized approach in international childhood and well-being studies.
Research Interests: International Childhood Studies, Well-being, Children’s rights, Poverty, Motherhood, Social Policy, Mixed Methods
Contact: wilmes@em.uni-frankfurt.de | Institution profile page / ResearchGate