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Centre for the Study of the Child and Society, United Kingdom
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Centre for the Study of the Child and Society

University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8RT
United Kingdom

Tel: +44-141-339-8855, ext.4591 Fax: +44-141-307-8035
Web site: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Inter/Child/

Stewart Asquith
E-mail: gkua20@udcf.gla.ac.uk


Malcolm Hill
E-mail: gkua20@udcf.gla.ac.uk

Co-Directors


- The need to see children and childhood in a family and social context
Thematic areas:
- Children's rights
- Children's well-being
- Children and crime
- Child welfare and protection
Current research and related projects:
- Development of a European Information Centre on Childhood with the Council of Europe and UNICEF
- Development of a Research Programme on Children and Armed Conflict with the Scottish Centre for War Studies
- Children and alcohol
- Children and mental health
- Children and foster care
- Children and crime in Scotland
- Children and domestic violence
- Review of juvenile justice in central and eastern Europe
- Girls and violence
- Children's rights and models of participation
The centre offers courses in:
- Residential child care
- Therapeutic studies of children and young people

- 15 staff on varying degrees and types of contract

- Centre for the Study of the Child and Society is an interdisciplinary centre with "the child" and "childhood" as key organizing concepts. For that reason, the staff come from a number of different disciplines including:

- social work
- social policy
- law
- philosophy
- history
- psychiatry
- sociology

National
- Children in Scotland
- Children 1st
- Barnardo's
- Save the Children Fund
- NSPCC
- The Scottish Office
- British Universities
- NCH Action for Children Scotland
- Family Care

International
- Erasmus/Socrates programme, Council of Europe
- Directorate of Legal Affairs
- Directorate of Social and
Economic Affairs
- UNICEF
- Boston College Law School
- Centre National de Recherche
Scientifique, France
- Various European universities
- Various North American
universities

Last updated: 24 June 1999