SUII Seminar Series : Children’s rights, social justice and social identities in Scotland: Intersections in research, policy and practice Seminar 2 Children and young people’s views on and experiences of intersecting identities and inequalities: facilitating participation and extending the dialogue 20 March 2013 Scottish Universities Insight Institute

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The seminar series Aims and outcomes create meaningful knowledge exchange opportunities between children and young people, practitioners, policy makers and researchers from the interdisciplinary areas of children’s rights, social justice, social identities, childhood/family studies and intersectionality create a network for interdisciplinary and cross-sector exchange and collaboration disseminate innovative research, policy and practice firmly put children and young people’s inequalities on the agenda in research, policy and practice

The Programme Team Prof Geri Smyth Dr Daniela Sime Dr Sheila Hamilton Dr Alison HosieDr Kristina Konstantoni Marlies Kustatscher Dr Akwugo Emejulu Prof John Davis University of Edinburgh Scottish Human Rights Commission University of Strathclyde Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People

Seminar 1: 2 December 2013 Intersecting Childhood Identities, Inequalities and Rights: Unpacking concepts and exploring implications Seminar 2: 20 March 2014 Children and young people’s views on and experiences of intersecting identities and inequalities: facilitating participation and extending the dialogue Seminar 3: 23 June 2014 Children’s rights and social justice: challenges, methods and research Seminar 4: October 2014 Children’s rights, social justice and intersectionality: putting theory and policy into practice (We will send out more information by .) The seminar series : four events

Seminar 1: 2 December 2013 Intersecting Childhood Identities, Inequalities and Rights: Unpacking concepts and exploring implications introduced the concept of intersectionality debates its meanings and purposes for understanding childhood identities and inequalities explore different ways in which this framework can be put into practice by practitioners and policy makers

Seminar 1: What is intersectionality? Interaction of race, gender and other categories of difference – power implications (cf. Davis 2008) not about defining groups as ‘victims’ but recognising inequalities and taking practical action to address power imbalances Identities or inequalities? Intersectionality and childhood practice Dr Akwugo Emejulu

Seminar 1: How do we understand children’s identities? Multiple identities Identities as performance, politically embedded – e.g. ‘normalised’ practices of heterosexuality, Whiteness, beauty (‘Barbies’) Dr Kylie Smith

Seminar 1: Intersecting identities, inequalities, rights and policy Taking children’s rights seriously Children’s rights as a mechanism for seeing the ‘whole’ child Equality and human rights ‘Practising’ intersectionality by putting the individual at the centre Nico Juetten Dr Alison Hosie

Today… Seminar 2 Children and young people’s views on and experiences of intersecting identities and inequalities: facilitating participation and extending the dialogue The second seminar focuses on children and young people’s views on intersecting identities and inequalities, and discusses how their perspectives can be heard and effect change in research, policy and practice. LGBT Youth Scotland, Children’s Parliament, Investing in Children

Seminar 2 Key Questions: What are children and young people’s perspectives on and experiences of intersecting identities and inequalities? What does it mean to live at the intersections and why do these matter? How do children and young people experience multiple and intersecting privileges, disadvantages and power? How can children and young people address this? How can we promote children and young people’s participation in identifying, understanding and addressing these issues?

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