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Sharon Bessell

Professor, Policy and Governance; Director, Children’s Policy Centre

Qualifications

BA (Hons 1st class, Tasmania), PhD (Monash) Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy

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Presentations since 2009

‘What does “community” mean to children?’, presentation to the Children and Youth Research Centre seminar series, 10 December 2014.

‘Methodology and Ethics of Children’s-Rights Oriented Research and Practice’, invited keynote presention to Children Out-of-Place and Human Rights: International Symposium in memory of Judith Ennew, 27-28 October, 2014.

‘Children’s views on time with parents’, presentation to ‘Children, Families and Jobs in a Flexible Economy: Child-inclusive insights from Finland and Australia: Research-policy symposium hosted by the Australian Government’s Department of Social Services, the Children’s Policy Centre, Crawford School ANU, and NCEPH, ANU, 8 October 2014.

‘Children, Communities and Social Capital in Australia’, keynote presentation to the NAPCAN Play-Your-Part Awards, September 2014.

‘The Individual Deprivation Measure’, presentation to the Human Development and Capability Association Conference, Athens, 2-5 September 2014.

‘The Individual Deprivation Measure: A new approach to measuring multi-dimensional poverty’, presentation to the Young Lives seminar series, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, August 2014.

‘What does Standpoint Theory contribute to thinking about children’s participation in research?’, presentation to Think Tank: Seen and Heard: Meaningfully engaging children and young people in research, Institute of Child Protection Studies, The Australian Catholic University, 28 November 2013

with Jo Crawford and Janet Hunt, ‘Introducing the Individual Deprivation Measure: improving multidimensional poverty measurement to support gender equity and social justice’, Development Futures Conference, University of Technology Sydney, November 2013.

‘Children’s Understanding of Money in Families’, Presented at the International Child Support Symposium, The Australian National University, 30 October 2013.

‘Reconceptualising participation as strong, consistent and valued relationships: Lessons from research with children and young people in out-of-home care in Australia’, Invited presentation, Seminar Series 2013: Children and Social Justice, University of Central Lancashire, 26 September 2013.

‘Children’s Perspectives on strong, supportive communities’, Invited presentation, Seminar Series 2013: Children and Social Justice, University of Central Lancashire, 23 September 2013.

‘Advancing the Human Rights of Children: The Australian Experience’, Invited Public Lecture to Launch the Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation, University of Central Lancashire, 18 September 2013.

‘The Gender-Sensitive Deprivation Measure: A new approach to poverty measurement’ invited paper presented at the Round Table on Feminization of poverty, CROP 20th Anniversary Event, University of Bergen, 10 June 2013.

‘A Feminist, Participatory and Rights-Based Methodology’ presented at the Measuring Poverty and Gender Disparity workshop, University of Oslo, 6 June 2013.

‘She talks to me and she remembers my birthday: Relationships as a basis for children’s participation’ video presentation to the Children Young People and Adults: Extending the Conversation conference, University of Central Lancashire, 5-7 September 2012.

‘When children are asked about their communities: Some findings for socially inclusive policies’, video presentation to the Children Young People and Adults: Extending the Conversation conference, University of Central Lancashire, 5-7 September 2012.

‘Having a say on education’: Insights from participatory research with children and young people in Fiji, presented to the ACFID-Universities Linkages Conference, The Australian National University, 2012.

‘Children, Human Rights and Citizenship: Does citizenship matter in an era of human rights?’ prepared for the Human Rights and Citizenship workshop, University of Western Sydney, 27-29 August 2012.

‘National Parliaments: A point of disjuncture between global institutions and local ideas?’, presented at the En/Gendering Governance Workshop, The Australian National University, 6-8 August 2012.

‘What does ‘Community’ mean for Children?’, presented at the Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 25-27 July 2012.

‘Bridging the gap between vision and reality: Upholding the human rights of children in alternative care’, presented at Social Work Social Development 2012, Stockholm, 8-12 July 2012.

‘Charters of Rights for Children and Young People in Australia’, presented at International Conference on Law and Society, Hawaii, 5-8 June 2012.

‘Beyond Enrolments: Learning from Children and Young People’s Views and Experiences of School and Education in Fiji, presented to NOSEB public lecture series, 12 May 2011.

‘What Children in Australia Say about Community’ invited paper delivered to ‘Community Studies: Italy, Norway and Australia’ seminar, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 10 June 2011.

What is ‘Quality Education’? presented to the Childhood Research Seminar, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 13 June 2011.

‘What does ‘community’ mean to children?’ presented to the Social Inclusion & Childhood and Society Seminar Series, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, 14 June 2011.

‘Education beyond Enrolments’, paper presented to the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships’, University of Edinburgh, 23 June 2011.

‘She talks to me and she remembers my birthday: Relationships as the basis for children’s participation’, presented to the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, The University of Sheffield, 28 June 2011.

‘Relationships as a Basis for Children’s Participation’, presented to the Children and Families Research Centre Colloquium, Macquarie University, 10 September 2010.

‘Rethinking the Relationship between Human Development and Education: Beyond Enrolments’, paper delivered at the UNDP/ACFID Consultations on the 2010 Human Development Report, 13 April 2010, Canberra.

‘Forgiven and forgotten? Children’s Rights and Preventing Abuse in Care’, paper delivered at the ANU, Public Lecture on the Forgotten Australians, 9 December 2009.

‘Children and Young People’s Perspectives on Education in Fiji’, presented to the PNG and the Pacific Update, 8 December 2009.

‘Improving the Quality of Education in Fiji: Children and Young People’s Priorities’, presented to the Pacific Island Update, 20 October 2009.

‘Making Measurements of Poverty Gender Sensitive’ Address to the Annual General Meeting of UNIFEM Australia, 23 October 2009.

‘Increasing the Proportion of Women in the National Parliament: Opportunities, Barriers and Challenges’, presented to the Indonesia Update, The Australian National University, 9-10 September 2009.

‘Gender and Food Security’, invited paper to UNIFEM Spring Launch, 1 September 2009.

‘Rights-based research with children’, invited paper to reflexive practices group at the Institute of Child Protection Studies, The Australian Catholic University, 11 August 2009.

‘Poverty measures and gender sensitivity’, paper presented to the Assessing development: designing better indices of poverty and gender equity Workshop, Centre for the Mind in Nature, University of Oslo,12-15 March 2009

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