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Participation, protection and the porcupine’s dilemma: towards the inclusion of lesser heard young voices (2025)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. O., Cilliers, E. J., & Hackett, S. (online). Participation, protection and the porcupine’s dilemma: towards the inclusion of lesser heard young voices. Cities and Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2025.2502197

The inclusion of young people in urban planning is vital for creating equitable, healthy cities. Global frameworks like UNICEF’s “child-friendly cities” and the UNCRC (UN 1989) emphasise rights to participate, however, balancing participation with ri... Read More about Participation, protection and the porcupine’s dilemma: towards the inclusion of lesser heard young voices.

The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse (2025)
Journal Article
Rabe, J., Jobson, C., & Cairns, L. O. (2025). The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251323626

The interplay between participation and protection often sits in tension in research with children and young people (CYP), especially on topics related to violence and abuse. Drawing upon our three doctoral research projects, which involved different... Read More about The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse.

Laying the Foundations for a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework: Reflections From an International, Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2024)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. O., Fambasayi, R., Katsidzira, R. S., Milić, P., Cilliers, J., & Barros, P. (2024). Laying the Foundations for a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework: Reflections From an International, Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Urban Planning, 9, Article 8264. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.8264

Children, a unique yet marginalized social group, hold immense potential for driving meaningful social and environmental change, both in their current lives and as future stewards of the planet. However, their significant contributions often depend o... Read More about Laying the Foundations for a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework: Reflections From an International, Interdisciplinary Collaboration.

Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world (2024)
Journal Article
Banks, S., Bertotti, T., Cairns, L., Shears, J., Shum, M., Sobočan, A. M., Strom, K., & Úriz, M. J. (2024). Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world. International Social Work, 67(4), 890-904. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728241227062

This article draws on a series of international research-focused webinars with social workers in 2022. They were designed to examine the rethinking of professional values during the pandemic in the context of other global crises, particularly the cli... Read More about Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world.

Let’s get together and make change: Towards a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Brown, C., Cilliers, J., Cairns, L., Barros, P., Milić, P., Katsidzira, R. S., & Fambasayi, R. (2023). Let’s get together and make change: Towards a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework

Children live in cities and local communities, implying that they have proximity to the local government rather than the national government. The interaction of children with their governments happens at the local level. And, children experience the... Read More about Let’s get together and make change: Towards a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework.