We are pleased to announce two exciting funded PhD studentships at the Centre for Children’s Rights.

1. Deaf children and young people’s access to key supports and provisions across health and education: A rights-based approach: supervised by Prof. Bronagh Byrne and Dr. Cate McNamee, this project will form a partnership between the Centre for Children's Rights, QUB and the National Deaf Children's Society. It will adopt a children’s rights-based approach to understanding availability of, access to, adaptability and acceptability of supports and services for deaf children and young people and their families across health (including audiology) and education (including early years), and the extent of co-operation between these areas. Read more.

2.  Developing a child-led measure of poverty: supervised by Dr. Mary-Louise Corr and Dr. Cate McNamee, this research will form part of an ongoing collaboration between the Centre for Children’s Rights (QUB), Save the Children UK and Ulster University which focuses on developing methodological approaches to participatory research with children on poverty. This project aims to understand poverty from children’s own perspectives. Children’s views and experiences of an adequate standard of living will be used to create a new measure of child poverty, enabling policymakers to develop more effective and equitable policies grounded in children’s views and experiences of poverty. Read more.

Application deadline for both is 31st March 2025. Studentships will start on 1st October 2025.