Danielle Kennan Editor

Deirdre Horgan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies, and Deputy Director of the BA (Early Years and Childhood Studies) at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests include childhood, child welfare and protection, children’s rights and participation, children’s research methods, and child migration. Deirdre has published widely on these topics. She has conducted a number of funded research projects using child participatory methods as well as reporting on government consultations with children on a range of policy issues. She is currently co-investigator on IMMERSE - an Horizon 2020 project on socio-educational integration of children with migrant backgrounds.

Danielle Kennan is a Lecturer in Applied Social Science in the School of Political Science and Sociology at National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway) and a Senior Researcher with the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway, Ireland. Danielle has an inter-disciplinary expertise in human rights law and child and youth studies. She has a particular research interest in child and youth participation rights and participatory research methodologies. She has published widely in this field.