Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future? / MARE Publication Series Bd.27 (PDF)

social justice and the human rights of children; (ii) childhoods in transition in coastal and regional communities; (iii) the gendered and generational dimensions of poverty and inequality. She is recognised internationally as a leader in rights-based, child-centred research methodologies, and has published widely on undertaking research with children.



Sharon is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and teaches courses on social policy, poverty reduction, globalisation, global development, children's human rights, and gender.



Dympna Devine is Full Professor of Education at UCD School of Education, and Vice Principal for Research Innovation and impact in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, Dublin, Ireland. She works at the intersection of sociologies of education and childhood, with a specialist interest in research related to children's rights, equalities and social justice at the intersection of their everyday lives at home, school and in their local communities. She has published widely in these areas, in addition to a longstanding focus on migrant children's experiences in schools. She is currently working on two mixed methods longitudinal studies of children's school and community lives in Ireland (www.cslstudy.ie) and in Sierra Leone (www.safelearning.ie). She is executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education and Editor of the Routledge book series on Migration and Education.



Firouz Gaini is professor in anthropology at the University of the Faroe Islands. He is a co-editor of Island Studies Journal, BARN (Nordic Childhood Journal), and Fróðskaparrit (Faroese Scientific Journal). His fieldwork is from the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Japan. He has published widely on the topics of young people's everyday lives and futures, fatherhood and masculinities, and small island communities in articles and books. He is co-editor of the volume Gender and Island Communities (Routledge 2020).He is the Research Leader of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences and a Deputy Member of the Board of the University of the Faroe Islands. Gaini was affiliated to the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, in Trondheim 2012-2015. Besides the academic literature, is also the author of collections of essays and short stories. He currently lives in Torshavn, Faroe Islands.



Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology at European University Cyprus. His research interests include children's identities as they intersect with nationalism and questions of borders in conflict societies and children's role as political actors in the context of climate change activism. He also has an ongoing interest in questions of children's participation in research and knowledge production in childhood studies. He has coordinated and participated in several national and international research projects and his research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the European Commission, the United Nations Development Programme, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, the Office of the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Cyprus, and the A.G. Leventis Foundation through the Hellenic Observatory at the LSE. He is the author of Disclosing Childhoods: Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies (2018, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Reimagining Childhood Studies (2019, Bloomsbury) and Children and Borders (2014, Palgrave Macmillan). He is an Associate Editor of the Sage Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, a co-editor of the journal Childhood (Sage), a member of the editorial boards of Children and Society and Wheelock International Journal of Children, Families, and Social Change, and a co-editor of the book series Studies in Childhood and Youth (Palgrave).