Centre for Children & Young People’s Health and Wellbeing

At the Centre for Children and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing (CCW) – Body Mind and Media, we aim to understand children and young people’s experiences and worlds, to improve policy and practice in media, health and medical care practices. Taking a children’s rights stance, we:

Invite children, parents, and others to share their views and experiences in these domains.
Examine health and media systems and policies that shape these experiences.
Develop national and international research.
Engage in knowledge exchange and impact activities, including education for all stakeholders.

Our work, and its rights perspective, is often complemented by a reflexive participatory inquiry approach, a strengths-based stance that can work towards reducing moral panics of childhoods by viewing children as experts.