Welcome to the Childhood Research Group

Our work centres on theoretical and empirical research on childhood and its institutions. Focusing on the different conditions in which children grow up from early to late childhood, we research subjectivisation and social practices in school and non-school educational spaces. A central objective of the team is to analyse how different social categories, particularly gender and disability, are rendered relevant in everyday life concerning locally situated processes and contexts of meaning.

International Conference Exploring Vulnerability in Childhood – Between Normalization and Disablement

In September we will hold an interdisciplinary conference. The aim of the conference is to bring together philosophical debates on vulnerability and constitutive dependency with international research from disability studies and on 'disabled childhoods'.

Please find more information about the conference and the registration here.