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My name is Cadhla O’Sullivan. I am a Research Fellow at the Children's Policy Centre based at the Crawford School of Public Policy, at The Australian National University.

I successfully defended my PhD in August 2023, graduating from Queen's University Belfast in December 2023. My research focused on a qualitative ethnographic style study with children and youth in Colombia, investigating a performing arts-based intervention for Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping. I have written two articles, a book chapter, and a case study style on my research and I have presented my findings at conferences throughout Ireland, the UK, and Australia. I hold a first-class honours degree in Social Science with University College Cork in Ireland. In 2019, I was awarded a master’s degree in Children’s Rights with Queen’s University Belfast, leading to a studentship to conduct my PhD research with the LINKS team based between Queen’s University Belfast and Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Conducting research with the LINKS team allowed me to gain experience as a research assistant, contributing to the production of a systematic review and an evidence and gap map (EGM) on Social Emotional Learning of children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). My research interests lie in the areas of child justice, children’s human rights, childhood poverty and inequality, child and youth wellbeing, child and youth development, sustainable education, and social cohesion using qualitative methods that are often creative in design and participatory in their approach.

Qualifications

Bachelors Social Science and Masters of Children's Rights

Research Interests

Children's Right's, Child and Youth wellbeing, Creative participatory research methods, Qualitative research, child development, social cohesion and peacebuilding 

Education/Academic qualification

Social Science, Education and Social Work, PhD, Queen's University Belfast

30 Sept 201931 Aug 2023

Award Date: 29 Aug 2024

Children's Rights , Master, Queen's University Belfast

31 Aug 201830 Sept 2019

Award Date: 30 Sept 2019

Social Science , Bachelor, University College Cork

15 Sept 201530 Aug 2018

Award Date: 30 Aug 2018

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