Rebuilding from COVID

In the light of the global, significant, and long-term austerity that now seem inevitable, as every nation attempts to restore fiscal sustainability after incurring enormous costs in the early phases of the crisis, we are anticipating immense pressure on our public services.

Pressure to reduce expenditure on programmes to address the needs of children will come at a moment of even greater need than we saw pre-COVID-19. We risk having a different order of magnitude in global and intra-national inequality, even from what there has been in the past.

In this context, it is very likely that children will be one of the most hard hit groupings in every society.

With this perhaps unprecedented threat to the progress that we have made in recent times, children must be unambiguously brought to the fore, as national governments turn their minds to future planning and the allocation of scarce resources.

Children who face the greatest adversity are those whose rights are most likely to be violated, and at greatest risk of being left behind. The carefully articulated arguments for why children must be a priority—need to be right at the front of the minds of national governments.

This important challenge is at the heart of this project.

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A new Doctoral Research Centre for Inspiring Children's Futures

We are inviting globally-minded PhD students to explore ways to best ensure children's rights and wellbeing in the medium-term COVID Era, in an exciting, innovative and multidisciplinary Doctoral Research Centre.

To apply to study for a self-funded PhD please see the University of Strathclyde website.

Or, to apply for fully-funded studentship opportunities when available, please see the links below: