Resources

Journal Articles

  • Towards child-centred justice as a system-level paradigm shift: conceptualising a new framework through the Scottish whole system approach.

    2026 Foussard, C., Dyer, F., Davidson, J.

  • How do concepts and measurements of children's well-being outcomes align with perspectives of care-experienced children: a scoping review.

    2025
    Hall, H., Davidson, J., and Gale, C.

  • Hope and Justice: CYC as Human Rights Defenders.

    2024 Davidson, J.

  • Effective child well-being practices, barriers and priority actions: survey findings from service providers and policymakers in 22 countries during COVID-19.

    2023 Karadzhov, D., Wilson, G., Shields, S., Lux, E., Davidson, J.

  • Complexities of protecting children from violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: Providers' and policymakers' best practices, innovations and challenges in 12 countries.

    2023 Davidson, J., Karadzhov, D., Collins, H., Brown, A.

  • Protecting children's rights to development and culture by re-imagining "ocean literacies".

    2023 Strand, M., Shields, S., Morgera, E., McGarry, D., Lancaster, M., Brown, L., Snow, B.

  • Children's human right to be heard at the ocean-climate nexus.

    2023 Shields, S., Longo, A., Strand., Morgera, E.

  • “You cannot pour from an empty cup!”: child well-being service providers’ and policymakers’ professional supervision, coping and well-being during COVID-19.

    2022 Karadzhov, D., Davidson, J., and WIlson, G.

  • Online Intergenerational Participatory Research: Ingredients for Meaningful Relationships and Participation.

    2022 Lee, L., Wright, L., Machado, C., Niyogi, O., Singh, P., Shields, S., Hope, K.

  • 20th Kilbrandon Lecture (University of Strathclyde, 8 December 2022): Children of the beloved country - lives and legacies from Kilbrandon to Mandela.

    2022

    Skelton, A.

  • Online intergenerational participatory research: Ingredients for meaningful relationships and participation.

    2022

    Lee, L., Wright, L., Machado, C., Niyogi, O., Singh, P., Shields, S., Hope, K.

  • Practitioners’ and Policymakers’ Successes, Challenges, Innovations, and Learning in Promoting Children’s Well-being During COVID-19: Protocol for a Multinational Smartphone App Survey

    2021
    Davidson, J., Karadzhov, D., and Wilson, G.

  • Locating Scotland in the 20th Kilbrandon Lecture: children of the beloved country – lives and legacies from Kilbrandon to Mandela.

    2023

    Shields, S.

Commissioned Reports

  • Scottish Leaders Forum Action Group on Child Poverty: Commitment to End Child Poverty - A Call to Action for Leaders in Scotland.

    2025

    Davidson, J., Goudie, A., Johnston, P.

  • Theory of Change for Making Children's Rights Real in Scotland

    2022

    Barry, H., Davidson, D., Di Gianni, E., Morton, S., Tisdall, K., Wason, D.

  • Theory of Change for Making Children's Rights Real in Scotland: Evidence Paper no.1 - Policy

    2022

    Davidson, J., Wright, J.

  • Theory of Change for Making Children's Rights Real in Scotland: Summary.

    2022

    Barry, H., Davidson, J., Di Gianni, E., Morton, S., Tisdall, K., Wason, D.

  • Securing the Recovery, Ambition, and Resilience for the Well-being of Children in the Post-COVID Decade.

    2021

    Dirwan, G., Thévenon, O., Davidson, J., Goudie, A.

Other Reports

  • Interdisciplinary Learning Approaches to Tackle Complex Challenges: Insights from the Literature.

    WORKING PAPER
    2025

  • Global Declaration on Advancing Child-Centred Justice.

    2025

    Skelton, A., Leifard, T., Davidson, J., Foussard, C., Shields, S., Ozah, K., Perez, M.

  • Active Healthy Kids Scotland COVID-19 Report Card.

    2025

    Reilly, J., Bardid, F., Loban, M., Hughes, A., Henderson., Davidson, J., Tomaz, S., Craig, L.

  • ‘You just see the prices go up…’: Families’ experiences of in-work poverty in Scotland and implications for children's human rights.

    SERVING THE FUTURE POLICY BRIEF 2024

  • Policy Brief: 10 Key Messages for Reimagining Ocean Literacies that Consider Children's Human Rights to Development and Culture.

    2023

    Strand, M., Shields, S., Morgera, E.

  • SDG14 and Children's Human Rights.

    RESEARCH PAPER 2022

    Morgera, E., Sweeney, M., Shields, S.

  • Children's Human Rights & Ocean Plastics.

    INFORMATION SHEET

    2022

    Morgera, E., Shields, S.

  • CYC workers hold vital keys to global COVID-19 recovery.

    2020

    Davidson, J.

Inspiring Children’s Futures Learning Reports

  • Using a Whole-of-Government Approach to Advance Child Well-Being: The primary elements of a whole-of-government and whole-of-nation approach with and for children, and future generations.

    LEARNING REPORT 2022

  • Achieving the Well-Being of Children in the COVID-19 Era: The Centrality of the Economic Perspectives .

    LEARNING REPORT 2021

  • Protecting Children’s Wellbeing in Response to COVID-19: Learning from Past Epidemics.

    LEARNING REPORT 2020

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