In celebration of #WorldDigitalPreservationDay this year, Melissa Nolas, Director of the Children’s Photography Archive takes a moment to reflect on her journey in digital preservation and what she’s learnt over the last few months of thinking and doing digital preservation work for the CPA. My first encounter with digital preservation – low key, personal – …

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A new toolkit for PSHE and Citizenship Education classes called ‘Let’s Talk About…’ has just been released and is now free to download on the project section of the Childhood Publics Research Programme website. In the blog post that follows, Melissa Nolas, the Director of the Childhood Publics Research Programme, writes about the background and …

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  Melissa Nolas, the Director of the Childhood Publics Research Programme, writes about new pilot research on identifying and understanding early, childhood forays into photographic practice, and invites anyone identifying as a ‘child photographer’ to get in touch with her. If I think of my childhood in terms of objects, beyond my toys, I would …

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Elina Moraitopoulou is a doctoral student at the University of Hamburg and a researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Elina has been experimenting with the photographs from the Connectors Collection in Children’s Photography Archive for her doctoral research and here she writes about her experience with children in English primary schools.  I am caught …

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In this post Martin Bittner, Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis, all members of the Childhood Publics Network, reflect on their recent participation at the 6th Ethnography in Education conference in Halle, Germany and how this is a great example of working collaboratively in a network. 

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At our closing event in January of this year, we invited Catherine Fehily from the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork City, Ireland to contribute her reflections on the Children's Photography Archive which we were launching on the day.

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In this post Melissa Nolas, co-director of Childhood Publics research programme, reflects on childhood, animals, and nature, and what children's photographs and experiences from the ERC Connectors Study tell us about these themes, which might provide one way of understanding children's action on climate change. 

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