CSC’s Annual Research Conference: 'Do I count if you count me? A critical look at counting street-connected children'

Do I count if you count me? A critical look at counting street-connected children

 

Consortium for Street Children’s annual Research Conference will this year address the challenges and opportunities of counting street-connected children. NGOs and practitioners across the world currently struggle with their own needs for accurate numbers of street children. Furthermore, counting street children is often a pre-requisite for NGOs securing funding from donors. CSC’s Conference will bring together NGOs and academics to reflect on the practice of counting street children, and to facilitate shared learning and sharing expertise in so doing.

 

This Research Conference comes at a vital time; the issue of whether or not street-connected children should be counted, and if so how they should be counted, is of great importance to NGOs and academics around the world. It is therefore crucial that we engage with the issues surrounding this practice, so as to ensure that, if street children are to be counted, they are done so in an ethical and participatory manner.

 

In order to address these issues, Conference attendees will hear from world-leading experts on street-connected children and counting, who will share their experience and expertise, whilst reflecting on the practice of counting. Our keynote speakers this year are Dr. Lewis Aptekar, Professor of Counselor Education from San Jose State University in the USA, and Professor Irene Rizzini, from the International Centre for Research and Policy on Childhood in Brazil. Our keynote speakers and other expert panellists will address matters such as whether we should be counting street-connected children, why we should be counting them, and different approaches to counting.

 

The Research Conference is to be held in a participatory format, in which leading researchers and practitioners shall engage in panel-led discussions, workshop sessions, presentations and networking sessions, in order to ask tough questions about counting street children and build useful connections for research. This will provide Conference attendees with the opportunity to share both expertise and good practice, and thus to facilitate learning and future research.

 

At the Conference, we have space for poster displays and accompanying presentations for research studies on counting street-connected children. If you are interested in displaying and presenting a poster on a research study please submit a one page proposal. This should include a summary of the research study, its aims, methods and key findings. Please submit any proposals to Natalie Turgut ([email protected]) by Friday 3rd October.

 

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The Research Conference is to be held on Tuesday 4th November, from 9:00am – 5:00pm, at the Amnesty International Human Rights Centre in London. Places for members of the Consortium for Street Children and students are free, and cost £30 for non-members.