LINKS

Childhood and Youth Studies
University-Based Centers for Childhood Studies
International Organizations
European Organizations
Research Nertworks, Centers, and Programmes
Research Committees and Societies
Children and Media
Reference Materials
Journals

CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH STUDIES

Brunel University, MSc, PhD Cross Cultural Studies of Children. Child Development and Youth
www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sssl/ssslcourse/postgraduate/msccrosscultanth

The University of Liverpool, MA, Children, Policy, Practice and Law
www.liv.ac.uk/sspsw/degrees/p-g/ma-children.htm

The University of Liverpool, MPhil, PhD, Childhood and Youth
www.liv.ac.uk/sspsw/degrees/p-g/mphil-phd.htm

University of Edinburgh, MA/diploma, Childhood Studies
www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/pg/index.html

Brock University, Canada, BA, BEd, MA, Child and Youth Studies
www.brocku.ca/webcal/current/graduate/CHYS.html

University of Wales, Newport, MA Childhood Studies
www.newport.ac.uk/edu/pt/macs.htm

The Open University, BA, Childhood and Youth Studies
www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?Q01B23_12_19

University of Wales, Swansea, BA, MA, Early Childhood Studies
www.swan.ac.uk/childhood

Carleton University, Canada. Child Studies
www.carleton.ca/cuuc/programs/childstudies.html

The University of Tennesseee, BA, MA, PhD, Child and Family Studies
http://cfs.utk.edu/ug/default.html

Rutgers University, BA Undergraduate Minor in Childhood Studies
http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/RU-CSMinor.htm

Plymouth State University, BA, Childhood Studies, Early Childhood Studies
www.plymouth.edu/psc/educate/undergrad.html

University of Auckland, New Zealand, Diploma, Youth Studies
www.ace.ac.nz/facs/social/youth/index.asp

Victoria University, BA, Youth Studies
www.vu.edu.au

The University of Melbourne, MA, Master of Youth Health and Education Management
https://psc.unimelb.edu.au

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, BA, Youth Studies
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=BP191

Australian Catholic University, MA, Diploma, Certificate, Youth Studies
http://inet.acu.edu.au/handbook/2005/Course/arts/myth.htm

College of Human Sciences, US, BA, MA, PhD, Family and Child Sciences
www.chs.fsu.edu/fcs/masters.php

Leeds Metropolitan University, BA, MA, Childhood Studies
http://prospectus.lmu.ac.uk/main/detail.htm?&p=32&course_id=2763&attend ance=1

Leeds Metropolitan University, BA Community and Youth
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/as/sss/youth.htm

Hampshire College, Childhood Studies
www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=2429

University College Chichester, BA Childhood, Youth and Society
http://www.chiuni.ac.uk/services/courses/Prospectusdetail.cfm?ID=32

UNIVERSITY-BASED CENTERS FOR CHILDHOOOD STUDIES

Brandeis University

The Family and Child Policy Center
http://www.heller.brandeis.edu/welcome/research_family_child_center.asp

Brunel University

Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sssl/ssslresearch/centres/cfar/

University of Cape Town

The Children's Institute
http://ci.org.za

University of Cambridge

Center for Family Research
http://www.sps.cam.ac.uk/CFR/

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

The National Education Research and Evaluation Centre (NEREC)
http://www.cmb.ac.lk/academic/edu/nerec/index.htm

University of Copenhagen

Center for Youth and Media Studies
http://www.media.ku.dk

Case Western Reserve University

Schubert Center for Child Development
http://www.case.edu/artsci/schubert/

Columbia University

Center for Children and Families
http://ccf.tc.columbia.edu/

Columbia University

Institute for Child and Family Policy
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/childpolicy/

Columbia University

National Center for Children in Poverty
http://www.nccp.org

University of Gent

Children's Rights Center
http://www.centrumkinderrechten.org

Georgetown University

Center fro Child and Human Development
http://gucchd.georgetown.edu//

Georgetown University

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
http://www.ncemch.org

University of Glasgow

Youth, Education and Employment Research Unit
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Sociology/YEERU/

Harvard University

Harvard's Children's Initiative
http://www.provost.harvard.edu/childrensinitiative/

Harvard University

Harvard Family Research Project
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/index.html

Johns Hopkins University

Welfare, Children, and Families
http://www.jhu.edu/%7Ewelfare/

Indiana University at Bloomington

Center for Adolescent Studies
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecafs/index.html

Leeds University

The Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/family/famhome3.htm

Mahidol University, Bangkok

National Institute for Child and Family Development
http://www.cf.mahidol.ac.th/

University of Michigan

Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,
Institute of Social Research
http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/child-development/home.html

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The Norwegian Center for Child Research (NOSEB)
www.sv.ntnu.no/noseb/english

Princeton University

Center for Research on Child Well Being
http://crcw.princeton.edu/

Stanford University

Stanford Center on Adolescence
http://www.stanford.edu/group/adolescent.ctr/

Trinity College Dublin

Children's Research Centre
http://www.tcd.ie/childrensresearchcentre/index.php?id=121&action=list

University of California at Berkeley

Center for Child and Youth Policy
http://ccyp.berkeley.edu/

University of California at Santa Cruz

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
http://crede.berkeley.edu/

University of Chicago

Chapin Hall Center for Children
http://www.about.chapinhall.org/

University of Florida

Center for Children's Literature and Culture
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/cclc/

University of Iowa

National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Enrcfcp/

University of London

Programme on International Rights of the Child
http://www.laws.qmw.ac.uk/pirch/pirc.html

University of Maryland

Collaborative Center for Child Well-being
www.cccw.umd.edu

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

The Center on Children, Families and the Law
http://ccfl.unl.edu/

University of New Hampshire at Durham

Family Research Laboratory
www.unh.edu/frl

University of Northern Iowa

National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers
http://www.campuschildren.org/

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/

University of Otago, New Zealand

Children's Issues Centre
http://www.otago.ac.nz/cic/

Penn State University

Children, Youth and Families Consortium
http://www.cyfc.psu.edu/

University of Pennsylvania

National Center on Fathers and Families
http://www.ncoff.gse.upenn.edu/

Queen's University

Institute of Child Care Research
http://www.qub.ac.uk/ss/cccr/

Rutgers University

Center for Children and Childhood Studies
http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/index.html

University of Sheffield

Center for the Study of Childhood and Youth
www.shef.ac.uk/cscy

University of South Carolina

The Center for Child and Family Studies
http://www.sc.edu/ccfs/center.html

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Unit for Child and Youth Research
www.tiss.edu

University of Virginia

Center for Children, Families and Law
http://www.virginia.edu/ccfl/

Yale University

School of the 21 st Century
http://www.yale.edu/bushcenter/21C/

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org

Anti-Slavery International
http://www.antislavery.org

Australia Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
www.acys.utas.edu.au/ysa/index.html

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
http://www.crin.org

Children Now
http://www.childrennow.org

Children's Defense Fund
http://www.childrennow.org

Children's House in Cyberspace
http://childhouse.uio.no/

Childwatch International
http://www.childwatch.uio.no

Defence of Children International
http://child-abuse.com/childhouse/childrens_rights/dci_what.html

Human Rights Internet
http://www.hri.ca/index.aspx

International Childhood and Youth Research Network (ICYRNet)
http://www.icyrnet.net/ 

International Children's Center
http://www.child-abuse.com/childhouse/childwatch/key/cie/

International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI)
www.icdi.nl

Radda Barnen
http://www.rb.se/eng/

Unicef
http://www.unicef.org

International Center for Child and Youth Studies
www.iccys.nl

H-Childhood: History of Childhood and Youth

Electronic Network
http://www.h-net.org/~child/

EUROPEAN ORGANIZATIONS

EURONET: The European Children's Network
http://www.europeanchildrensnetwork.org/

European Center
http://www.euro.centre.org

European Network of Ombudsmen for Children
http://www.ombudsnet.org

Save the Children UK
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk

The Norwegian Centre for Child Research (NOSEB)
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
www.sv.ntnu.no/noseb/english

RESEARCH NETWORKS, CENTERS, AND PROGRAMMES

Asia

Center for Child Development, Hong Kong
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ccd/

Child Research Net
http://www.childresearch.net

Europe

Institute of Labour and Family Research, Bratislava Slovakia
http://www.sspr.gov.sk/

The Catalan Interdisciplinary Research Network on Children's Rights and Children's Quality of Life, Girona Spain
http://www.udg.es/irqv/xciii/angles.htm

Childhood and Youth Programme, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna Austria
http://www.euro.centre.org/research_area.php?ra_id=2&ra_name=Childhood%2 C+Youth+%26+Families

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence Italy
http://www.unicef-icdc.org

Foundation of the Child and the Family, Greece
http://www.childfamily.gr

International Center for Child and Youth Studies
www.iccys.nl 

Latin America and the Caribbean

Center for Research on Childhood (CIESPI), Brazil
www.ciespi.org.br

Research Program on Infancy and Childhood, Mexico
www.uam.mx/cdi

North Africa and the Middle East

Centre for Children and Youth, JDC Brookdale Institute, Israel
http://brookdale-en1.pionet.com/default.asp?catid=%7B62D0C20A-A12B-408B-84DC-837 4D35C8F9D%7D

Child Research Unit, Center for Development in Primary Health Care, Al Quds University, Palestine
http://www.alquds.edu/

Information and Research Centre, King Hussain Foundation, Amman Jordan
http://www.alquds.edu/

The Institute of Post Graduate Childhood Studies, Ain Shams University
http://www.asunet.shams.eun.eg/

North America

Canadian Institute of Child Health, Ottawa Canada
http://www.cich.ca/

Children's Environments Research Group, The City University of New York
www.cerg1.org

Institute for Family and Neighborhood Life, Clemson University, South Carolina\
http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/ifnl/

The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, Canada
http://www.ecdgroup.com/

Family Life Development Centre, Cornell University, New York
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/fldc/index.cfm

Institute for Child Rights and Development, Center for Global Studies, University of Victoria
http://web.uvic.ca/iicrd/

Child and Family, Canada
http://www.cfc-efc.ca/

Offord Center for Child Studies
http://www.offordcentre.com/

Child Trends
Research, data collection, and data analysis on children, youth and families
http://www.childtrends.org/

Johns Hopkins University
www.jhu.edu/~welfare

The Pacific Region

Centre for Children and Young People, Southern Cross University
http://www.ccyp.scu.edu.au/

RESEARCH COMMITTEES AND SOCIETIES

International Sociological Association: Research Committee
www.ucm.es/info/isa

Society for Research in Child Development
http://www.srcd.org/index.html

International Sociological Association: Research Committee on Sociology of Childhood, RC53
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/rc53.htm

Children, Youth and Family Consortium
www.cyfc.umn.edu/about

CHILDREN AND MEDIA

MAGIC: Media Activities and Good Ideas by, with and for Children
http://www.unicef.org/magic/
 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Children’s House
http://child-abuse.com/childhouse/

Materials for the Study of Childhood
http://www.princeton.edu/~children/

JOURNALS

Childhoods Today, An online Journal for Childhood Studies
http://www.childhoodstoday.org/ 

Children, Youth and Environments
http://cye.colorado.edu/

Child Abuse and Neglect
http://www.ispcan.org/publications-ChildAbuseandNeglectInt%2 7lJournal.htm

Child: Care, health and Development
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0305-1862&site=1

Child Development
http://www.srcd.org/cd.html

Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography
http://www.srcd.org/cdab.html

Child Maltreatment
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200758

Child Welfare Review
http://www.childwelfare.com/kids/news.htm

Childhood
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200979

Childhood Education
http://www.udel.edu/bateman/acei/cehp.htm

Children & Society
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0951-0605/

Children's Health Care
http://www.leaonline.com/cookieabsent.html

Early Child Development and Care
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03004430.asp

Family Matters
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fammats.html

The Future of Children
http://www.futureofchildren.org/

H-Childhood, History of Childhood & Youth
http://www.h-net.org/~child/

Journal of Adolescence
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622849/description#d escription

Journal of Adolescence and Adult Literacy
http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/jaal/index.html

Journal of Adolescent Research
http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200883

Journal of Child & Family Studies
http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1062-1024

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
https://www.haworthpress.com/store/resolve.asp?d=/JCSA/

KidCulture
http://www.kidculture.com.cy/

Journal of Early Adolescence
http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=125

Journal of Research in Childhood Education
http://www.udel.edu/bateman/acei/jrcehp.htm

Online Journal of Urban Youth Culture
http://www.juyc.org/current/0302/taylor.html