Professor Aoife Daly

Aoife teaches and researches children's rights, particularly their environmental rights, and is the author of Children, Autonomy and the Courts (Brill, 2018). She enjoys teaching children about human rights through art.

Dr. Nabin Maharjan

Nabin holds a Ph.D. in Child and Youth Studies from Brock University, where his thesis focused on Nepali Youth’s Community Participation in the Post-Disaster Context of Nepal. His academic teaching and research interests are in the area of children’s rights, youth socio-political participation, and participatory action research.  

Liesl Muller

Liesl obtained an LLB and LLM from the University of Pretoria, and an LLM from the University of the Witwatersrand. Liesl has more than 10 years’ experience in human rights law practice and strategic litigation including children’s rights litigation.

Emily Murray

Emily completed her BMSc in Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences and Global Development Studies at Western University and her MSc in Global Health at McMaster University. Her research and education experiences are quite interdisciplinary, ranging from Indigenous-settler relations to ecological and emotional education. Her PhD research is focusing on children's rights and the right to a healthy environment. 

Dr. Florencia Paz Landeira

Florencia holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the National University of San Martín. Her university teaching and academic research focus on childhood policies and children's rights, especially within socio-environmental conflict contexts. 

Esther Montesinos Calvo-Fernández

Esther holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid, an M.A. in Geopolitics, Territory and Security from King’s College London, and a Master’s in EU Studies from the European Institute of Bilbao. Interested in social justice and human rights, her work experience spans academic, civil society, and EU institutional sectors, with a keen focus on promoting social inclusion, gender equality, migrants' rights, and youth engagement with politics.

Alicia O’Sullivan

Alicia is in her final year of her Undergraduate BCL Clinical Degree from UCC. She has a digital badge for Climate Law and Governance for Engaged Citizenship. She has been engaged in youth advocacy since she was 8 years old and was also previously Sustainability and Environmental Officer at UCC Student Union. Currently Alicia is one of Irelands UN Youth Delegates 2023/24. She has also annually been a guest lecturer at UCC for the Certificate in CPD Climate Crisis and Local Government. 

Katie Reid

Katie holds an MSc in Childhood Studies and an MA (with Honours) in Social Anthropology and Sustainable Development from the University of Edinburgh. She is a practitioner and researcher with a focus on child and youth participation in decision-making processes related to climate change, the environment and biodiversity. 

Lindie Van Rensburg

Lindie holds a Master of Arts in Development Studies from Nelson Mandela University in South Africa, where her research focused on the pro-environmental behaviour of millennials. She brings extensive experience in higher education, having worked on, and assisted with a variety of projects of various sizes.

Dr Rachel Hoare is a lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies in Trinity College where she is the Director of the Centre for Forced Migration Studies and has been actively involved for a number of years with University of Sanctuary activities, including most recently, organising volunteer-led English conversation classes for refugees. Rachel is also an expressive arts psychotherapist working on a part-time basis with unaccompanied refugee minors on behalf of Tusla, the Irish Child and Family agency. Rachel’s research focuses on trauma-informed practice, the impact of friendships on the coping and resilience of refugee youth as well as the benefits of expressive arts practice.

Pernilla Leviner is a Professor in public Law with specific focus on welfare law and child law. Since January 2024, she is Vice Dean for Education. As a researcher, she's connected to the Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child, Stockholm University, a research centre dealing with child law and children’s rights with a strong focus on interdisciplinary perspectives. She's the director and also a board member of this centre. The Centre has a book series, the Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights, published by Brill Nijhoff of which she's the General Editor. Pernilla is also the editor of Nordisk socialrättslig tidskrift – Nordic Journal of Social Welfare Law. 

Margherita Paola Poto (Prof. Dr., she/her/hers) is a Research Professor at the Faculty of Law, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and has taught Administrative Law for more than twenty years at the University of Turin, Italy. Her research and education foci are at the intersection of planetary health, emotional and ecological literacy, indigenous law and methodologies. She has a passion for the ocean and is committed to contributing to law through creativity and inclusivity. She is currently coordinating the ECO_CARE project, the The Ocean Incubator Network, and is part of the educational program Follow Your Heart.

Laura Wright, PhD, is a Lecturer in Childhood Studies, University of Edinburgh. Laura's research and practice over the last two decades has used play and arts-based participatory methods in partnership with children, youth, and adults to explore and engage in children's rights, meaningful participation, child protection, play, intergenerational partnerships, social justice, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in Canada, South and Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, East, West, and South Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. She is passionate about meaningful collaboration for positive change and is active on several global research projects (e.g. International Canadian and Children's Rights Research Partnership, Mobile Arts for Peace), networks (e.g. co-founded Arts Play Health Community), hubs (e.g. Co Lead Childhood and Youth Theme CAHSS), and committees globally.

Erin Daly is Professor of Law and Director of the Dignity Rights Clinic, Widener University Delaware Law School. She has written extensively about comparative and constitutional law and human rights, focusing on the ways in which the law could and should protect and promote the right of every person, everywhere to live with dignity. She is the author of Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions and the Worth of the Human Person (2013, 2020), and the co-author of Dignity Law: Global Recognition, Cases, and Perspectives (2020), a casebook and Teaching Manual. She was worked on dignity-related projects and lectured in the United States and around the world on issues from environmental and climate rights, to voting and democracy, among other things.

Dr. Yuchen Wang undertakes interdisciplinary research across themes of inclusive education, children and young people’s participation, educational technology, and sustainable development. She has led projects funded by the UK ESRC, NERC, and British Council. Her co-edited book ‘Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive Education: Speculative Futures and Emerging Practices’ won the 2020 Springer Nature New China Development Award, and she is also a key contributor to the 3^rd edition of Scotland’s ‘National Framework for Inclusion’.

Karabo Ozah is the Director at the Centre for Child and a Lecturer in the Department of Private Law of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The Centre for Child Law is an organisation that protects and promotes children’s rights through research, advocacy and strategic litigation.  

Helen Stalford is Professor of Law and founding member of the European Children’s Rights Unit at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on children’s experiences of and access to justice, particularly in a migration context, and she is particularly interested in how children understand and enforce their rights in everyday settings. She has led projects on behalf of a range of international, European and domestic agencies and her research is defined by its participatory methods that seek to bring children’s voices and perspectives to bear on decision-making.