Young Lives Presentation and Seminar


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Start date 02-07-2012
Start date 02-08-2012

Dear Friends,

I hope you can attend this invitation-only event on Wednesday, February 8. Our colleagues from University of Oxford will be in New York to discuss their groundbreaking Young Lives Project, a longitudinal study of 12,000 children from four developing countries over a period of 15 years. The study results have the potential to change fundamentally the way we develop and implement policy to tackle child poverty in the 21st century. For more details on the program, please see the attached agenda.

Alberto Minujin, Director

Equity for Children, Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy

invites you to a Roundtable discussion about The Young Lives Study:

“Tackling Child Poverty in the Twenty-first Century”

Wednesday 8 February 2012
4pm to 6:15pm
followed by refreshments

The New School, Bark Orientation Room 101 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011

SEATING IS LIMITED Please RSVP by February 1 to Beth Hill bethannhill1@juno.com

Biographies of speakers

Professor Jo Boyden, Director, Young Lives
Jo Boyden has been Director of Young Lives since 2005. She has a PhD in Anthropology and a BSc in Social Anthropology from the University of London. Her research has mainly focused on child labour, children and political violence, and childhood poverty – particularly in bringing together academics, practitioners and policymakers to develop effective models and methods for supporting children, their families and their communities in situations of adversity. Before joining Young Lives, Jo was Senior Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She has also worked for over 20 years as consultant on children’s issues to many governments and international and national organisations. Jo is President of the British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE) for 2011-12.

Paul Dornan, Senior Policy Officer, Young Lives
Paul Dornan is responsible for leading policy activity within Young Lives. His role is to work with researchers and policy staff across the study, and to engage with policy communities to develop the Young Lives evidence base and arguments in order to ensure these are relevant and effectively communicated to policymakers and policy audiences.

Andreas Georgiadis, Research Officer, Young Lives
Andreas Georgiadis is a Quantitative Research Officer, currently coordinating analysis of Round 3 survey data and starting preparation for Round 4 data collection. Andreas has a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he also worked as a Research Associate at the Judge Business School for two years. His research focuses on labour economics, applied micro-econometrics, personnel and organisation economics, and on the causes and consequences of child poverty. Before joining Young Lives in July 2010, Andreas was a Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE.

Professor Martin Woodhead, Associate Research Director
Martin Woodhead is Professor of Childhood Studies at The Open University and Associate Research Director of Young Lives. His main research relates to early childhood development, education and care, including theoretical and policy studies and extensive international work. He has also carried out research on child labour and children’s rights and was Special Advisor to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, in preparation of General Comment 7: Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood (2005). He pioneered interdisciplinary teaching in child research, notably through establishing Childhood and Youth Studies as an undergraduate degree at The Open University. He is co-editor of the journal Children & Society and a member of the Editorial Board for Childhood.

Isabel Ortiz
Isabel Ortiz is Associate Director at UNICEF. She has over 17 years experience working in more than 30 countries in various areas of economic and social development. She was educated in Spain and the UK, where she attained a Master and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Isabel Ortiz started as a lecturer and a researcher, but soon moved to development work. She has contributed not only to international agencies such as the EC and DFID, but also to civil society organizations, such as Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz's Initiative for Policy Dialogue. In recent years she worked at the Asian Development Bank (1995-2003) and at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (2005-2009).

Alberto Minujin, Director, Equity for Children
Born in Argentina, Alberto Minujin is professor at The New School University, New York, researching and teaching about child poverty reduction and equity, human rights, monitoring and evaluation, and social research methods. He is director of the Equity for Children Program and website integrated at The New School’s International Affairs Program. A UNICEF Senior Officer from 1990-2005 with expertise in North and South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Minujin is a mathematician with training in Applied Statistics and Demography. He has authored volumes including Global Child Poverty and Well-being: Measurement, concepts, policy and action (Policy Press, 2012), Child Poverty in East Asia and the Pacific: Deprivation and Disparities (UNICEF EAPRO, 2011), Social Protection Initiatives for Children, Women, and Families (The New School, 2008), The Middle Class: Seduced and Abandoned (EDHASA Pub Co., 2004), The New Poor (Ed Planeta, 1995). He was the editor of the 2009 Children, Youth and Environment special issue on The Everyday Environment Of Children’s Poverty.

Program Agenda, “Tackling Child Poverty in the Twenty-first Century”