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Harry Shier started his career in the 1970s, working on Adventure playgrounds in the UK. In 1993 in Melbourne, Australia, Harry discovered children’s rights at the “World Play Summit”. This experience changed the course of his life and ever since Shier has been committed to children’s rights as an underpinning framework and overarching approach to issues and concerns of matter.
Recent Publications
Research Partnerships with children. Presented at Child Health and Parenting (CHAP) Conference, Shaping the Future of Society, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 13 June 2022.
Five unwritten rules to avoid uncertainty in academic research… and why I detest them. Keynote at INTERWEAVING Conference, Moray House, University of Edinburgh, 13 May 2022.
Research ON children, ABOUT children, WITH children and BY children. Presented at ISPCAN webinar The Voice of the Child in Research and Policy, 06 April 2022.
Young People are Reshaping the Future. Keynote at Reshape our Future conference, Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (via Zoom), 11 August 2021. (There’s also a recorded version on YouTube here (starts 22 minutes in).)
Participatory Research with Children. Given as COVISION Webinar, UCD Dublin (via Zoom), 11 August 2021.