Education
Unique focus on young lives
Childhood poverty, learning and life transitions.
Since 2005, Martin Woodhead, Professor of Childhood Studies at the OU, has been a member of the senior research team of the international programme ‘Young Lives’, with responsibilities for child-focused and educational research components.
Young Lives is following the changing lives of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over 15 years. Two cohorts of children are being followed up in each country with three major survey rounds already completed and a further two planned. The study monitors ‘changing childhoods’ in the early 21st century and involves strong engagement with policy makers and planners concerned with children’s rights, education and child protection, both in the study countries and internationally.
It is a collaborative research project based at the University of Oxford with multiple international research partners, and £16 million funding from the UK Department for International Development.
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