Book launch: Revisiting Childhood Resilience
Posted on 19th March, 2025
Join the the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and the Critical Childhood Studies Centre for the launch of new books, including Revisiting Childhood Resilience by Wendy Sims-Schouten on 1st April, 5-7pm.
This event is open to all, and will take place at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies. Tickets can be booked online at Eventbrite.
Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices: Perspectives from the past and present
Author: Wendy Sims-Schouten
Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices uses an interdisciplinary approach to challenge current childhood resilience research and practice. The culmination of ten years of research and publications around childhood resilience, the book draws upon data collected from and co-produced with children, young people and adults from marginalised, disadvantaged and displaced communities. In so doing, it highlights the transformative potential of stories told by marginalised and displaced children, past and present. When these narratives are prioritised, they disrupt, counter and draw critical attention to coping strategies in light of adversity and oppression, to inform creative research and policymaking. Centralising the voices of care leavers, young people who are bullied, members from minority ethnic communities and former migrants/refugees, among others, Wendy Sims-Schouten shines a light on 150 years of marginalised voices and experiences in relation to resilience.
Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices is published by UCL Press. Click here for more information.
This book launch is part of the Institute of Advanced Studies Book Launch Series and organised by the Critical Childhood Studies Centre. The Centre is a home for world-leading scholarship about childhood as a socio-political, cultural, and historical phenomenon in diverse global contexts. The Centre provides a focal point for faculty and students at all levels in UCL to engage in innovative and multi-disciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement geared towards achieving social justice with and for children and young people.