The Department of Child Sensitive Social Policies at the Women’s University in Africa [2] in collaboration with UNICEF Zimbabwe [3] hosted the inaugural Child Sensitive Social Policies Conference. The main conference theme ‘Towards a Child Sensitive Society on Africa’ sought to explore the centrality of children in African contexts. It offered a multiplicity of children’s rights stakeholders an opportunity to revisit the Universalist and Relativist debates on childhood, with a view to finding common ground between child’s rights principles and cultural norms still viewed at odds with each other.
PASCAL looks forward to further co-operation with the Women's University in Africa.
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Academic Networking at WUA
After spending an intersting and informative time participating in what as noted above was a very useful conference, i spent some time at the WUA (Women's University in Africa) meeting with staff and senior management in order to make some connections which will hopefully bear fruit in relation to shared interests and colaboratuions in both research and its dissemination.
I met with the Resarch Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Gender Development Studies and briefed them on some of the areas where there would appear to be obvious synergies between their research interests and those of myself and colleagues here at Glasgow. Theses include issues of community development; marginalisation and poverty reduction; social justice and empowerment; the role of education in adressing such issues and the impact of culture on questions of gender and childhood.
In addition, i have also had some queries from students hoping to undertake postgraduate opportunities here in Scotland and am putting them in touch with relevant sources of information regarding the possibilties of shcolarships and other funding sources.