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Amy Hanna

@amyhanna.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Children’s Studies, University of Galway Children’s Rights | Participation | Silence

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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Knowing what your rights are is not the same as understanding and being able to claim them. Some interesting findings when looking at children’s rights through a governance lens bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Really interesting report about how “no nonsense” behaviour policies discriminate against children with additional needs. www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The follow up article for this project funded by AsIAm (Ireland’s Autism Charity) - a systematic review of human rights tensions and conflicts regarding school discipline - is now published in IJEDRO. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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When school discipline meets children’s rights: A systematic literature review of tensions and conflicts in the international literature
In complex spaces such as schools, it is easy to see how children’s enjoyment of their rights may create rights conflicts where individual rights are …
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Ever pondered how, or even if, school discipline policies can be #childrights compliant? I took a closer look at the situation for Autistic students in the Irish education context, generously funded by AsIAm. Check out the article here: academic.oup.com/jhrp/article...
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The Administration of School Discipline in a Manner Consistent With Children’s Human Rights: A Rights-Based Analysis of School Codes of Behaviour in Ireland for Autistic Students
Abstract. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) obliges States Parties to administer school discipline consistently with children’
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Bede Sheppard @bedeonkidrights.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New editorial from @jtodres.bsky.social explains the need for, and implications of, the proposed new optional protocol to the CRC on the right to education. He also poses important questions for #ChildRights scholars & researchers. In the Int'l Journal of Children's Rights: brill.com/view/journal...
A preschool playground covered in snow.
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Dr Keren MacLennan @kerenmaclennan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Our brand new paper, led by our incredible PhD student Emmie, has just been published: 'Neuro-Normative Epistemic Injustice – Consequences for the UK Education Crisis and School Anxiety'. @bathcaar.bsky.social @psychologybath.bsky.social @uniofbath.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Neuro-Normative Epistemic Injustice – Consequences for the UK Education Crisis and School Anxiety - Emmie Fisher, Keren MacLennan, Sinéad Mullally, Jacqui Rodgers, 2025
The UK education system is failing to meet needs, leading to an attendance and school anxiety crisis. However, the system faults those disproportionately and mo...
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is my sister. Really horrible to see her with a bruised face when she was protecting the public. Needless to say she was always much braver than me 😜 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
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Officer recalls being knocked unconscious as she restrained man in west Belfast
A police officer has recalled being punched so hard to the head that she lost consciousness at an event in west Belfast.
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This has absolutely made my week 🦷 #ToothFairy
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Suzanne Egan @suzanneegan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I am absolutely delighted to share that my article on Tackling Ignorance about Law in Human Rights Education has just been published open access @berj-2025.bsky.social. Looking forward to feedback 🙏 bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YEVSTX...
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Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education
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ARK @ark-ni.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🔔New ARK Research Update🔔 The latest Research Update explores understandings, perceptions and feelings of respect in Northern Ireland Read here ➡️ www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/de... @siobhanmc74.bsky.social @profbronaghbyrne.bsky.social @mlcorr.bsky.social @amyhanna.bsky.social @gailneill.bsky.social
ARK Research Update on Respect in Northern Ireland. Graphic with ARK logo, Research Update title and authors' names.
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Prof Gráinne McKeever @mckeevergrainne.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A new PhD opportunity just landed with our good friends @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social who we've been working with alongside @savethechildrenni.bsky.social to understand the impact of #SocialSecurity on children's experiences of poverty. It's time to hear from children themselves: t.co/BtYhyM91Ms
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Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights) @together-sacr.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
ICYMI! The first legal case under the UNCRC Act has been decided! The High Court in Edinburgh ruled that the Lord Advocate’s power to prosecute children falls within the scope of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 Read our article here: www.togetherscotland.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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First legal case decided under UNCRC Act
Together is an alliance of Scottish children's charities that works to improve the awareness, understanding and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). We ...
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
What a monumental loss to poetry and the arts 💚 www.rte.ie/news/2025/01...
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Irish poet Michael Longley dies aged 85
The acclaimed Irish poet was born in Belfast in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death.
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A fantastic paper on children’s rights and early years in Rwanda. Not everyday we put ‘human rights’ and ‘emotions’ in the same sentence! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Emotions and human rights education in early childhood: insights from young children in Rwanda
Human rights education in early childhood should be relevant to children’s experiences, however there is a tendency to avoid the subject. This paper draws from a participatory study undertaken in R...
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Slightly nervous about publicising my adventures into the poetry of our national treasure during summer 2024, but this is a paper I really enjoyed writing jsse.ascee.org/index.php/js...
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‘Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences’: a conceptual framework for silence as a medium for power in the Arts | Hanna | Journal of Silence Studies in Education
‘Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences’: a conceptual framework for silence as a medium for power in the Arts
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 08/12/2024
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Boys will be boys: why gender attitudes of today’s schoolchildren are remarkably traditional
Pupils associate being a ‘good’ girl with niceness and politeness, while ‘good’ boys are strong and excel at football
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Siobhan McAlister @siobhanmc74.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Launch of important youth developed resource on how professionals can engage with children and young people who experience domestic abuse @womensaidni.bsky.social #16daysofactivism
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Centre for Children's Rights, QUB @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We are looking forward to engaging with everyone on all things #ChildrensRights here. Check out our webpage and courses here www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
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Centre for Children's Rights | Queen's University Belfast
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Tackling the myth, with young activists, that children are not representative - new open access article brill.com/view/journal...
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
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Amy Hanna @amyhanna.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
A privilege to present research examining the rights compliance of Irish codes of behaviour at AsIAm: Irelands Autism Charity today in Dublin. Full report available here: asiam.ie/news/asiam-p...
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As I Am | News | AsIAm publishes report on discriminatory codes of behaviour towards Autistic school children
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