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Kirrily Pells

@kirrilypells.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Childhood, UCL. Child Rights | Childhood | Memory | Violence Against Children | Rwanda www.nkwihoreze.org

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Kristyna Skriczka @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congrats to @kirrilypells.bsky.social and wider @ucl.ac.uk team on a great press coverage about their research on physical punishment of children. Their research briefing is available here www.ucl.ac.uk/population-h... BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Guardian: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Kirrily Pells @kirrilypells.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Call for Papers: #Children #Memory work and Generational Relations in Global Contexts Special issue of Childhood. Abstracts due 1st June 2026 For call details: bit.ly/4dUvVi9 Please share widely!
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Kirrily Pells @kirrilypells.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Call for Papers: #Children #Memory work and Generational Relations in Global Contexts Special issue of Childhood. Abstracts due 1st June 2026 For call details: bit.ly/4dUvVi9 Please share widely!
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A new Knowledge Exchange project funded by UCL's Innovation Fund, building on Rwanda’s Nkwihoreze approach @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social & @kirrilypells.bsky.social, together with global partners, will co-create a new tool. More at: www.nkwihoreze.org/artease #ArtEaseResilience #nkwihorezeproject
A logo that reads "ArtEase: arts for resilience", words are in dark blue, look like painted by a brush on orange/yellow watercolour backdrop surrounded by white.
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Kristyna Skriczka @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@sriucl.bsky.social Just made a video to help promote an important resource, result of creative collaboration between Karen Schucan Bird @sriucl.bsky.social, two artists and victim-survivors of domestic abuse. Download the Time for Tea Zine now at: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... #DomesticAbuse
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Kristyna Skriczka @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🎨 Join us for “Arts for Resilience” – creative tools for intergenerational work with vulnerable children and families 🗓️ Thursday 13 Nov 13:00–14:30 GMT, Free with registration www.changemakersforchildren.community/arts-for-res... #Intergenerational #nkwihorezeproject #trauma @sriucl.bsky.social
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Kirrily Pells @kirrilypells.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Corporal punishment carries ‘multiple risks’ to children’s health, says WHO www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Corporal punishment carries ‘multiple risks’ to children’s health, says WHO
An estimated 1.2bn children are subject to this ‘harmful practice’ each year, affecting physical and mental wellbeing, report finds
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Kirrily Pells @kirrilypells.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
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Will Wilson @2wsphotography.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
📣 Book Launch Announcement! 🐦📘 I’m thrilled to announce the release of my second book — Following the Birds of Rwanda — a photographic celebration of Rwanda’s vibrant birdlife and their fascinating behaviours. 📍 Available in shops across Kigali and online via Komezart from 1st July. #Birds 🪶
Front cover of my second book - Following the Birds of Rwanda - a Rwenzori Turaco in flight.

📣 Book Launch Announcement! 🐦📘

I’m thrilled to announce the release of my second book — Following the Birds of Rwanda — a photographic celebration of Rwanda’s vibrant birdlife and their fascinating behaviours.

This coffee table-style book is a visual journey through forests, wetlands, and skies, capturing the moments that make Rwanda an avian paradise.

📍 Available in shops across Kigali and online via Komezart from 1st July.

Whether you’re a nature lover, photographer, or simply appreciate the beauty of wildlife, this book is for you. Thank you for supporting local art, nature, and storytelling!
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
☑️Early childhood educators are invited to check out this article by @carmelward.bsky.social @queensuniv.bsky.social ☑️research explores how insights from young children can contribute to a #pedagogy of #HumanRights ☑️ #OpenAccess - free to download! 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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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Our response to this government white paper on immigration
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
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UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What does it mean to listen to children's stories, narratives and ideas? Come along to this double book launch on 1 April with IOE authors and explore children's perspectives of school and their practical suggestions to strengthen wellbeing and learning within schooling. bit.ly/4hTxRWn
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IAS Book Launch: Children's Life-Histories | Revisiting Childhood
Join the the IAS and the Critical Childhood Studies Centre in welcoming authors Eleanore Hargreaves, Denise Buchanan, Laura Quick and Wendy Sims-Schouten for this joint book launch.
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Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) @rcpch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This month marks the third anniversary of the removal of the defence of physical punishment of children coming into force in Wales. Great to see Senedd members encouraging the UK Government to follow the lead set by Wales and Scotland to #EndPhysicalPunishment ⬇️
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Since Labour took office, 10,000 more children have been plunged into poverty by the refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Increasing military spending while millions of children go hungry is not a tough decision. It’s the wrong decision.
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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A statement from our CEO Moazzam Malik on the news that the government is cutting the UK aid budget to fund an increase in defence spending:
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Sarah Eisen @saraheisen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Aegis Project is advertising a Research Assistant post! Join our exciting project working directly with children and young people seeking asylum - and make a real difference #Respond. @lshtm DM for info! rebrand.ly/7ut2i85
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Current vacancies : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Prof Laura Lundy @lauralundy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Marking the 100th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child with some reflections on the child’s right to participation.
An image of a kaleidoscope and text saying it’s not the gift of adults. It’s the right of the child
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Prof Laura Lundy @lauralundy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Seems like a good first post here… 😊 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-conver...
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Big conversations, little people: raising ‘woke’ kids
How do we navigate those difficult conversations about the big issues in the world with the little folks in our lives?
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