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This edited collection tells the story behind a ground-breaking Welsh law which reinforces the human rights of children and young people in Welsh devolved government, examines the impact of this law in selected policy areas and shows why the Welsh approach is attracting worldwide interest

1. The value and values of children's rights / Michael Freeman -- 2. Are children's rights still human? / Nigel Cantwell -- 3. Understanding a human rights based approach to matters involving children : conceptual foundations and strategic considerations / John Tobin -- 4. The CRC : dynamics and directions of monitoring and implementation / Jaap E. Doek -- 5. Acknowledging children as international citizens : a child-sensitive communication mechanism for the convention on the rights of the child / Geraldine Van Bueren -- 6. Has research improved the human rights of children or have the information needs of the CRC improved data about children? / Judith Ennew -- 7. How are the human rights of children related to research methodology? / Harriot Beazley. [et al.] -- 8. Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child in law and policy : two ways to improve / Ursula Kilkelly -- 9. Using the CRC to inform EU law and policy-making / Helen Stalford and Eleanor Drywood -- 10. The roles of independent human rights institutions in implementing the CRC / Brian Gran -- 11. Multi-level governance and CRC implementation / Jane Williams -- 12. Human rights and child poverty in the UK : time for change / Rhian Croke and Anne Crowley -- 13. An exploration of the discrimination-rights dynamic in relation to children / Elspeth Webb -- 14. Child health equity : from theory to reality / Jeffrey Goldhagen and Raul Mercer -- 15. Our rights, our story : Funky Dragon's report to the United Nations Committee on the rights of the child / Funky Dragon.

Offering a critical and contemporary approach to the central debates surrounding children's citizenship, the authors make explicit the connections between theoretical approaches, legal instruments, policy implementation, the experiences of children themselves, and the practice of professionals who work with them

This volume provides a series of critical analyses of some of the contemporary debates in relation to the human rights of children, resituating them within visions which informed the text of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. The studies embrace examination of some of today's widespread interpretations of the CRC, analysis of what is implied by a human rights-based approach in research and advocacy and consideration of advances and barriers to research and to several aspects of CRC implementation. With contributions by leading experts in the field, the book examines the CRC as an international instrument, its inherent dilemmas and some of the debates generated by the challenges of implementation. It embraces examinations of different levels of governance from the international to the state party, regional and local levels, including institutional developments and changes in law, policy and practice. The book will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and policy-makers working in the area of children's rights and welfare.

This paper aims to interrogate the potential and challenges in interdisciplinary working across disciplinary boundaries by examining a longitudinal partnership designed to research student experiences of digital technologies in undergraduate medicine established by the two authors (one from Education, the other Medical Education). The paper is situated in current methodological trends including the changing value of replicability and evidence based methods and increases in qualitative and mixed methods studies in Medical Education, whilst education research has seen growing encouragement for randomised controlled trials and large-scale quantitative studies. A critical analysis of the partnership interactions is framed by Holland's positional and imagined identities, negotiated across 'figured' worlds and the concept of epistemic games that guide knowledge construction. We consider social, political and cultural challenges and how 'in between' sites of knowledge were established where the academic identity of each was shaped by engaging with the other and new theoretical, methodological and ethical understandings were co-constructed. The paper concludes that despite the on-going challenges, 'bottom up' partnerships can contribute to a growth in interdisciplinarity which might itself be understood as a boundary object. Interdisciplinarity necessitates improvisation and boundary crossing and can therefore always be considered a matter of negotiation, creativity and collaboration.

Background:Organised cervical screening programmes are a combination of arrangements designed to maximise benefit and minimise harm associated with cervical cancer at the population level. Many organised programmes are described as 'evidence-based', reflecting an expectation that healthcare should be based on the tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). EBM is both normalised and contested.
Aims and objectives:As part of a larger study of how cervical screening came to be the way it is, we conducted a grounded theory study of cervical screening experts' perspectives on evidence and its use in guideline development processes.
Methods:We sampled from several countries and across a range of professional backgrounds. Analysis was developed through transcript coding and memo writing, using constant comparison to develop insight and connections between concepts.
Findings:We found that the 'evidence-based' descriptor was used rhetorically to indicate scientific trustworthiness; in short 'evidence-based' indicated 'good'. Experts held ideal conceptions of evidence and its use as objective and value-free, yet reported experiences that suggested those ideals were unattainable in practice. The 'evidence-based' ideal included restricting what counts as evidence to matters of science and epidemiology. This produced pronounced attention to matters of efficacy and effectiveness of cervical screening tests, and neglected decisions relating to the other arrangements that combine to produce an organised screening programme.
Discussion and conclusions:Rhetorical use of the 'evidence-based brand' appeals to a particular kind of authority: one which is difficult to achieve in practice, and belies the variety of information that is required and the socially negotiated nature of policy and programme decisions.