About Us
The CCYT was established at the School of Liberal Studies (SoLS), BMU, in 2025. It is a one-of-a-kind centre that brings together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and activists who work with and study issues affecting children and youth in the Global South and beyond.
CCYT aims to fill the existing gap in teaching, research, and policy/ advocacy in the area of childhood and youth past, present, and future. Grounded in an interdisciplinary ethos, this Centre aims to identify key and emerging areas for research, plan and carry out teaching programmes through SoLS and engage with non-state and state actors in informing policy decisions and supporting advocacy programmes initiated by young people themselves or their allies.
Objectives:
- Identify, conduct research, and build an archive in key innovative and significant areas of research on childhood and youth in India and beyond.
- Invest in contributing to policy decisions related to young people, and support advocacy programmes of/for young people on key issues that affect their lives and futures. Bring children and youth into conversation with the Centre as experts and as key stakeholders.
- Build collaborations & partnerships with other collectives, NGOs, artists/ youth, research centres in India and abroad for research and to exchange learning.
Teaching
- Interdisciplinary Minor courses in ‘Childhood and Youth Studies’
- Understanding Childhood and Children’s Rights (Even Semester, 2025)
- Certificate courses for industry/ Practitioners: Child Rights, Youth Leadership, Child, Youth and Law
- Innovative Pedagogy (teach-in seminars; films & visual art; experiential learning; immersion and internships)
Collaborations and Research
- The Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC) is a network for scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of research on and with children and youth across South Asia and beyond.
- Hosted by the members, CCYSC Awaaz is a series of interviews and conversations with researchers and practitioners engaging with youth and childhood.
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