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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

Professor Richard C. Mitchell

Richard C.

Professor, Brock University, Ontario, Canada

Email: rmitchell@brocku.ca

Profile

Dr. Mitchell is a graduate of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and completed his Ph.D in Sociology and Social Policy with Scotland’s University of Stirling. His dissertation is entitled ‘The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Postmodernity: A Grounded Systemic Analysis of Children’s Rights Educational Policies in Scotland and Canada’. He has taught courses within childhood and youth studies, social work and qualitative research. In a previous career, Dr. Mitchell worked as a child and youth counselor in British Columbia education, mental health and specialized foster-care for two decades. His research and consultancy focus upon international and transdisciplinary approaches to implementing the human rights of children and young people within institutional and community-based settings.

Research

Publications

CV available on request

Expertise

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Transdisciplinarity; Qualitative Methodologies; Indigenous/Settler Methodologies
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