Dr Giuliana Fenech from the University’s Department of English within the Faculty of Arts, attended the Child and Book Conference in Rouen, France, whereby she spoke about her research on children’s literature.
The theme of the conference this year was ‘Making, Building, Mending: Creativity and Craftsmanship in Children's Literature and Culture’.
Dr Fenech is the Principal Investigator for the ‘Seen and Heard’ Initiative, a collaboration between a number of countries advocating for young people’s voices and freedom of expression.
The Seen and Heard academic team is adopting a mixed-method study in which quantitative and qualitative data are collected simultaneously in Malta, Wroclaw and Berlin, to establish young people’s understanding and experience of freedom of expression, in Europe.
The following areas are being explored:
- human rights education as a method of promoting youth participatory citizenship
- artography as a method of understanding protest and freedom of expression to
- methodology based on care and intergenerational solidarity
- co-curating protest with young people transmedially and cross-sectorally.
Through its Department of English, the University of Malta is a lead partner in this initiative.