Harry Shier
@harryshier.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, facilitator, commentator on child rights, participation and play. Associate of CESESMA in Nicaragua. Based in Ireland. Retired/freelance
New CARN Bulletin just out at www.carn.org.uk/resources/ca.... It’s based on the proceedings of the Community Action Research Network's 2024 Malmö conference, and includes my keynote “PAR WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE: TACKLING CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVING TRANSFORMATIONS”. Also at www.harryshier.net
September 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New CARN Bulletin just out at www.carn.org.uk/resources/ca.... It’s based on the proceedings of the Community Action Research Network's 2024 Malmö conference, and includes my keynote “PAR WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE: TACKLING CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVING TRANSFORMATIONS”. Also at www.harryshier.net
Taking time off, and what better way to enjoy my 71st birthday than chilling with my lovely family on Halki Island in the sunny Agean Sea.
August 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Taking time off, and what better way to enjoy my 71st birthday than chilling with my lovely family on Halki Island in the sunny Agean Sea.
Passing by Muizenberg Beach, one of SA's top surfing spots, I was astonished to learn that Agatha Christie used to go surfing here in the 1920s. Not only an early champion of women's surfing but believed to be the first European woman to stand up on a surfboard www.agathachristie.com/en/news/2021...
August 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Passing by Muizenberg Beach, one of SA's top surfing spots, I was astonished to learn that Agatha Christie used to go surfing here in the 1920s. Not only an early champion of women's surfing but believed to be the first European woman to stand up on a surfboard www.agathachristie.com/en/news/2021...
I rarely post non-work-related stuff here, but just want to share these winter flowers seen on top of Table Mountain on Wednesday.
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I rarely post non-work-related stuff here, but just want to share these winter flowers seen on top of Table Mountain on Wednesday.
Browsing in the library here at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, it was nice to come across some good friends from the old days...
August 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Browsing in the library here at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, it was nice to come across some good friends from the old days...
Inspiring workshop yesterday with pre-school and primary teachers in Cape Town, co-creating from the ground up a new South African framework for participation rights in early years care and education. No outputs to share yet, but things are moving and we hope to have interesting ideas to share soon.
August 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Inspiring workshop yesterday with pre-school and primary teachers in Cape Town, co-creating from the ground up a new South African framework for participation rights in early years care and education. No outputs to share yet, but things are moving and we hope to have interesting ideas to share soon.
Meet my wonderful hosts at CPUT: Head of Teacher Professional Development, Dr Zena Scholtz; Head of Foundation Phase, Dr Naseema Shaik; me; Dean of Education, Professor Andile Mji; Asst. Dean, Dr Martin Combrinck. Warmest thanks for your hospitality, and especially Dr Shaik for steering the project.
July 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Meet my wonderful hosts at CPUT: Head of Teacher Professional Development, Dr Zena Scholtz; Head of Foundation Phase, Dr Naseema Shaik; me; Dean of Education, Professor Andile Mji; Asst. Dean, Dr Martin Combrinck. Warmest thanks for your hospitality, and especially Dr Shaik for steering the project.
Greetings from sunny Cape Town. Here I am at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (www.cput.ac.za/academic/fac...), working on a collaborative project to develop a new South African framework for participation rights in early childhood education. #ChildParticipation #EducationRights
July 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Greetings from sunny Cape Town. Here I am at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (www.cput.ac.za/academic/fac...), working on a collaborative project to develop a new South African framework for participation rights in early childhood education. #ChildParticipation #EducationRights
Children’s Advisory Team from the Museum of Childhood Ireland (@museumofchildhood.bsky.social) has a new blog post on the museum’s website about their meeting at the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman (www.oco.ie) in Dublin last week. museumofchildhood.ie/our-third-li... #ChildParticipation
July 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Children’s Advisory Team from the Museum of Childhood Ireland (@museumofchildhood.bsky.social) has a new blog post on the museum’s website about their meeting at the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman (www.oco.ie) in Dublin last week. museumofchildhood.ie/our-third-li... #ChildParticipation
Great to see Shier’s “Pathways to Participation” published in Hungarian for the first time. From Németh, B., & Miklósi, M. (2025). A gyermekrészvétel konceptuális modelljei. Socio.Hu Társadalomtudományi Szemle, 15(1), 31–54. doi.org/10.18030/soc...
June 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Great to see Shier’s “Pathways to Participation” published in Hungarian for the first time. From Németh, B., & Miklósi, M. (2025). A gyermekrészvétel konceptuális modelljei. Socio.Hu Társadalomtudományi Szemle, 15(1), 31–54. doi.org/10.18030/soc...
Clear practical guidance for collaborative researchers working with CYP, the toolkit “ETHICAL COLLABORATION WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN RESEARCH” by www.dcu.ie/ppi in collaboration with barretstown.org and www.tusla.ie is now at ppinetwork.ie/resource/eth.... Glad I could help. #childresearch
April 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Clear practical guidance for collaborative researchers working with CYP, the toolkit “ETHICAL COLLABORATION WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN RESEARCH” by www.dcu.ie/ppi in collaboration with barretstown.org and www.tusla.ie is now at ppinetwork.ie/resource/eth.... Glad I could help. #childresearch
For years it's been my proud boast to be the author of the world’s most cited journal article on child participation scholar.google.com/citations?us.... But no longer. According to Google Scholar today, Shier’s “Pathways" has 2899 citations, Lundy’s “Voice...” 2918. A worthy successor to the record.
April 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
For years it's been my proud boast to be the author of the world’s most cited journal article on child participation scholar.google.com/citations?us.... But no longer. According to Google Scholar today, Shier’s “Pathways" has 2899 citations, Lundy’s “Voice...” 2918. A worthy successor to the record.
With Mimi Petersen + global colleagues, we have a new paper OPEN ACCESS in EJSW: "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION IN CHILD PROTECTION: OUTCOMES OF TRANSFORMATIVE PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS" doi.org/10.1080/1369.... Also www.harryshier.net #ChildParticipation
#childprotection
#childprotection
April 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
With Mimi Petersen + global colleagues, we have a new paper OPEN ACCESS in EJSW: "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION IN CHILD PROTECTION: OUTCOMES OF TRANSFORMATIVE PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS" doi.org/10.1080/1369.... Also www.harryshier.net #ChildParticipation
#childprotection
#childprotection
Gerison as always so incisive and insightful - a pleasure to listen. A useful learning point for me was her analysis of the strong commitment of the UNCRC to family and parents, which is so often denied. H
March 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Gerison as always so incisive and insightful - a pleasure to listen. A useful learning point for me was her analysis of the strong commitment of the UNCRC to family and parents, which is so often denied. H
PROTECTING CHILDREN: WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP ACROSS CHILDREN’S SERVICES is a pan-European report just out from @ESNsocial building on last year’s Bucharest seminar. www.esn-eu.org/publications... Pathways to Participation is on p35. My seminar presentation is at www.harryshier.net/powerpoints....
March 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
PROTECTING CHILDREN: WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP ACROSS CHILDREN’S SERVICES is a pan-European report just out from @ESNsocial building on last year’s Bucharest seminar. www.esn-eu.org/publications... Pathways to Participation is on p35. My seminar presentation is at www.harryshier.net/powerpoints....
Though retired from regular employment, I'm still available to take on short-term projects and consultancy work, particularly in children’s rights, children’s play, child and youth participation and activism. More info attached here, or drop me an email. www.harryshier.net Please repost #ChildRights
March 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Though retired from regular employment, I'm still available to take on short-term projects and consultancy work, particularly in children’s rights, children’s play, child and youth participation and activism. More info attached here, or drop me an email. www.harryshier.net Please repost #ChildRights
Though retired from regular employment, I'm still available to take on short-term projects and consultancy work, particularly in the areas of children’s rights, children’s play, child and youth participation and activism. More info attached here, or drop me an email. www.harryshier.net
March 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Though retired from regular employment, I'm still available to take on short-term projects and consultancy work, particularly in the areas of children’s rights, children’s play, child and youth participation and activism. More info attached here, or drop me an email. www.harryshier.net
With the All Ireland Rare Diseases Research Network (RAiN) at www.oco.ie to launch a video conceived and created by the RAiN CRAG (Children’s Research Advisory Group www.rainrareresearch.org/rain-crag) to help CYP understand lives lived with rare diseases. Watch at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og3G...
February 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
With the All Ireland Rare Diseases Research Network (RAiN) at www.oco.ie to launch a video conceived and created by the RAiN CRAG (Children’s Research Advisory Group www.rainrareresearch.org/rain-crag) to help CYP understand lives lived with rare diseases. Watch at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og3G...
Great to see this open access in BJSW (academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance...). Using Shier’s analytical tool (not Pathways, the newer one on partnering children in research: www.harryshier.net#Analyticaltool), quantitative method shows social work researchers using only 5% of potential to engage with CYP
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Great to see this open access in BJSW (academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance...). Using Shier’s analytical tool (not Pathways, the newer one on partnering children in research: www.harryshier.net#Analyticaltool), quantitative method shows social work researchers using only 5% of potential to engage with CYP
Honoured to be back at Barretstown on the expert panel for launch of new toolkit “Ethical Collaboration with Children and Young People in Research” by @PPI_Ignite_DCU in collaboration with @Barretstown and @tusla. It is indeed a valuable resource and I can't wait for final version to appear online.
February 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Honoured to be back at Barretstown on the expert panel for launch of new toolkit “Ethical Collaboration with Children and Young People in Research” by @PPI_Ignite_DCU in collaboration with @Barretstown and @tusla. It is indeed a valuable resource and I can't wait for final version to appear online.
Wonderful to find many trusted colleagues on Bluesky. Hi to @wendyrussell (.bsky.social), @arthurisaac04, @lauralundy, @lucybray9, @mlcorr, @drtyrie, @jessicaktaft, @erikafjimenez, @jkgillettswan, @louca-mai, @drdavemcp, @westrayalison, @profbronaghbyrne, + more every day. Happily saying byebye to X
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Wonderful to find many trusted colleagues on Bluesky. Hi to @wendyrussell (.bsky.social), @arthurisaac04, @lauralundy, @lucybray9, @mlcorr, @drtyrie, @jessicaktaft, @erikafjimenez, @jkgillettswan, @louca-mai, @drdavemcp, @westrayalison, @profbronaghbyrne, + more every day. Happily saying byebye to X
My presentation on researching poverty with children from the seminar “Why do we need a child-led measure of poverty?” at QUB Ctr for Children’s Rights qub.ac.uk/research-cen... on 11 Dec now at harryshier.net/powerpoints.... [phased move from TAFKAT (The App Formerly Known As Twitter) in progress]
January 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
My presentation on researching poverty with children from the seminar “Why do we need a child-led measure of poverty?” at QUB Ctr for Children’s Rights qub.ac.uk/research-cen... on 11 Dec now at harryshier.net/powerpoints.... [phased move from TAFKAT (The App Formerly Known As Twitter) in progress]