Professor Laura Lundy
Director, Research Forum for the Child
Professor of Education
LL.B, LL.M, PhD, Barrister at Law
Room 104
69/71 University Street
School of Education
Queen’s University Belfast
Tel: 028 9097 5942
Fax: 028 9097 5066
Leadership Roles:
Director, Queen’s University Research Forum for the Child
Director, School of Education, Research Cluster on Children’s Rights and Participation in Education
Member , Management Committee of the Improving Children’s Lives Initiative
Teaching:
Children’s rights, Education and the Law (M level Module)
The International Human Right to Education (M Level Module)
Education Law (EdD Module)
Human Rights and Education (EdD Module)
Children’s Rights: Research and Practice (D.Child)
Research/Scholarship
Research/Scholarship Interests
Children’s rights, education law, children’s participation in research.
Recent research projects:
- Ready to Learn: Children’s Perspectives (2010), Barnardo’s, (Lundy, L (PI), McEvoy, L. And Byrne, B. (£27, 000)
- Attitudes of Parents and Pupils to Science Assessment (APPSA) (2009), The Wellcome Trust, (Murphy C (PI), Kerr, K, Lundy, L and McEvoy, L (£49, 000)
- Improving Children’s Lives (Atlantic Philanthropies and Queen’s University) with P. Connolly (PI) (et al) (£2.2 million) ( www.improvingchildrenslives.org )
- Ready to Learn: the Needs of Primary School Children in Disadvantaged Areas, Barnardo’s Northern Ireland (2007/2008) (with Allen, S. and Lundy, L. [Co-Principal Investigators], Maguire, L. and McEvoy, L.). (£89 000).
- “E-consultation with children: a pilot study’ (2006/7) DE/CCEA, Lundy, L and McEvoy, L.. (£16 000).
- Consulting Pupils on the Assessment of their Learning (CPAL). www.cpal.qub.ac.uk. (2005-2007) ESRC/TLRP, (Leitch; R(PI) , Lundy; L Gardner; J, Clough; P, Galanouli, D (with Odena, O and Mitchell, S J)) (£89, 000).
- Mainstreaming Section 75 in Schools Equality Commission (2005/6) (with Clough, P. Connolly, P, Elwood, J, Gallagher, T.) ( £25, 000)
- Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, ((2004-2005). (with Kilkelly, U., Kilpatrick, R., Lundy, L (PI), Scraton, P.) (£119, 000).
Publications:
I am the author of the key legal text on education law in Northern Ireland: Education: Law Policy and Practice in Northern Ireland, (SLS, Belfast, 2000).
Other recent publications include:
- Davey, C., and Lundy, L (2010) “Towards greater recognition of the right to play: reflections on Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child”, Children and Society (published on-line in advance of print).
- Lundy, L., and McEvoy, L. (2009) 1 “Developing outcomes for education services: a children’s rights-based approach”, Effective Education 43-60.
- Lundy, L., (2009) ‘Children, Religion and Rights in Northern Ireland, chapter in Fineman, M. and Worthington, K. (eds): Competing Paradigms of Rights and Responsibilities: Children in the Discourse of Religion and International Human Rights , (Aldershot: Ashgate).
- Lundy, L., (2007) 33(6) ‘Voice is not enough’: Conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’, British Education Research Journal, 927-942.
- Kilkelly, U. and Lundy, L (2007) ‘Children’s Rights in Action: using the Convention on the Rights of the Child as an auditing tool’, chapter in The UN Children’s Right Conventions: Theory Meets Practice (Intersentia, Antwerpen-Oxford). Pp.57-79.
- McEvoy L. and Lundy, L. (2007) E-consultation with pupils: a rights-based approach to the integration of citizenship education and ICT’, Technology, Pedagogy and Education , 16:3, 305 – 319
- McEvoy, L and Lundy, L., (2007) ‘Securing a Human Rights Culture through the Protection, Promotion and Fulfilment of Children’s Rights in School’ chapter in Anthony, G., McEvoy K., and Morison J., (eds), Judges, Transition and Human Rights, (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 495- 514.
- Leitch, R, Mitchell, S, Gardner, J, Odena, O, Lundy, L, Galanouli, D & Clough, P. (2007) Consulting pupils in ‘Assessment for Learning’ classrooms: The twists and turns of working with students as co-researchers. Educational Action Research . Vol. 15, No 3. September, 2007. pp459-488
- Kilkelly, U., and Lundy, L., (2006) 18(3) ‘The Convention on the Rights of the Child: its use as an auditing tool’, Child and Family Law Quarterly, 331-350.
- Lundy, L., Kilpatrick, R. (2006) 21(2) ‘The rights of children with special educational needs’, Support for Learning 57-64.
- Lundy, L., (2006) ‘The Legal Rights of Students in Northern Ireland’, chapter in Russo C., Stewart, D., DeGroof, J.,(ed) The Legal Rights of Students: International Perspectives on Demystifying the Legal Issues, (Rowman and Littlefield Education, 2006). 161-177
- Lundy, L., (2006) ‘Mainstreaming Children’s Rights in, to and through Education in a Society Emerging from Conflict’ (2006) 24, International Journal of Children’s Rights 339-362
- Lundy, L., (2005) ‘Family Values in the classroom: balancing parents’ wishes with children’s rights in state schools’, (2005) 3. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 1-27.
- Lundy, L., (2005) ‘Pupils and Health in International Human Rights Law’, chapter 1 in Harris, N. and Meredith, P. (eds), Children, Education and Health: International Perspectives on Law and Policy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005) . 3-28.
- Gallagher, AM and Lundy, L., (2005) ‘Religion, Education and the Law in Northern Ireland’, chapter in Martinez-Lopez J.L., and De Groof, J. (eds), Religion and Public Schools: European Comparisons (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005) 171-195.
- Lundy, L., (2005) ‘Human Rights and Pluralism in Education’, chapter 3 in Donnelly, C., Mc Keown, P., and Osborne, R. (eds), Pluralism and Devolution in Education , (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).25-36.