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UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Lawrence Aber on child development

Professor Aber, an internationally recognized scholar for his research on children and poverty, joined the Steinhardt faculty as Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy in 2004. His work, which centers on social, emotional, motivational, and behavioral development of high-risk children and youth, integrates basic and applied research with public policy.

Aber has examined the effects of family and neighborhood poverty, exposure to violence, abuse and neglect, and parental psychopathology on child and youth development.

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Amanda Third talks on indigenous communities online.

Associate Professor Amanda Third is Principal Research Fellow in Digital Social and Cultural Research in the Institute for Culture and Society. Her research focuses on the socio-cultural dimensions of young people's technology use, with particular emphases on children's rights in the digital age, the intergenerational dynamics shaping technology practice, and vulnerable young people's technological engagements.

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Dr. Perri Klass on pediatrics.

Perri Klass, MD has been writing as a medical journalist dating back to her years as a student at Harvard Medical School in the 1980s, when she published a series of essays, reflections on medical training, in the Hers column of The New York Times. Since that time she has published her medical journalism in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times Science Section, The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, Esquire, Parenting, and Vogue.

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Gerd Leonhard on children’s neuroscience.

Listed as one of the top 100 most influential people in Europe Gerd's Leonhard work focusses on the future of humanity and technology, digital ethics, artificial intelligence, future-leadership and communications. In his keynotes, presentations, workshops and advisory sessions Gerd addresses topics such as the what it means to be human in a world of machines and algorithms, the coming redefinition of human-machine relationships, the future of work and jobs and many more.

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Larry Wolff on the history of childhood.

Professor Wolff works on the history of Eastern Europe, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Enlightenment, and on the history of childhood. He tends to work as an intellectual and cultural historian. He has been most interested in problems concerning East and West within Europe: whether concerning the Vatican and Poland, Venice and the Slavs, or Vienna and Galicia.

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Kumi Naidoo on the environment and human rights.

Kumi Naidoo is a life-long social justice and environmental campaigner hailing from South Africa. Born in Durban in 1965, Kumi’s first taste of activism came at age 15 when he organised and took part in an anti-apartheid protest that saw him expelled from his school.

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Gerison Lansdown on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Gerison Lansdown is the founder director, 1992-2000, of the Children's RightsAlliance for England, and, over the past 16 years, has worked as an international children's rights consultant and advocate publishing and lecturing widely on the subject of children's rights.

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development Ian Goldin on a new children’s renaissance.

Professor Ian Goldin was the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School from September 2006 to September 2016. He is currently Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development, Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change and a Professorial Fellow at the University’s Balliol College.

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Sonia Livingston, Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, on the future of CRC and new parenting. 

UNICEF's 10-part special podcast series on "The Future of Childhood" - to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Dr Vikram Patel, a global expert on Mental Health, on the growing scale of the mental health crisis for children and adolescents.

Dr Patel is a professor at Harvard University and co-founder of Sangath Foundation in India.