Who Are We?

Planning for the Asia-Pacific Childhoods Conference began in 2004, with a meeting of a preliminary Scientific Committee , hosted by the Department of Sociology and Asia Research Institute and Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis of the National University of Singapore. The Scientific Committee comprised international researchers in children and childhood, almost all of whom are either nationals of Asian countries or have research interests in the region.

At this meeting, entitled "The ethnography of childhood revisited", the Scientific Committee drew up a plan for the 2006 Conference, which has been implemented through a local Organizing Committee including representation from the main departments and institutes in the University.

Judith Ennew, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge

Roxana Waterson, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

Simon Avenell, Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, NUS

Gavin Jones, Professor, Research Leader, Asia Research Institute, NUS

Shirlena Huang, Head and Associate Professor, Department of Geography, NUS

Lai Ah Eng, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, NUS

Susan Rickard Liow, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work and Psychology, NUS

Thang Leng Leng, Associate Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, NUS

Joachim Theis, Project Officer - Youth and Partnership United Nations Children's Fund East Asia and Pacific Regional Office

Brenda Yeoh, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Principal Investigator Asian Metacentre, Asia Research Institute, NUS

Members of the Singapore Children's Society are observers on the Organizing Committee

Symposium 1 . The everyday lives of children in Asia Pacific Deepak Kumar Behera, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University

Symposium 2 . Children, citizenship and policy in Asia Pacific Sharon Bessell, Senior Lecturer, Policy and Governance Program, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University

Symposium 3 . Change and continuity in Asia-Pacific childhoods Roxana Waterson

Symposium 4 . Violence and children in Asia Pacific Rita Chung, Associate Professor, Counseling and Development Program, Graduate School of Education, George Mason University

Methods and ethics in research with children
Judith Ennew

Key issues in education in Asia Pacific
Judith Ennew

Ethnography of adolescence: Implications for HIV/AIDS programmes
Joachim Theis and Nwe Nwe Ay

Ethics, children and film
Roxana Waterson

The Conference will also host a business meeting of the Commission on Children, Youth and Childhood of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)

Financial support for the Asia-Pacific Childhoods Conference has been generously provided by the Asia Research Institute, Children's Geographies, Como Foundation, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Lee Foundation, Singapore, Oak Foundation, SEASREP Foundation, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, UNAIDS Regional Office, and the Wenner Gren Foundation.