TÜBİTAK Support for the project titled ‘Being a Child in the Era of Crises: Rethinking the Well-being of Children in Türkiye After the Pandemic’

The project titled ‘Being a Child in the Era of Crises: Rethinking the Well-being of Children in Türkiye After the Pandemic’ to which Prof. Pınar Uyan Semerci applied as coordinator, Prof. Emre Erdoğan and Başak Akkan as researchers, Project Team Manager from Center for Civil Society Studies Gözde Durmuş as researcher, and retired faculty member Prof. Safiye Serra Müderrisoğlu as advisor has been entitled to receive a budget of 1.111.850 TL for a period of 21 months as part of TÜBİTAK ARDEB 1001 program.

This project will investigate the well-being of children in the context of Türkiye within the axis of the atmosphere of uncertainty and technological changes created by the intersecting crises (economic, health-, migration-, climate-related) following COVID-19 pandemic. The research will be carried out with an interdisciplinary and participatory approach and closely examine the well-being of children in Türkiye within the political economy of the crises by bringing together different theoretical frameworks such as well-being of the child, bioecological model, and capabilities approach. In order to think about an ecosystem that will support the well-being of children in Türkiye together with children and relevant actors and propose social policy recommendations by revealing the inequalities and frailties created by the atmosphere of crisis, the project aims to carry out the entire process including the design of the research and the reporting of its findings in a participatory manner.