Rachel Rosen and Mai Abu Moghli

Rachel Rosen's research focuses on marginalized children and families, especially those with precarious immigration status; the intersection of neoliberal welfare and border regimes which shape their lives; and their practices of sustenance, care, social reproduction, and solidarity. My research, teaching, and public engagement is located at the intersections of sociology of childhood and materialist feminist thought. Methodologically, I am interested in the ethics and politics of ethnography and participatory research with children and other marginalized social groups. I am committed to change-orientated research for social justice, and co-design and collaborative knowledge production lie at the heart of my approach. I sat on the Faculty Ethics Committee from 2014-2021 and have worked with migrants’ rights organizations in Canada and the UK since the 1990s, including as a community researcher. I am the director of the Critical Childhood Studies Center (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/critical-childhood-studies-centre) and a member of the editorial board of the journals Childhood, Children's Geographies, and Sociedad e Infancias) Mai Abu Moghli is an Assistant Professor at the Human Rights Program of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Her main fields of specialization include critical human rights and critical development studies, comparative and international education and education in emergencies and refugee studies with a focus on the Arabic speaking countries. Dr. Abu Moghli is a member of several regional academic bodies and networks such as the Palestine Policy Network (Al Shabka) and The Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). Her current research focuses on Academic freedoms in higher education institutions globally, decolonizing higher education, and critical research ethics. Dr. Abu Moghli has published numerous op-eds in policy journals, media outlets, and academic blogs targeting a broader audience, including in the Nation, NORRAG and INEE, MERIP , Al Shabaka, and the New Arab . She is featured in a number of podcasts: FreshEd and Taqarob