BEd, PhD (University of Cambridge)

Judith Ennew graduated in 1973 at the University of Cambridge with a Batchelor of Education degree. After achieving a Certificate in Social Anthropology in the following year she worked towards a PhD in the same subject, which was awarded in 1978. After lecturing at the Universities of Cambridge and Essex in the 1980s, she was a Fellow and Graduate Tutor in Newnham College Cambridge from 1989-1990. From 1994 to 2000 she was an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmith's College, University of London.  Judith was a Senior Research Associate of the Center for Family Research, University of Cambridge from 1992 to 2007 and is currently a Research Associate of Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland.  She was elected to the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences in 2001.

Judith has been an activist and researcher in children's rights since 1979, specialising in issues concerning child workers, 'street children' and child sexual exploitation, with respect to both research and programme planning and working with international agencies in the field, such as UNICEF, World Health Organissation and the International Labour Organization, as well as international non governmental organizations.  She has worked in Latin America, Africa, South and South-East Asia and Eastern Europe on children's rights issues including, recently, the UN Secretary General's Global Study on Violence Against Children, and is currently largely-based in Bangkok working in Southeast and East Asian countries.

Key publications

The Sexual Exploitation of Children, Polity Press (1986, also published in USA by St Martin's Press; in French by Eschel, Paris; & in Japanese)

with B. Milne The Next Generation: Lives of Third World Children, Zed Press UK,New Society Press USA, also published as Kinder, die nicht Kind sein dürfen, Verlag Beck, Germany

 Childhood as a Social Phenomenon: Country Report, England and Wales Eurosocial Report 36/17, 1994.

Street and Working Children: a Guide to Planning, Save the Children (UK) Development Manual Series No 4, 1995, reprinted 2000 and translated into 10 languages

 'Outside Childhood: Street Children's Rights', in Franklin B., (ed.) Children's Rights: A Handbook of Comparative Policies and Practice,  Routledge

Introduction: Children out of place, in Connolly, M., & Ennew, J., (eds), Children out of place: special issue, Childhood 3(2).

(with Per Miljeteig), Indicators for children's rights: progress report on a project, in International Journal of Children's Rights, 4, 213-236.

 The child business: comments on the management of international policies for  children, in Journal of International Development, Vol 8 No 6, November-December 1996, 849-858.

 (with Jo Boyden) Children in Focus: manual on children-centred, participatory research, Radda Barnen, Stockholm, 1997.

Shame and physical pain: Cultural relativity, children, torture and punishment, in Van Bueren, G., (ed.), Childhood abused, Aldershot, Brookfield USA, Singapore, Sidney, Ashgate: Dartmouth. 1998

How can we define citizenship in childhood? Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working Paper Series Volume 10 Number 12, 2000.

'Why the Convention is not about street children', in Fottrell, D., (ed) Children's rights for the twenty-first century, Kluwer.

(With Jill Swart-Kruger).  Introduction: Homes, Places and Spaces in the Construction of Street Children and Street Youth, Children, Youth Environment 13 (2); Peer reviewed electronic journal http://cye.colorado.ed. 2003.

(with Dominique Pierre Plateau) How to research the physical and emotional punishment of children, Bangkok, Save the Children, 2004.

(with William E Myers and Dominique Pierre Plateau) 'Defining child labor as if human rights matter' Chapter 2  in Burns H. Weston (ed.) Human rights and child labour, Lynne Reiner Publishers.2005.

'Prisoners of childhood: Orphans and economic dependency' in Qvortrup, J. ed, Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, Agency and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Email: j.ennew@swansea.ac.uk