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Professor Heather Kathleen Manion

Heather Kathleen

Professor, Royal Roads University, Canada

Email: kathleen.manion@royalroads.ca

Profile

Kathleen Manion, BA, MA, LLM, PhD, is a Professor at Royal Roads University. With thirty years experience in research, social and community services and academia, Kathleen’s academic and practice interests focus on systems that support children to thrive. Using various research methodologies and community engagement processes, Kathleen has worked on projects related to child protection, child rights, homelessness, climate justice, early childhood development, service innovation, trafficking, violence against children and within families, youth justice, and child migration in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.

Research

Publications

Jones, S. & Manion, K., with Atuhura, D., Smith-Carrier, T., Green, S., Kakuru, D., Matovu, H., & Musoke, J. (forthcoming). At their own Pace: Feminist Participatory Action Research with Child-Mothers in Uganda. In The Palgrave Handbook on Participatory Action Research with Children. Palgrave.

Childs, E., Manion, K., & Axe, J. (forthcoming). Navigating troubled waters – a journey of evolving supported housing for youth at risk of homelessness. Housing and Society.

Atuhura, D., Manion, K., Kakuru, D., Smith-Carrier, T., Green, S., Jones, S., Matovu, H., & Musoke, J. (2025). The Shadow Pandemic of Adultified Adolescent Mothers in Uganda. Girlhood Studies, 18(2).

Jones, S. & Manion, K. (2025). Researching Children’s Rights Education in Uganda and Canada: Reflections on a Decolonizing, Participatory Action Research Design. Sage Research Methods Data and Scientific Literacy: Case Study.

Manion, K., Childs, E., & Axe, J. (2024). Relational Community-Based Individualized Support for Youth Who Have Experienced Homelessness: Removing Barriers to Independence Families in Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894241297858

Tahsini, I., Manion, K., Wright, L. (2024). Uncovering Social And Gender Norms that Perpetuate School-Related Gender-based Violence in Albania. Children & Society. DOI: 10.1111/chso.12861

Jones, S., & Manion, H.K. (2023). Critical literacy: An approach to child rights education in global contexts. Critical Literacy. DOI 10.1111/lit.12327. Literacy: 57(2) (wiley.com)

Jones, S., & Manion, H.K. (2023). Participatory, multimodal approaches to child rights education and empowerment in global contexts: A comparative case study in Uganda and Canada. Engaged Scholar, 9(2).
https://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/70812/54307

Manion, K., Wright, L.H.V., Currie, V., & Lee, L. (2023). Creative and Participatory Methods for Bolstering Violence Prevention with Young People in Schools in South East Europe through Shifting Social and Gender Norms, 9(2). New Questions of Children’s Rights in Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v9i2.1117

Smith-Carrier, T., & Manion, H.K. (2023). Leveraging the Courts for Climate and Social Justice: Moving Beyond Justiciability to Advance Substantive Human Rights. Human Rights Review, 23:551-574 DOI 10.1007/s12142-022-00674-0

Manion, K. (2022). Nudging Social Norms to Redress Peer-to-Peer Violence in Schools. In International Conference on Childhood and Adolescence E-Book, 2022, pp. 615-627, https://icca.eventqualiia.net/en/2022/home/call/conference-proceedings. Axe, J., Childs, E., & Manion, K. (2020). In Search of Employment: Tackling Youth Homelessness and Unemployment. Children and Youth Services Review, I113(2020).

Manion, H.K. (2022). Reconciling the Criticisms and Commendations in Children’s Rights Education. Odrowaz-Coates, A. (Ed). Social pedagogy for social inclusion and children’s rights discourses, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair Book Series.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367221782_Social_pedagogy_for_social_inclusion_and_children%27s_rights_discourses_Edited_by_Anna_Odrowaz-
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Manion, H.K., & Jones, S. (2020). Child Rights Education - Building Capabilities and Empowerment Through Social Constructivism. Canadian Journal of Child Rights, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2615

Expertise

Child rights education, child wellbeing
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