Children’s Rights
CERG has an overarching commitment to the use of social science research in helping to achieve a more just world for children.
Design: Programming & Evaluation
CERG has consulted on many design projects with children in mind, ranging from urban design, landscape architecture, architecture and product design for children’s safety.
Methodological Innovation
Based in our conviction of the importance of finding ways to listen to children we have been driven to develop new kinds of research tools.
Play
CERG has a particular concern with the improvements in the quality of play opportunities in cities.
Children, Nature & Sustainability
The issue of children’s accessibility to natural environments has always been a primary concern of CERG.
Community Development & Planning
CERG is committed to finding way to contribute to the development of more inclusive and participatory forms of democratic community governance.
Urban Poverty & Social-Environmental Justice
Our work in this area is related to our understanding of children’s development in relation to qualities of the physical environment.
Children’s Citizenship & Participation in Governance
From its inception CERG has taken every opportunity to create ways to involve children themselves in the process of research, planning and design of environment.
Ecological Study of Children’s Lives
We use the term “ecology” to refer broadly to the study of the relationship of children to their environment in all of its complexity, including the natural social, and built dimensions.
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