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Biography
Helen is Professor of Childhood Studies and Director of Research in the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield. Her research is focused on understanding the everyday lives of children and the development of methods to enable children’s participation in research. Helen’s publications bring together her interests in creative visual methods, visual culture and research ethics.
Helen leads a European project on children’s digital citizenship. ‘Cyber Safe Generation: Digital education by design’ (CyGen) is a 3 year collaboration with partner institutions in Denmark, Belgium & Greece. The project works with children, teachers and parents to co-design and co-produce educational resources to support children’s digital literacy and is funded as part of Erasmus+ Key Action 2 for Higher Education.
Helen is also co-investigator and social science lead on a multidisciplinary project on pollinator habitats exploring landscape preferences, connectedness and wellbeing using novel digital visual methods. Funded by RCUK as part of its Global Food Security programme and led by the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research at the University of Reading with partners at the Universities of Northampton and Lund, the research aims to identify the impacts of climate and land use changes on pollinating insects in order to increase resilience and sustainability of the UK food system.
Helen is research lead for ‘Corona Chronicles - Children researching their everyday lives, education and relationships during the coronavirus pandemic (CHEER).’ This research explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the everyday lives, education and relationships of primary school children aged 9-11 (UK school years 5 to 6). Watch the two-minute video here https://huddersfield.app.box.com/file/690714388254
Helen currently supervises PhD students on topics including digital literacy, parenting, poverty and social exclusion. She leads postgraduate modules on data collection and analysis and has developed international postgraduate training in creative and visual methods and research ethics (funded by the ESRC).
Her undergraduate teaching includes lectures on: Interpreting childhood; Researching ethically with children, Childhood wellbeing and the social determinants of health.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Visiting Professor, University of Northampton
2017 → …
Convenor - Visual sociology study group, The British Sociological Association
2015 → …
Peer review college, Economic & Social Research Council
2010 → …
Research Expertise and Interests
- Moral Philosophy
- Pandemics
- Experience
- Methodology
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Projects
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Developing arts-Based methods of Knowledge generation and exchange with children during times of global crisis ( BaCK CHAT)
1/04/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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Back Chat: A zine created with children aged 11-12 about their lives during the coronavirus pandemic and the period after, told though their images and words
Lomax, H. & Smith, K., 1 Jul 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Creating online participatory research spaces: insights from creative, digitally-mediated research with children during the Covid-19 pandemic
Lomax, H., Smith, K., McEvoy, J., Brickwood, E., Jensen, K. & Walsh, B., 1 Feb 2022, In: Families, Relationships and Societies. 11, 1, p. 19-37 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus) -
Rethinking Visual Arts-Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic
Lomax, H., Smith, K. & Percy-Smith, B., 1 Sep 2022, In: Sociological Research Online. 27, 3, p. 541-549 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation
Lomax, H. & Smith, K., 1 Sep 2022, In: Sociological Research Online. 27, 3, p. 559-568 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Corona Chronicles: Children researching their everyday lives, education & relationships during the coronavirus pandemic (CHEER): Evidence submitted to the Education Select Committee (Project Phase 3, March 2021 - Creative data by children)
Lomax, H. & Smith, K., 1 Mar 2021, (Submitted) 12 p.Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
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Datasets
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CHEER digital resources
Lomax, H. (Creator), Smith, K. (Creator) & Walsh, B. (Contributor), University of Huddersfield, 2020
Dataset
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HEER digital resources
Lomax, H. (Creator) & Smith, K. (Contributor), University of Huddersfield, 2020
DOI: 10.34696/es1k-0976, https://doi.org/10.34696%2Fes1k-0976
Dataset
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Playful Arts-based Methods for Child-centred Research during the Global Crisis
Helen Lomax (Speaker)
21 Jan 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Corona Chronicles - Children researching their everyday lives, education and relationships during the coronavirus pandemic (CHEER)
Helen Lomax (Speaker)
18 Mar 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Lomax and Smith (Dec 2020) Corona Chronicles - Education Select Committee evidence REF HSE0729667
Helen Lomax (Participant) & Kate Smith (Participant)
11 Dec 2020Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Lomax and Smith (Sept 2020) Corona Chronicles - Education Select Committee Evidence REF KTC729667
Helen Lomax (Participant) & Kate Smith (Participant)
30 Sep 2020Activity: Other activity types › Other
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‘Our Voices’ - an animation created with children during the 2020-2021 global pandemic.
Helen Lomax (Other) & Kate Smith (Other)
20 Mar 2020 → 30 Jul 2021Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press/Media
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Children researching their everyday lives during the coronavirus pandemic
27/10/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Child’s play? Keeping kids safe on the internet (CyGen)
26/02/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment