We are delighted to announce that our project has just won the poster prize at the Society for Legal Scholars conference in York, which was attended by our project leader, Dr. Dawn Watkins. The poster, “Adventures with Lex… The Story So Far”, gives an overview of our project, a summary of the data collection, and […]
Things are charging ahead here in the Law in Children’s Lives project. Just to recap, last autumn we worked with children, experts and games company Enigma to design and build our tablet game ‘Adventures with Lex’. The game is a fun way (alien included) to find out what children understand about the Law. In March, […]
Well – what an exciting week this has been. On Friday I travelled up to Newcastle to collect our 40 tablets from Enigma, newly loaded up with our game – Adventures with Lex. This journey involved a road trip, a rickety train trip and a walk on foot trundling empty suitcases down an everlasting flight […]
Lex (and Rex) are key characters in the game we are developing as part of our ESRC-funded project, Law in Children’s Lives. Adventures with Lex is a tablet-based game being developed by our project team at the University of Leicester. The game is being used as a research tool to explore children’s decision making processes when faced […]
The 20th November 2014 was the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) by the UN General Assembly. The writing of this convention was an incredibly important moment for children across the world, because it was the first time that children were recognised specifically as […]
Welcome to the Law in Children’s Lives project blog. This exciting project was initiated by Dr Dawn Watkins, of the University’s School of Law, and is being funded by the ESRC. The team, including two dedicated Research Associates, started work at the start of September 2014, and since then it’s been all go. The project […]
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