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Dr Cadhla O'Sullivan

Cadhla

Research Fellow, the Children's Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University, Australia

Email: cadhla.osullivan@anu.edu.au

Profile

Cadhla is Research Fellow at the Children’s Policy Centre, at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. Her research interests currently revolve around issues of child justice and children’s human rights. Her PhD research, with Queen’s University Belfast, involved participatory research with children and young people on peacebuilding and peacekeeping in Colombia. In her current role, Cadhla is working on a transformative program of research, titled More for Children, which aims to understand, assess and respond to child poverty in Australia from a child standpoint. Cadhla’s research expertise involve rights-based, child-centred research methodologies with children and young people on challenging issues. 

Research

Publications

  • Bessell, S., O'Sullivan, C., Rose, T., Lang, M. and Avrahamzon, T., 2025. Measuring Multidimensional Child Poverty in Australia. Australian Economic Review, 58, pp.S22-S35.
  • Bessell, S. and O’Sullivan, C., 2025. Learning for a healthy life now and in the future. Children Australia.
  • O’Sullivan, C., Bessell, S., Bob, Crescent Moon, Orange Sharpie, & Sam (2025). Learning in and beyond school. Children Australia, 47(2), 3081. doi.org/10.61605/cha_3081
  • O'Sullivan, C. and Bessell, S., Listening to child refugees and asylum seekers in Australia-what matters most.
  • Bessell, S. and O'Sullivan, C., 2024. More for Children: Children's Experiences of Poverty.
  • Bessell, S. and O'Sullivan, C., 2024. More for Children: Rights-Based Methodology for Research with Children on Poverty.
  • O'Sullivan, C., Taylor, L., Pineda-Marin, C., Sandoval-Escobar, M., Toro, R., Barreto, M.L., Alfonso, D. and Niño, J.L., 2023. Artesanos de Paz: Promoting everyday peacebuilding among children and youth through a participatory theater-based intervention in Colombia. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 29(3), p.213.
  • O'Sullivan, C., 2022. 'Your life looks like a fairytale': Challenges in building rapport with children and youth in contexts of protracted conflict.

Expertise

Children's human rights, child social justice issues, peace and conflict, child wellbeing, qualitative research methodologies with children and youth.
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