Professor Tara Collins

Profile

Tara Collins has a Ph.D. from the University of London and has worked on international human rights since 1996. Her professional experience includes work for: universities in Canada, South Africa, Brazil, and Ireland; Canadian federal government (Department of Foreign Affairs and CIDA) and Parliament; and a national non-governmental organization. Research interests include child and youth participation, child protection, business, general measures of implementation, monitoring, and rights-based approaches. She serves as the Project Director for the International & Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP): https://www.torontomu.ca/iccrp

Research

Publications

• Collins, T.M. (2025). Child and Youth Participation in Child Protection Provincial Harm Reduction Policy Efforts in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, Child Abuse & Neglect, 107231, https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0145-2134(24)00624-0
  
• Collins, T.M. (2024). Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children And Youth. Elgar Studies in Human Rights series, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, See further: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/children-s-rights-in-professional-practices-with-children-and-youth-9781802202342.html
• Jamieson, J., Rizzini, I., Collins, T.M. & Wright, L.H.V. (2022). International perspectives on the participation of children and young people in the Global South, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 7:1-3, 56-74, https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2022.2050940
• Collins, T.M. Wright, L.H.V. (2022). The challenges for children’s rights in international child protection: Opportunities for transformation. World Development, 159, 106032, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106032
• Jamieson, J., Rizzini, I., Collins, T.M. & Wright, L.H.V. (2022). International perspectives on the participation of children and young people in the Global South, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2022.2050940
• Collins, T., Rizzini, I. & Mayhew, A. (2021), Fostering global dialogue: Conceptualisations of children's rights to participation and protection, Children & Society, 35(2): 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12437
• Collins, T.M., Sinclair, L., Zufelt, V. (2021). Children’s Rights to Participation and Protection: Examining Child and Youth Care College Curricula in Ontario, Child & Youth Services, 42:3, 268-297, DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2020.1790352
• Collins, T.M., Jamieson, L., Wright, L.H.V., Rizzini, I., Mayhew, A., Narang, J., Tisdall, E.K.M., Ruiz-Casares, M. (2020). Involving child and youth advisors in academic research about child participation: The Child and Youth Advisory Committees of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership, Children and Youth Services Review, 109, Article 104569, 1-9, DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104569
• Collins, T.M. (2019). The general measures of implementation: opportunities for progress with children’s rights, International Journal of Human Rights, 23(3): 338-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2018.1558976
• Collins, T.M. (2017). A child’s right to participate: Implications for international child protection, International Journal of Human Rights, 21(1), 14-46, DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2016.1248122.
• Collins, T.M., & Paré, M. (2016). A Child Rights-based Approach to Anti-Violence Efforts in Schools, International Journal of Children’s Rights 24(4), 764-802, doi 10.1163/15718182-02404005.

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