UNICEF Innocenti Podcasts

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series...

In celebration of UNICEF Innocenti's 30th anniversary - and our triple anniversary year - we sit down with three of our office's longest serving staff members - who have seen it all - to look back at what stood out to them in the last 30 years - important moments, impactful research, and impressive people - and what the future for UNICEF's Office of Research looks like. Listen in our fun fireside...

In this special hour-long edition of UNICEF Innocenti's podcast series, we sit down with our #LEADINGMINDS mental health youth leaders for a round-table discussion about their lived experiences with mental health and the urgent action needed in their countries and around the world to support youth mental health better. Learn about the inaugural 2019 Leading Minds conference on mental health and ho...

Celebrating five years as a research manager working on cash transfers for the Transfer Project at UNICEF Innocenti, Tia Palermo joins us on our latest Research Matters podcast to share her insights and takeaways from her tenure. As much of Tia's recent portfolio has focused on cash transfers and gender dynamics, we discuss where this is going and the recent findings from UNICEF Innocenti research...

In our latest podcast we speak with UNICEF's Brendan Ross, a Child Protection Manager with UNICEF's office in Somalia who worked with the Office of Research to commission research on what drives children to migrate and what the realities of their experiences are before, during and after migration. This is exploratory and first-of-its kind research is the first of a multi-phase study to investigate...

Why is no one taking paternity leave in Japan? Why is there a gap in where parental leave ends and affordable childcare begins? How could self-employed people benefit from family-friendly policies? In our latest podcast, we talk to report authors Kat Chzhen and Anna Gromada about UNICEF Innocenti's report on family-friendly policies in the OECD and EU, explaining how they ranked the countries usin...

In celebration of the International Day for Sport for Development and Peace, our podcast shares insights on impact and inclusion from the first ever report on sport for development for children. We sit down with our education researchers Juliana Zapata and Sarah Fuller who worked on our new report: 'Getting into the Game: Understanding the evidence for child-focused sport for development’ to learn...

In this episode of UNICEF Innocenti's Research Matters podcast, we’re talking to our resident expert on all things digital for children, Daniel Kardefelt Winther, who leads our research programme on Children & Digital Technology, about children and screentime – Is screen time really bad for child development? Is what kids are doing on screens more important than how much time kids spend on screens...

In this episode of UNICEF Innocenti's Research Matters podcast, we're talking to Alessandra Ipince – who has coordinated this year’s Best of UNICEF Research competition. The "Best of UNICEF Research 2018" publication features 12 of the year’s most ground-breaking and innovative research for children around the world. In this podcast we'll discuss the selection process - what research won and why?...

In this edition of our podcast on research matters for children, we talk to our expert on migration, Bina D’Costa, about her latest research - from Cox's Bazar to Somaliland - and what we can expect for the 2018 Global Compact for Migration. We discuss UNICEF Innocenti’s latest research projects and the important lessons learned in Bina’s last year with us, as well as what’s next for research for...

For this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, UNICEF Innocenti's podcast on research matters invites Amber Peterman and Tia Palermo from the Transfer Project to discuss their recent research linking poverty and gender-based violence, unpacking evidence of how social protection has the potential to mitigate gbv. 2018's #16days has a unique theme for 2018: #HearMeToo. #HearMeToo...

In this edition of UNICEF Innocenti's podcast series on research matters, we sit down with the authors of our 15th Report Card: An Unfair Start, to discuss the research process and findings on educational inequalities for children in rich countries. How did the report authors choose the title for the report: An Unfair Start? Why is this topic relevant to look at now? How did they rank the countrie...

Niger: the nowhere land where children on the move are someone else’s problem as Europe and North Africa tighten their borders. Sarah Crowe, Senior UNICEF Communications Specialist on Migration, narrates her article which was originally published by Huffington Post. See the full text of the article here: https://blogs.unicef.org/evidence-for-action/niger-europes-new-frontier-for-children-on-the-mo...

We chat with Dominic Richardson and Despina Karamperidou from our Education Team about recent on ongoing projects and publications. We discuss UNICEF Innocenti's Time to Teach project, as well as the role of private partnerships in achieving SDG 4. Find out more about the Education Team's work here: https://www.unicef-irc.org/research/education/

We chat with UNICEF Innocenti's Chief of Research Facilitation & Knowledge Management, Kerry Albright, about the new evidence Mega-Map on child well-being, created in partnership with the Campbell Collaboration. The Mega-Map will be launched at an #EvidenceForChildren Roundtable in New York on 27 & 28 June 2018. Ahead of the launch, Kerry speaks to us about how the Mega-Map was created, where the...

Innocenti's Chief of Programmes, Prerna Banati, chats with us about her recently published 'Handbook of Adolescent Development Research and its Impact on Global Policy'. We discuss adolescent development research - and its shortcomings - to date, as well as exploring new research revealed in the book. Prerna shares her insights on how this evidence can be used to inform better policy-making. You c...

Fabio Veras Soares, Economist of the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)talks about the importance of designing tailored social protection programmes to emergency situations.

Ugo Gentilini, Senior Economist at the World Bank, talks about the challenges posed to urban settings in responding to social protection needs of the most vulnerable populations

Tilmann Brück, Founder of the International Security and Research Center, talks about how the mounting crises are blurring line between humanitarian and development work

Andrew Kardan, Oxford Policy Management researcher, talks about the challenges that data collection in fragile situations poses to researchers.

Sheree Bennet, Technical Advisor at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) talks about the challenges of providing social protection for women and girls in fragile contexts.

Paolo Verme Senior Economist at the World Bank talks about the challenges of meeting the social protection needs of refugee and migrant populations which the humanitarian and development sector are facing.

Bina D'Costa migration research expert at UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti talks about why the new publication "Protected on Paper? An analysis of Nordic country responses to asylum-seeking children" is such an important contribution toward improving the way states manage the unique and urgent needs of refugee and migrant children. The new report analyses legal and procedural frameworks in Denm...

In our last podcast we spoke with Nikola Balvin about The Adolescent Brain compendium, what it is, how it came about, and why it’s important for research on adolescents today. Listen to the brief overview here: https://soundcloud.com/unicef-office-of-research/the-adolescent-brain-overview In this follow-up podcast, we dive a bit deeper into the research with one of the compendium's contributors, R...