Mrs Kristen Hope

Profile

Kristen is a PhD candidate at the University of Bath whose work is informed by her upbringing in a settler colonial Caribbean community, studies in Arabic and a decade contributing to international development and humanitarian programmes in South West Asia and North Africa. Building on participatory research and advocacy initiatives with children and young people, particularly those affected by displacement and violence, her doctoral research explores child protection in humanitarian contexts through feminist and decolonial lenses.

Research

Publications

Hope, K. and Singh, P., (2025) Knitting methodologies with decolonial and PAR threads: Critical reflections for participatory research with children and young people in the ‘Global South’. Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights, Special Issue : Decolonial research with children : conceptual and practical approaches (forthcoming)

Singh, P., Hope, K., Bhatt, D., Jamarkatel, J., Ferdous, S., Raiyan, S., Aboyade, A., Rijal, A., Aarwal, P. (2025) An intergenerational exploration of participation, power and praxis in re-imaging children's right to a clean healthy and sustainable environment. International Journal of Children’s Rights, Special Issue : Youth Climate Justice (forthcoming)

Hope, K., Bhatt, D., Jamarkatel, J., King, B. Niroula, O., Jamarkatel, J., Thaker, S., Rijal, A., Bhattarai, P., Sarder, R., Dahal, S. and Singh, P. (2024) Poetry for Rights! Intergenerational co-creation for child rights scholarship. Amicus Curiae, 5(3), pp.531-563. https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v5i3.5711

Lee, L. M., Wright, L. H. V., Machado, C., Niyogi, O., Singh, P., Shields, S., & Hope, K. (2022). Online Intergenerational Participatory Research: Ingredients for Meaningful Relationships and Participation. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 3 (3, Youth-themed Special Issue). https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.38764

Lundy, L., Byrne, B., Lloyd, K., Templeton, M., Brando, N., Corr, M., Heard, E., Holland, L., MacDonald, M., Marshall, G., McAlister, S., McNamee, C., Orr, K., Schubotz, D., Symington, E., Walsh, C., Hope, K., Singh, P., Neill, G., & Wright, L. H. V. (2021). Life Under Coronavirus: Children’s Views on their Experiences of their Human Rights, The International Journal of Children's Rights, 29(2), 261-285.

O’Leary, P., Cameron, C.M., Lakhani, A., Osborne, J. M., de Souza, L., Hope, K., Naimi, M. S., Khan, H., Jawad, Q., S., Majidi, S. (2018) ‘Violence Against Children in Afghanistan: Community Perspectives’, Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518760610

O’Leary, P., Cameron, C.M., Lakhani, A., Osborne, J. M., de Souza, L., Hope, K., Naimi, M. S., Khan, H., Jawad, Q., S., Majidi, S. (2017) ‘Violence against children in Afghanistan: Concerns and opportunities for positive change’ Child Abuse and Neglect, Vol76 , pp.95-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.10.010

Campistol, C., Hope, K., Colliou, Y., Aeibi, M., (2017) ‘Customary Justice for children in Egypt: An Overview of the Situation in the Governorate of Assyut’, Restorative Justice: An International Journal, Vol 5, pp.29-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/20504721.2017.1294791

Expertise