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Voice & Agency
How children form, express, and negotiate opinions in spaces designed by adults.
Childhood Participation Lab
Taking children's participation in everyday life seriously.
We study how children shape — and are shaped by — family, school, and community life, and how research, design, and policy can better include their voices.
Research themes
Three intersecting lines of inquiry guide our work.
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Everyday Institutions
Family routines, classrooms, and neighborhoods as sites of childhood citizenship.
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Methods with Children
Participatory and ethical methods that treat children as co-researchers, not subjects.
About the lab
CHIP Lab is an interdisciplinary research group bringing together developmental psychology, sociology of childhood, education, and design. We collaborate with schools, families, and community organizations to understand participation as a lived, everyday practice — not an abstract right.
Our work is open by default: methods, instruments, and findings are shared so that practitioners and policymakers can use them.
Currently working on
- Family decision-makingLongitudinal study of how children co-shape family choices, ages 4–12.
- Classroom councilsMixed-methods evaluation of pupil-led governance in primary schools.
- Neighborhood mappingParticipatory mapping of public space with 8–11 year-olds.
Get in touch
Interested in collaborating, joining the lab, or inviting us into your school or community? We'd love to hear from you.