Karen Wells (Producer)
Professor Wells has over twenty years of experience in research on the intersection between international political economy and socio-cultural fields in the formation of childhood. She has published widely on this research including in her monographs Childhood in a Global Perspective (Policy, 3rd edition, 2021) and Childhood Studies: making young subjects (Polity, 2017) and Visual Cultures of Childhood (Rowman and Little 2020). She is book reviews editor of the journal Children’s Geographies, and a board member of the journal Global Studies of Childhood. She is currently involved in two significant book projects, as co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development and Bloomsbury’s forthcoming Handbook of Theory in Childhood Studies. She holds adjunct membership in the graduate faculty of the Graduate School at Rutgers University-Camden of the Childhood Studies department at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. She is PI of two global challenges research projects with British Academy, one on translanguaging in Amhara region, Ethiopia and one on community approaches to early learning in rural villages in West Africa.
Haroon Forde (Interviewer)
Dr. Haroon Forde is a British academic, researcher, and author specialized in film, television, and global childhood education. He currently serves as a Research Associate in the Department of Film and Television at the University of Bristol
Bartek Dziadosz (Filmmaker and editor)
Dr. Bartek Dziadosz is a filmmaker and media lecturer. He is the Director of the Derek Jarman Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. Bartek’s first feature, The Trouble with Being Human These Days (2013), was a hybrid documentary about Zygmunt Bauman and liquid modernity. He later co-directed The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016) with Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, and Christopher Roth. Bartek’s latest film, The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze, co-directed with Tilda Swinton, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and Telluride in 2024.