{"id":528,"date":"2018-03-16T12:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=528"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:29:00","slug":"tara-collins","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/people\/tara-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a PhD from the University of London and have worked on international human rights since 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My professional experience includes work for universities in Canada and Ireland, Canadian federal government and parliament, and a national non-governmental organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a member of the Board of Directors and the Program Committee for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/equitas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equitas: International Centre for Human Rights Education<\/a>. I am a Monitoring Committee member (and former board member) of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/rightsofchildren.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children<\/a>&nbsp;and Advisory Committee member of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landonpearson.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children\u2019s Rights<\/a>, at Carleton University. I also serve as an Editorial Board member for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.carleton.ca\/cjcr\/index.php\/cjcr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Journal for Children\u2019s Rights&nbsp;<\/a>. I am an active member of The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/icpnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Child Protection Network of Canada (ICPNC)<\/a>, where I belong to three separate working groups: monitoring and evaluation, children and work, and child participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Child rights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Child and youth participation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Child rights awareness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Child protection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monitoring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anti-violence efforts in schools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Business<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rights-based approaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontomu.ca\/child-youth-care\/about\/people\/faculty\/tara-collins\/\">Toronto Metropolitan University Bio&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Tara","cu_people_last_name":"Collins","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[31],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-528","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":" Professor ","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/528\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/landonpearsoncentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}