Professor Laura Lundy - Secretariat

Professor Laura Lundy is Professor Emerita of Children's Rights at Queen’s University, Belfast and Professor of Law at University College Cork. She has expertise in international children’s rights with a particular focus on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education rights and children’s right to participate in decision making and led the Expert Group on Student Participation in the Department of Education.

Professor Lundy has developed what has come to be called ‘The Lundy Model of Child Participation’ which a way of conceptualising a child's right to participation, as laid down in Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. She is Joint Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Children’s Rights and a qualified barrister at law.