“The Board of Childwatch International recognizes the journal Childhoods Today as an excellent model to promote the development of young scholars and commits itself to encouraging submissions from its international network of child research institutions.” (26 October, 2007)

Childhoods Today is a new e-journal published, bi-annually in the first instance, by the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and supported by the Worldwide Universities Network.

The aim of the journal is to publish high quality empirical and theoretical work by up-and-coming researchers in the field of childhood studies and to provide a reference for others working in this and related fields.

Childhoods Today is an externally reviewed journal that is unique in providing an international forum designed exclusively for the publication of articles by postgraduate students (i.e. those studying for their MA, M.Phil. or PhD, as opposed to post-doctoral students) working in the field, which can be accessed by other interested postgraduates and academics.

Childhoods Today is edited by Professor Adrian L. James, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield and Norwegian Centre for Child Research (NOSEB), University of Trondheim.