Child Vulnerability and Vulnerable Subjectivity: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives

Dagmar Kutsar, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Her research interests are in family, childhood and welfare research and policies. She has been a partner in several international research projects, such as EU 6FP PROFIT, IPROSEC, NoE EQUALSOC, EU FP7 FLOWS, and others. She has been a member of the Standing Committee of Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation, a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the National Associations Council of the European Sociological Association. She was an Expert on the EU 7FP Youth Social Inclusion Cluster at the European Commission, a member of the Advisory Group of the Widening Programme at the EU Horizon 2020 and an Advisory Group member of the UNICEF Report Card Nr16. Her recent co-edited books in English include Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe. The 'Catching Up' - A Myth or a Strategy?' (Routledge, 2010) and Local Welfare Policymaking in European Cities (Springer, 2015). She has guest-edited a special issue of the Population Review (Special Collection No. 8) in 2021.

Mai Beilmann, PhD, is Associate Professor of Empirical Sociology at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu. She has worked on various EU projects and the European Social Survey 2021, related to children's well-being, including youth skills, child vulnerability, urban policy innovations, migration challenges, active citizenship construction of European youth, and so on. She has publications in international peer-reviewed journals and in Estonian publications, including the Journal of Applied Youth Studies, Journal of Media Literacy Education, Journal of Social Science Education and has presented at conferences such as ISPCAN (International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect).

Oliver Nahkur, PhD, is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu. Oliver does research in quality of life studies, social indicators research, mental health and well-being, interpersonal violence and health politics and policy. He publishes regularly in peer-reviewed edited volumes as well as international journals on subjective well-being, impacts of migration on children's well-being, children's life satisfaction, and related topics. He is a member of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.

Dagmar Kutsar 博士是愛沙尼亞塔爾圖大學社會政策的副教授。她的研究興趣包括家庭、童年及福利研究與政策。她參與了多個國際研究項目，如歐盟第六框架計畫 PROFIT、IPROSEC、EQUALSOC 網絡、歐盟第七框架計畫 FLOWS 等。她曾是歐洲科學基金會社會科學常設委員會的成員，並擔任歐洲社會學協會全國協會理事會的執行委員會成員及主席。她曾擔任歐盟第七框架計畫青年社會包容性集群的專家，並是歐盟地平線2020擴展計畫諮詢小組的成員，以及 UNICEF 報告卡第16號的諮詢小組成員。她最近共同編輯的英文書籍包括《中東歐社會科學的國際化：追趕 - 一種神話還是策略？》（Routledge, 2010）和《歐洲城市的地方福利政策制定》（Springer, 2015）。她於2021年擔任《人口評論》（特刊第8號）的特別期刊客座編輯。

Mai Beilmann 博士是塔爾圖社會研究所的實證社會學副教授。她參與了多個歐盟項目及2021年歐洲社會調查，研究與兒童福祉相關的議題，包括青年技能、兒童脆弱性、城市政策創新、移民挑戰、歐洲青年積極公民身份的建構等。她在國際同行評審期刊及愛沙尼亞出版物上發表過多篇文章，包括《應用青年研究期刊》、《媒體素養教育期刊》、《社會科學教育期刊》，並在如 ISPCAN（國際兒童虐待與忽視預防協會）等會議上發表過演講。

Oliver Nahkur 博士是塔爾圖社會研究所的研究員。Oliver 的研究領域包括生活品質研究、社會指標研究、心理健康與福祉、人際暴力及健康政治與政策。他定期在同行評審的編輯書籍及國際期刊上發表有關主觀福祉、移民對兒童福祉的影響、兒童生活滿意度及相關主題的文章。他是國際生活品質研究協會的成員。