Dr Lydia Bracken participated in the International Journal of Children’s Rights UNCRC 30th Anniversary Conference, Thirty Years of Children’s Rights Scholarship: Taking Stock and Thinking Ahead, on 20 and 21 June 2019. At the conference, Lydia co-presented a paper on ‘The Child’s Right to Family Life: Shifting Sands and Social Science’ with Dr Conor O’Mahony of UCC School of Law. The paper will be published in a special edition of the International Journal of Children’s Rights later this year.