Dimitra Hartas is an Associate Professor in Special Educational Needs and Disability at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick and a Chartered Psychologist by the British Psychological Society.  Dimitra has written a number of academic articles on issues related to childhood, children’s voice and rights, disability, parenting and children’s access to public spaces. Dimitra has recently conducted a large-scale research into poverty, parenting and child development, and is interested in exploring current assumptions about parenting and socio-economic inequality.

In a recent book, The Right to Childhoods: Critical Perspectives on Rights, Difference and Knowledge in a Transient World published by Continuum, Dimitra explored modern childhoods and children’s social ecologies, the contradictory nature of children’s rights and notions of disability as difference, and has argued for a shared understanding of children as agents and citizens.